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Then if you have heat, go ahead and make your nest. But be forewarned, it will get gross and stinky, hold moisture and smother chicks, Your call.

I don't know for sure what you want me to say. Can you do it? Probably. Should you do it? Most definitely NOT. But I've told you all I can - there is no life sustaining heat in a lump of towels, whether you call it a nest or a fort or whatever. It's not safe. I have a feeling you're going...

Well, I guess you can make a nest out of towels but they aren't warm, will get ridiculously poopy and I'd never do that in a million years. Chicks need heat and they don't produce enough on their own. As far as making your own hay, I guess you could cut down some tall grasses and let them dry...

I've raised 3 batches of chicks and one single using a towel.....but it depends on how you want to use the towel. You can't very well just wad it up and stuff it in a corner...they'll smother themselves or manage to get hung up in the fringes or find some other way to do themselves in, not to...

When I had them in the house, I didn't use hay or straw...just pine shavings and a towel. This is a video of my chicks with Mama Heating Pad while they were in the house. The video starts out dark... Oh, I forgot to say: Welcome to BYC!!

Try this.....I raise chicks outdoors with a heating pad, a metal frame, a towel over that and straw on top, underneath and all around.. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/yes-you-certainly-can-brood-chicks-outdoors As far as I'm concerned, raising chicks with a heating pad is as natural as...