Aww, they are so CUTE! They're sleeping & from the look of it, you're warming them with a heating pad? IF so you'll find they are alot quieter. calm & not so skittish. I used to use a heat lamp, when I switched to the MHP they learned the difference with night & day. They were alot quieter with MHP than lamp. You're doing great, enjoy &
I am an absolute believer in heating pads after reading about them with some BYC posters. Since moving to HP's, I have quieter and calmer chicks. They do soooo much better. I make an HP "sandwich": one HP on the bottom and one on top as a "roof" with increasingly bigger things as spacers so chicks can waddle into between them. One BYC user made a u shaped metal frame out of hardware cloth and that's what I move to as they get bigger. In the left side picture 1-3 day olds in a big plastic bin w/HP "sandwich". They are cuddled and very quiet. Right now, I'm using the cups from our coffee thermoses as spacers in the middle with rolled up dishtowels on each end as spacers. They actively eat, drink and poop, cheep and peck at each other as per usual and sometimes lay in the top of the HP "roof" and seem pretty comfortable (picture on right). I have much less frantic cheeping. I put small digital thermometers between the HP and on top just to keep track of temp. Low seems to work the best but I keep my chicks in the house until they are about a month old then out to a protected feed room. You might have to bump up the heat to medium on one of the pads if they are in a barn or coop. No more heat lamps for me. HPs are safer, use way less electricity and are more like a hen and my chicks seem much more content.Aww, they are so CUTE! They're sleeping & from the look of it, you're warming them with a heating pad? IF so you'll find they are alot quieter. calm & not so skittish. I used to use a heat lamp, when I switched to the MHP they learned the difference with night & day. They were alot quieter with MHP than lamp. You're doing great, enjoy &
