Comments on: Chicks

By: Anne :-)

Anne :-) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 04:16:30 +0000

Now I’m disturbed knowing that day old chicks are used to be fed in zoos….

By: solraya

solraya — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:40:11 +0000

MM, you seem to be curious about how to raise them :)

If my blog doesn’t help you much, I’d be glad to have chicken talk with you on how to pasture them, to give you clean and tasty chickens on your table.

By: jack

jack — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:37:10 +0000

thanks for sharing MM. my first time to see chicks with light to dark brown color… :)

By: tonceq

tonceq — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:36:09 +0000

whoa! you learn something new everyday! :)

By: shalimar

shalimar — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:23:07 +0000

My saffer crew mate grew up eating supermarket food, it was a shock for her when I took her shopping in Italy that the chickens had head and feet hahaha.

So I had to describe to her from eggs to chicks to chicken cacciatore :-)

By: Isa Garchitorena

Isa Garchitorena — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:30:15 +0000

@Isabel : nice name by the way.

Day old chicks are a common food staple in most zoos. They are usually from hatcheries that then send the female chicks (chick chicks?) to egg farms. The male chicks are considered surplus so are very economical for zoos to use, and because they are only a day old, the yolk hasn’t been reabsorbed yet so it’s also very nutritious.

What’s amazing is how they can differentiate the sexes at that age!

By: marilen

marilen — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 23:11:24 +0000

Grew up in a household that had a poultry in the backyard – so am genetically coded to love these barnyard folk from incubating to hatching and loving tinolang manok! Other respondent said – MM you are our window to the world – yup!

By: GayeN

GayeN — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:18:29 +0000

our chickens – native, sunshine and another variety – all have multi-colored chicks ranging from light brown to black. The hens lay multi-colored eggs too – the darker colored hens lay the darker shade of brown eggs. We have so much fresh eggs right now my mom is just giving them away. :))

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:14:02 +0000

isabel, I guess the fresher the better. Yowks. I am so glad I am not low on the food chain. It would be kinda cool if dinosaurs still roamed Manila and went sniffing about munching on humans for midday snacks. They would have to eat several dozen people to feel full. It would be a very effective way of controlling the size of the population… :)

By: isabel

isabel — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 02:06:52 +0000

manila zoo feeds chicks like these to the residents in the reptile house… we went there during feeding time yesterday… it was a bit of a shock!