baby chickens?

[ilovelizards]

can my tegu eat baby chickens without a problem i saw some healthy ones for sale at the local feed store and was thinking of maby getting him one for a treat.would it be ok?

 

[Bubblz Calhoun]

I don't feed live but yeah,.. they love chicks more so than rats and quail for mine. Even more than chicks,.. rabbit. But too many chicks can give them mud butt.

 

[got10]

I don't see why not. Just kill them first as not stress out the feeder animals . I sometimes go down to the Halal market and get the birds they don't think are "HALAL" enough to be slaughtered for market and get them at dirt prices. I also get the innards and heads from the animals that have been slaughtered as well for like 10 dollars for a five gallon bucket. The best time to go is on Saturday because that is the day they are the most busy. . Plus they don't want to pay the trash man to take it away so they will sell you all of it if they could.

 

[tommyboy]

I do chicks a couple times a month and they love it! @bubblz....."mud butt" that was pretty funny!

 

[monstruo-the-tegu]

i am going to try giving my tegu chicks when hes bigger

 

[ilovelizards]

thanks guys

 

[james.w]

I just fed mine 2 chicks today.

 

[dragonmetalhead]

Is there anywhere you can purchase frozen or prekilled chicks?

 

[ilovelizards]

Is there anywhere you can purchase frozen or prekilled chicks?

i kill humanily mice all the time chicks cant be to difficult/diffrent..but to answer your question no

 

[xocrieox]

Rodentpro sells them i think

 

[james.w]

Rodent pro does sell them.

 

[dragonmetalhead]

Is there anywhere you can purchase frozen or prekilled chicks?

i kill humanily mice all the time chicks cant be to difficult/diffrent..but to answer your question no

How does one humanely kill a chick?

 

[ilovelizards]

Rodent pro does sell them.

I know with 50$+shipping..

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Is there anywhere you can purchase frozen or prekilled chicks?

i kill humanily mice all the time chicks cant be to difficult/diffrent..but to answer your question no

How does one humanely kill a chick?

and maby something like this but smaller..still not sure yet..
http://www.ehow.com/how_8795840_kill-chicken-fast.html

 

[turtlepunk]

I don't feed live but yeah,.. they love chicks more so than rats and quail for mine. Even more than chicks,.. rabbit. But too many chicks can give them mud butt.

OOOH! thanks Bubblz!!! Spartacus has been having the squirts and I really couldn't figure out why, temps are fine, humidity is fine, but I have been giving him a chick every week! I'm guessing this is why he has mud butt?
makes sense to me, he never had this problem before.

 

[Dana C]

Is there anywhere you can purchase frozen or prekilled chicks?

i kill humanily mice all the time chicks cant be to difficult/diffrent..but to answer your question no

How does one humanely kill a chick?

Put a chunk of dry ice in a sealable bucket. Leave it sealed for a few minutes to let the co2 gather at the bottom and put the chicks in and put the lid on the bucket. The chicks will be unconcious within a minute and dead in another. They don't feel any pain or discomfort. That is the way or at least is simular to how the big rodent providers kill theirs. I think they use bottled co2.

 

[ilovelizards]

Is there anywhere you can purchase frozen or prekilled chicks?

i kill humanily mice all the time chicks cant be to difficult/diffrent..but to answer your question no

How does one humanely kill a chick?

Put a chunk of dry ice in a sealable bucket. Leave it sealed for a few minutes to let the co2 gather at the bottom and put the chicks in and put the lid on the bucket. The chicks will be unconcious within a minute and dead in another. They don't feel any pain or discomfort. That is the way or at least is simular to how the big rodent providers kill theirs. I think they use bottled co2.

were sells dryed ice?

 

[dragonmetalhead]

And wouldn't the dry ice burn the chick and potentially make it inedible?

 

[Bubblz Calhoun]

I don't feed live but yeah,.. they love chicks more so than rats and quail for mine. Even more than chicks,.. rabbit. But too many chicks can give them mud butt.

OOOH! thanks Bubblz!!! Spartacus has been having the squirts and I really couldn't figure out why, temps are fine, humidity is fine, but I have been giving him a chick every week! I'm guessing this is why he has mud butt?
makes sense to me, he never had this problem before.

Not a problem,.. I hope that's it for Spartacus since it's any easy fix. When ever chicks are on the menu for mine they're offered with something else. It's pretty much the same with too much of any meaty meals with out whole prey after a while, especially poultry.

To the Op and Dragonmetalhead I've never tried it but I don't think they actually come into contact with the Hot Ice. There's different ways to do it but you can put the DI in a separate container with little holes in it. Place that container into the bucket and then the animals so there's no contact.

 

[naturboy87]

i have 10 chickens that lay furtil eggs. one egg going in the incubator every day and one chick cumming out it every day also . Works grate

 

[laurarfl]

You can buy DI at some Publix stores, Penguin Ice, or run a Google Search for a local provider. Since DI can be $$, buy a number of chicks, euthanize, then freeze.