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Just got some chicks and I need some....

You can try selling them, but I don't think the pet store will be interested. You can try though. The black one sounds like it might be a mutt, which is ok, but if the white ones are cornish they won't make very good pets because of their health problems. This is why I don't feed birds to my snakes. :rolleyes:

If it really comes down to not wanting to kill them, you'll probably be able to give them to someone who raises chickens, or maybe sell them for a dollar or so.

lol CAV.
 
The paetstore I was thinking about deals with snakes, lizards, spiders, roaches, mice, rats, hamsters, guinie pigs, gerbils, chinchillas, ferrets, and all sorts of parrots such as maccaws and cockatoos. They will probably take them.
 
Sorry Rep-Ad...Susuitl is right on target. A chick is not a parrot. Those chicks need to be somewhere with no drafts at a steady temp of not less than 75º. A lamp with a warm spot is best...like a snake they'll find their happy place. But...you're planning on keeping a creature who loves their freedom stuffed in a drafty pen, where it gets no sunlight, nor greens, nor worms and can't satisfy it's natural urge and desire to scratch and peck. I appreciate the desire for a pet, but a chicken just isn't much of a friendly pet kept in unhappy conditions. Please...stick with the parrot.
 
CAV said:
"Stop, I say stop encouragin the boy! You'll fill his noggin with silly, I say silly notions!"
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Cav, you have me in tears! :grin01: Which is better than my jaw on the floor when I read the rest of this thread. LMAO
 
Another idea is spray-paint them green, buy them a perch and teach them to talk. Obviously, Foghorn Leghorn will come almost naturally, play the tapes. If this doesn't work, a pet hounddog and a chicken hawk with glasses will really complete your barnyard, though. Best wishes.
 
CAV said:
"Stop, I say stop encouragin the boy! You'll fill his noggin with silly, I say silly notions!"
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Yanno, Gary, you sound just like Senator Hollings. ;)

regards,
jazz
 
I am going to feed the chicks to my corns, bloods, and my brand new cali king. I know that they make corn poop "runny and smelly". I know that kings eat anything and everything so that may work. I got these chicks for free from a guy at the herp society I belong too. The chicks are in a box with a red light above them. The temps go as low ad 76 and as kigh as 87 and they all snuggle up at the warmest area and sleep. I will slaughter all of them tonight that the pet store won't take.
 
Sounds like you've made a good decision! Their box sounds like a good setup for keeping chicks humanely too.
 
CAV, dude, I have never laughed so hard at 6:30 AM!

Just make sure you don't use too hot of a light! :flames:
 

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This boy's making more noise than a couple of skeletons throwing a fit on a tin roof.

"Hey that's a joke son, don't ya get it? I made a funny son and your not laughin'. Whispers: That boy, I say that boy reminds me of Paul Revere's ride. A little light in the belfry."
 

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Sisuitl,

Kudos to you for giving reptile_addict some good information and helping him understand what would be entailed with keeping a chick and some dangers to watch out for. The information on this end was appreciated, as well.

Seems like a perfectly good thread to me for a corn snake forum. We have threads on raising mice. :shrugs: I suppose this could always be under the "Feeder Forum", but basic husbandry could include chicks, too.
 
I used to raise chickens and can offer a little insight on this. Baby chicks are not like baby birds they dont come out dependent on regurid food. They go right to pecking it up off the ground. They will require alot of attention. A 10 gallon aqaurium and a heat lamp will work for all of about 2 weeks and then this thing is going to need some room to roam. It will turn into a pullett require fresh water and scratch every day. It will be almost impossiable to sex it until it gets around a year old and either starts laying or crowing. A CHICKEN IS NOT AN INDOOR PET. They will eat anything they can get in there little beaks even stryofoam. You can email me if youd like i can answer some more questions.
 
Actually I sex my day old chicks with 95% accuracy, and I probably hatch around 200 each year. It requires some peeking at their vents to be that accurate though. I disagree with the one year, the gender on mine is very obvious once they hit 4-6 weeks.
 
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