Welshies
Crowing
Oh, don't forget cotton balls and scissors! very good for helping young chicks, padding, cleaning wounds, trimming feathers or cutting bandages.
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I am grateful for your advice and experience!Good response. I like you
Of course! Added to the listOh, don't forget cotton balls and scissors! very good for helping young chicks, padding, cleaning wounds, trimming feathers or cutting bandages.
Oh my goodness, HOW CUTE!! I am so excited they look super happy and comfortable. So straw on top of it? I've read a lot about using shavings...what is your opinion?You hit the nail on the head. Differing opinions, especially when expressed with common decency and courtesy as this exchange was, are amazingly helpful when someone is trying to make a decision.
Mama Heating Pad is draped over or bungee corded under a frame of some sorts. I use a bit of scrap fencing. As the chicks grow, I have a few options. I can either simply pull up on the center of the frame and make it higher, turn the temperature control down, or both. As @Welshies said, always watch the chicks' behavior and they will clearly tell you what they want. After no more than a week the chicks are spending as much time on top of it as they do under it. Even raising chicks outside in northern Wyoming when our springtime "chick season" temperatures are in the twenties, they have pretty much weaned themselves off all heat by 4 weeks old. Maybe this will help...this is one batch of chicks out of the many I've raised this way. The temperature outside dropped to 21 or so overnight and they woke up raring to go. I do have another video which shows the MHP from a different, clearer angle, but this one shows how well they do and how quickly they take to sitting on top at only a week old.
Personally, I love shavings as they are easy to aerate, nice smelling, and very easy to use deep litter method with. They are cheaper in my area than other bedding, at $4 CAD for 6 cubic feet.
No no no. Never news paper, it causes straddle or spraddle leg. Towel would be good. Some chicks eat shavings some don't- mine never did, so it's up to you.Yes, I want to do the deep litter method! I have read that day old chicks should be on news paper or paper towel for the first week or two to prevent them from eating the shavings?