MountainCountry
Hatching
- Apr 27, 2016
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Hey everyone! Brought 4 baby chicks home today (Aracauna, Maran, Rhode island, Brahma). I have them in a bathroom and am using an EcoGlow 20 instead of a heat lamp (too worried about fire hazards). Being a first timer, and a worrier, is it normal that the chicks chirp a bunch (one is LOUD!), then hide under the EcoGlow, then come out, chirp some more, etc. It does appear that they have been eating and drinking. I guess I had read (over-read, probably) so much that noisy chirps mean a problem, but it isn't all the time. They tend to come and go from under the EcoGlow. Underneath, they seem calm and fine. It's when they come out and walk around, eat, etc. One already (at just a day old) already hopped up on top of the EcoGlow. Am I just a first time worrier? Thanks for reading! PS: I haven't check for pasty butt...do I automatically do that, or only if it seems one or more are acting strange? (There is poop on the floor already.)