Okay so my chicks are three weeks old and it is plenty hot here so I moved them out to the pen area of my big chickens. They have a run made of half inch hardware cloth on the top and three sides. On the end is an old rabbit cage I placed a board over covered in plastic that drapes down over the sides. They have their heat lamp still and I put a fan out there for during the hot afternoons. They love it running around and scratching and pecking. Well the other day I noticed something strange and I've been trying to get a picture but they stop every time I walk out there, maybe someone else can explain it. I noticed my two roosters standing along the chick's run so I was watching to see if they were being aggressive towards the chicks, I wouldn't say there was any aggression. What they do is the chicks will be lined up along the run and the roosters walk along and, from what I can see, touch the chicks beaks through the fence. The chicks don't seem to be bothered since they come running like for food when the roosters come. And this morning I noticed Blondie laying next to the run so I watched for awhile, then I seen them, there were like four chicks curled up on the other side of the hardware cloth. I moved toward the kitchen window to get a better angle and yep, he was leaned up on one side and they were curled up to him on the other. I've never raised chicks this young since I was a child and I don't remember the roosters ever being nice or safe around chicks. But these two seem to pay allot of attention to the chicks, is this normal and is it a good thing or a bad thing?