Show hard boiled eggs safe food for baby chicks it is common practice to feed the infertile eggs tested out from tile the incubator to baby chicks in so doing it incurs the danger of infecting the chicks with disease formerly called bacillary white diarrhea where eggs form a part of the chicks diet they should be boiled for at least five minutes and preferably longer tills this belling will destroy the germ of the dreaded chick disease and then it Is a perfectly safe and good practice to feed the boiled eggs to baby chicks one should not run the risk of infecting the brood by feeding tho raw eggs |