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[3KillerBs]

We are one week old and exploring our new home.

I set them down next to the water and they all ran off and found the food. LOL

I have seen a few of them drinking and it's the same waterer they had in the other brooder so they should find it rapidly. I didn't like the long feeder because you can only refill it by putting new feed on top of old. When they get big enough I'll have 2 round feeders.

BTW, in case anyone is worried, a chick cannot get stuck behind the door board. There is a brick back there specifically to prevent them from getting trapped.

 

[3KillerBs]

Individual photos. Very bad photos because the chicks were struggling to get loose and I couldn't see my phone screen in the sun. But all healthy and happy with no more pasty butt to be found.

 

[Sally PB]

Still so darn cute!!!

 

[3KillerBs]

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[3KillerBs]

I went out to change to a warmer bulb for the night and found them piled in the corner instead of under the lamp.

I changed the bulb and sat there with my headlamp on bright in order to see if I could get them to move around and find the heat. No go, so I started scooping up handfuls of chicks to put them into the warm place. Then I turned my lamp off and read on my phone for 10 minutes or so in order to let them settle down.

 

[3KillerBs]

This morning, in the pre-dawn gloom, I found them moving around the brooder. I left the bulb in night position since it's the coldest time of the day, but half-opened the supplemental vents.

I'm a little nervous because I'm at work and the 15yo is at school so I'll have to depend on my 21yo to adjust the bulb and vents and he's not crazy about attending to chickens.

As long as he opens the vents it shouldn't get too awfully hot in there (afternoon temps in mid 80's), and 4x8 is plenty of space to get away from the heat, but I'd really rather have it off for the afternoon.

(You might live in the Steamy Southeast if you have to worry about chicks overheating in late September).

 

[janiedoe]

This morning, in the pre-dawn gloom, I found them moving around the brooder. I left the bulb in night position since it's the coldest time of the day, but half-opened the supplemental vents.

I'm a little nervous because I'm at work and the 15yo is at school so I'll have to depend on my 21yo to adjust the bulb and vents and he's not crazy about attending to chickens.

As long as he opens the vents it shouldn't get too awfully hot in there (afternoon temps in mid 80's), and 4x8 is plenty of space to get away from the heat, but I'd really rather have it off for the afternoon.

(You might live in the Steamy Southeast if you have to worry about chicks overheating in late September).

Perfectly understandable.
Signed: your friend, from humid and hot, east Texas
I'm sure they will be fine. It is so hard to entrust the youngsters to a babysitter.

 

[3KillerBs]

Perfectly understandable.
Signed: your friend, from humid and hot, east Texas
I'm sure they will be fine. It is so hard to entrust the youngsters to a babysitter.

I just got my break at work and have a Discord message assuring me that the lamp was unplugged in a timely fashion.

 

[3KillerBs]

Silly babies!

At 10 days old, with their heat lamp functioning well and a nice huddle-box provided they were determined to sleep piled in the corner as far from the lamp as it's possible to get -- on a 72F-degree evening when it was going to go down to 60F.

When I picked them up and moved them to the lamp area they stayed there. I don't know why they didn't settle there in the first place though.

They were way back there behind the bucket.

I've tried to make the lamp area appealing -- giving them a security corner between the huddle box and the chunk of 4x4.

DH wondered if they were attracted to the adult birds since they were sleeping as close to the big coop as they could get.

 

[Hermits Garden]

So jealous. Congrats and have fun! Also; "Neuchickenstein".