Jeff, what's your feelings on electrolytes and vitamin packages for baby chicks? Do they need it?
They shouldn't need it, these foil, pouch pack electrolytes or stuff that, when I read down through the label there's too many chlorides. Okay, there's sodium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium chloride. Folks, those are all salts, and they're designed to go into the bloodstream quickly. There's a time and a place for electrolytes, if you detect some dehydration, and you can see that by skin. You can look at their feet and see that.
You can see around their eyes if their eyes are a little bit drawn in or sunken in from normal, if they're stressed. They just sell those electrolyte packs like crazy but, do we really need them? No. We need really good clean water. You can put a little apple cider vinegar in it if you want. We put the homemade electrolyte mix out there works as good as anything you're gonna buy in a foil pouch. But just don't do it because you think you're supposed to do it. Do it for the right reasons.