Help with Aggressive chick (or picked on chick, I am not 100% which)?

[Carson213]

Check your temperature at chick level, needs to be at 99 or less degrees. Put a couple of small cardboard boxes for them to explore, you can cut out little doorways for them to go in and out.

Giving them things to explore will help with the pecking, but after several days and there still pecking you have to separate. Just use that fencing in the pic to divide the brooder.
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love the one passed out backwards

 

[Carson213]

Check your temperature at chick level, needs to be at 99 or less degrees. Put a couple of small cardboard boxes for them to explore, you can cut out little doorways for them to go in and out.

Giving them things to explore will help with the pecking, but after several days and there still pecking you have to separate. Just use that fencing in the pic to divide the brooder.
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i’ve never really measured any temperature at ground level. i use the hot plates and just adjust for height. i have a heat lamp but just use it for light and set it about 24-30” off the ground with 2x4’s on the ground...i don’t really adjust the light. they move closer or farther away from it on their own. i usually get rid of the light around 3-4 weeks so they have darkness when it’s dark. this is an ignorant question...but why do you prefer the heat lamp over the hot plate? i use the hot plates basically because they are idiot proof. you just set them at chicken height. my only reason of not using the incandescent bulbs was that if the bulb goes out and having to set the bulb and measure temp...however, i guess if you just keep the bulb low with space, they’ll figure it out...