How much sleep is too much for chicks?

[chickmama53]

I got my very first chicks one week ago. They seemed to be doing fine, except the last couple of days they are asleep everytime I check on them. How much do week old chicks normally sleep. They also huddle together just outside of where the light/heat hits. All except for one, that is. One chick is always asleep by herself on the other side of the brooder; this is also the only check that has had the pasty butt problem. Do you think I have a problem or is this normal behaviour?
Thanks for your help!

 

[youngbiddy]

If you work all day and come home at night then they'd naturally be asleep. Do they appear to be eating at a normal rate? If their food doesn't need to be replenished frequently I'd be worried. Are they feathering out?
Your loner chick may be in a decline, a healthy chick craves company.

 

[Sparklee]

Possibly check your temps. If I have the heat too high, then they sleep more, which isn't so great because they are supposed to be eating, drinking, and growing. It seems like I have more trouble with the huge, deep plastic bins that I use when they are brooding inside the house. I raise the light just 1/2 an inch or an inch and they wake up and start moving about. I have to keep my eye on the thermometer that I place in the brooder to make sure it's not too high or low.

After I move them out to the brooder house with a regular brooder hover, they seem to regulate themselves better because, I think, they are getting a tiny bit more air movement (but not a draft).

Also, you could just wake them up when you get home. Mine are awake and asleep on and off all day/evening. I often even find mine awake in the middle of the night.