Was joking with someone online during my 'chickwatch' night about needing cameras, and she got all excited. SHE wants to watch chick-cam, too! She started coming up with a whole plan for me to install cameras, post them to... some site where people pay to watch... livestreaming fluffy butts...
That could be. I figured, in my case, that they were still so young they hadn't really imprinted on the brooder as 'home'. I'm pretty new to chickens, still, but I know with some wild herd animals a female will go off, give birth, and bring the offspring back at about three days old - when it's...
I was thinking night before last how much I need some cameras in the coop and run... I just put some chicks out, too, in the isolation/integration pen. Three days old! They have heat, it's warm out - the heat goes off during the day, it's so warm, and they get a bottle of ice in there instead...