Babychick keeps cheeping loudly

[Dutchcheepies]

Hello! I've been a long time reader on this forum, but this is my first post. I brought 6 babychicks home on wednesday. Meet Pocky, my brown padua. I'm worried because she keeps cheeping really loudly.

Good signs:
I treated her for pasty butt yesterday because I noticed her straining a lot and sure enough there was a hardened crumb of poopoo stuck to her vent. Today however her vent looks clean, pink, wet and pulsing. Her poop looks normal, brown with a white urate. I've been feeding them the same feed they got started on at the hatchery to minimalize stess factors. She eats, drinks, explores (she was the first one to check our their little toy mirror) and the first one to run out from under the brooder plate when I tap their food or scratch in their hemp bedding. When I put my hand in the brooder she'll walk all over it.

Bad signs:
She has a habit to randomly go stand in a corner and cheep really loudly. Even when the other chicks are around her she just cheeps and cheeps and cheeps like she's in distress. I don't know what's wrong with her. I attached a video of her doing it. (The YT link) If someone knows what could be wrong with her please let me know! I really want to help her I just don't know how.

Thank you for reading!

 

[RubelliteRose]

Your chicks are very cute!! If she is still eating, drinking and exploring there may be nothing wrong with her, she may just be more expressive than the others. The few chicks that I have had who did not live long clearly did not feel well and were lethargic.
Have you been spending a lot of time with them the past few days and does she do this when you are not in the room? With my first 2 batches of chicks, I would spend many hours a day with them. I have had a couple of chicks who would cheep when they realized I was not around and then stop when I came running back into check on them. As adults, they are well adjusted and very friendly though.

 

[fldiver97]

What’s your heat source? Make sure that there’s room for the chicks to move to and from the heat as needed. If you use a heat lamp look for behavior…. Chicks that are cold will huddle under the heat source and not want to run around the brooder much. Chicks that are too hot will go to the edges of the brooder to get away. If you use a brooder plate make sure there’s room height of the plate is set correctly. I like to set my plate a bit higher on on side after a few days so they can go where they need, sometimes a chick or two are a bit bigger than the others.
I also have a plush toy that I put in the brooder if I have just a few chicks, they seem to like snuggling around it and as they get bigger they sit on it and explore.
Grower crumbles are best, daily bum checks for the first week or two and access to clean water.

 

[Dutchcheepies]

Your chicks are very cute!! If she is still eating, drinking and exploring there may be nothing wrong with her, she may just be more expressive than the others. The few chicks that I have had who did not live long clearly did not feel well and were lethargic.
Have you been spending a lot of time with them the past few days and does she do this when you are not in the room? With my first 2 batches of chicks, I would spend many hours a day with them. I have had a couple of chicks who would cheep when they realized I was not around and then stop when I came running back into check on them. As adults, they are well adjusted and very friendly though.

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply and tell me about your own experience! That really reassures me. Yes we have been with them a lot. She does it when I leave the room, but also when I'm in the room. She doesn't do it when I play with her by scratching around the brooder to make her run. So I think there's something there in what you said. She loves the attention haha. I'm just super scared because in my last batch of chicks one died because he was lethargic and I didn't catch on fast enough, I feel so guilty about it so now I'm maybe a little in helicopter mom mode.

 

[Dutchcheepies]

What’s your heat source? Make sure that there’s room for the chicks to move to and from the heat as needed. If you use a heat lamp look for behavior…. Chicks that are cold will huddle under the heat source and not want to run around the brooder much. Chicks that are too hot will go to the edges of the brooder to get away. If you use a brooder plate make sure there’s room height of the plate is set correctly. I like to set my plate a bit higher on on side after a few days so they can go where they need, sometimes a chick or two are a bit bigger than the others.
I also have a plush toy that I put in the brooder if I have just a few chicks, they seem to like snuggling around it and as they get bigger they sit on it and explore.
Grower crumbles are best, daily bum checks for the first week or two and access to clean water.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read and reply to my post! I have the brooding plate on an incline and they keep running around and then going back under to snooze so I think we're good there. I really like that plush idea! That sounds adorable!
Thank you for all the advice

 

[fldiver97]

She may well just be a little attention hog
You got this, the chicks needs are met and they’re well cared for!