Oh water gets spilled all day ! They stand on it all the time and knock it over. They also do the same thing with the thing that holds their food . I tried putting the water on a small block , thinking it would keep them off of it , but it's even worse now .
I wasn't sure how to individually answer to each response . The chicks are only 3 weeks and I'm not sure if we should love them out yet , it's still cold at night . We don't have any adults chickens to help them out . We were forced to start over from scratch ..
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I am using the wood shavings the fees store picked out for me . Would you all mind describing what you keep your chicks in ? Maybe we need ours in something different .
We just brought home 6 chicks and my husband made them an area to sleep in that's a large plastic bin with a wire top and their heating lamp. They are SO stinky . I'm cleaning it out every two days and it stinks up my laundry room . Is this pretty normal ? When we had our last batch is chicks I...