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I've given them chick crumb, withou oats, and grit. They started eating it right away. They've also just had a warm bum soak and I put oil on their vents. The two that poorly are huddling on the hot water bottle. They were cheeping very loudly, but have calmed since their soak. There was no...

OK, I'll clean and oil them now and get grit when we go to town later.

Besides the messy bums, their vents are protruding and they're squatting without passing anything. This is the first time we've had chicks indoors, and we had to get them in fast on day 1 because the hen attacked and killed two. A friend showed us how to rig up a brooder with a hamster cage we...

I have chicks being brooded in the house since their hen rejected them. The weather was hot enough to put them out in the grass under the wire top of a hamster cage (with a brick on top of course) so they can scratch in the dirt for a few hours. The last few days have been raining, so they've...