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    Hey Lyle, Thanks so much for the tips! Really appreciate it! No pasty toes yet - Im using Pine bedding pellets - they are compressed pellets that kind of turn into saw dust if they get wet. Im just getting extra poop off wing feathers & backs, where chicks have brushed or huddled against pasty...
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    Night, thanks again! In Australia, south coast of NSW.
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    Yep they will! Am in process of building a more caged indoor coop for them until they 10weeks old. Thansk again!
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    The black wire hanging down is temp probe. It is at chick head height....They mostly hanging out under heat light rather than brooder....Anyway, two heat plates too, hopefully the answer. Really am soo grateful for your help!
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    Yep, lol! A rock, It was so I could lower a cardboard roofing if it was cold - They could still come out from it into open space, but rock was to lower & insulate roof if needed overnight. I will raise the heat light for now & remove once 2nd brooder arrives tomo too.
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    They are eating the spilt crumble/chick starter. I do have grit - should I add it to their bedding? I have feeder arriving tomo too. Similar style to the water feeder.
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    Yep they all fit under brood plate - But I have ordered another one arriving tomo. (thank goodness for Amazon ;-) The brood plate is working as you suggest, I was worried the temp around the brood heater wasnt warm enough. It prob gets to 12/15C in the house at night, we live in older home...
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    Thank you sooo much BigBlue Hen! I am incredibly grateful for the help & advise! I added a pic above. Do you think if i remove the heat light the brooder plate will be enough? it is 17C here today, supposed to get down to 10C tonight. The are living in my dining room at the moment, we have an...
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    Debbie I am sooo grateful for your reply! I added pic of chick area. I was worried that just having the brooder plate wasnt enough space for the 14 of them, so added the heat light. I also thought they would naturally just move out of heat...they have plenty of space....guess Im wrong. I will...
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    Hey :) I have a mix of 14 chicks approx 6 days old. Wyandotte's, Aracuna's, Sicilian Buttercups, Cuckoo Marans. Being kept indoors at the moment. They are in a large space with a heat plate in one corner & a heat light in another. They have lots of space & opportunity to move away from heat if...
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