Brand new chicks

[MissMaple]

Congrats and best of luck! Can you post pictures?

 

[MariaE]

Thank you for the advice.I think I am going to do

Congrats and best of luck! Can you post pictures?

 

[PirateGirl]

With your light, try to position it more towards one end of the tub, then they have space to go directly under it or move away from it to regulate their temperature. Sounds like you have a good setup for them.

 

[MariaE]

I sure will! Still.learning my way around this site! Everybody is so nice and helpful, I love it!!

 

[MariaE]

With your light, try to position it more towards one end of the tub, then they have space to go directly under it or move away from it to regulate their temperature. Sounds like you have a good setup for them.

 

[Melky]

Love pics with names and breeds! Happy Super Bowl Sunday! Don’t forget thermometer in brooder near heat source on side at chick level. First week 90-95 then wean by 5 degrees every 5-7 days till 65-70 then off. Keep raising to drop temp if do not have something to regulate the light with. They should do fine. Wait till feathered out min 4-5 weeks or 6-8weeks if too cool out to let outside to coop. Hope you have one ready. They grow fast!

 

[MariaE]

Thank you, I have the light at one end so they can move awsy, and some straw at the other end, just a little. They seem to like to play and scrach in it. I bought a bale at the feed store and keep it in the garage, figure I would change it every 2-3 days?

 

[PirateGirl]

Nice. It looks like you have an extra large tub for them! Your photo shows something that is a good sign, your chicks are not all huddled in one place, so they are not all too hot or too cold! Have fun with them.

 

[MissMaple]

I love the chick in the first photo that's sleeping on it's belly- soooo cute!

 

[Folly's place]

Welcome! When your chicks are in an interior room, have the overhead bathroom light on 10 to 12 hours during the day, and off at night, with the red heat lamp on all the time.
NEVER NEVER have your heat lamp only attached by the clip!!! In fact, consider removing the clip, or not using it at all. Get a chain, and a couple of snaps, and attach the lamp overhead by the chain, at least, to a fixed overhead support. I also run the electric cord overhead to the overhead support, so there are at least two independent hangers for that lamp. If it falls, and they do, your chicks will burn up, and a plastic tub will start melting, with toxic fumes.
I hope your chicks can go to their outside coop soon, and that you have a hardware cloth cover in the works for your tub, before they are jumping out.
Mary