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.....in my case usually when we most need it!you are welcome.... Modular Design is one of my specialties.... I am retired now but sometimes it just spews out....
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.....in my case usually when we most need it!you are welcome.... Modular Design is one of my specialties.... I am retired now but sometimes it just spews out....
I would definitely agree with you about wanting to be touched. I got some as packing peanuts and am very happy that one looks to be a pullet. When I open the brooder she flies up to my arm and settles down using it as a roost.Beautiful Buffies!
Love the Std Brahmas in Black and White...and they are mellow, only one of my breeds that seek to be touched....but finding I don't care for the feathered feet so much.
Quote: Funny, the 2 have that like to be touched ....hated being picked up as chicks, they continued to squawk even after much handling. Wasn't until after they started laying that they became friendly, with no real prompting from me except the nibble put of the feed scoop I gave all the birds. One would stand on the nest perch very close to the door and I started petting it...was weird that it would stand still to be pet pretty hard..... then picking it up, pretty soon they'd just walk up to me while choring in the morning and I started picking them up a couple times a week for a short cuddle. Only one does it so much anymore, but they are both easy to 'grab'.
I have a young pullet (7wo) that seems to like to be touched too...she'll stand still and let me pet her chest, belly and neck when I put my hand thru the fence. She was calm in the brooder too-just like her mother, the most approachable, thought she was a cockerel because of that.
Ah, one of my favorite sights - chicks peeking out from under Mama Heating Pad! Just warms the cockles of my heart! The rug looks like a good idea. Isn't it nice to be able to have so much control over their environment? You can adjust the heat, the height, or both, and there's no heat lamp to contend with heating everything else within a mile!! And your baby is so sweet looking!So here is my updated brooder, the shelf is now covered with a heavy $3.99 rite aid throw rug. This has seemed to help that and the fact that I put the wire rack up on some 1 x 1 strips of wood. Our heat pad is on 1 at this point and I will probably turn it off by the end of this week. They seemed to be random as to if they end up sleeping in it or not and I cannot figure a rhym or reason as to when the do and when they don't. Oh and a cutie baby shot!
Ah, one of my favorite sights - chicks peeking out from under Mama Heating Pad! Just warms the cockles of my heart! The rug looks like a good idea. Isn't it nice to be able to have so much control over their environment? You can adjust the heat, the height, or both, and there's no heat lamp to contend with heating everything else within a mile!! And your baby is so sweet looking!
It has varied from group to group. Every once in a while I'd see a couple either peeking out or just coming out, even when the pad was down to 1 or turned off! But usually that was when I'd been clunking around in the run and done something that spooked them - I'd turn around and realize that while most of them were standing at the side of the pen watching me with interest, a couple of the shyer chicks had hightailed it for cover and were watching me from the safety of Mama. As far as using it just for heat, by 4 weeks old some of them weren't even using it at all - they slept cuddled together on their roost despite the 20 and 30 degree overnight temps. I evicted the first group from the brooder at about 4 and 5 weeks old, when I noticed what you've seen - just occasionally popping under but not seriously staying there. And besides, I had a new group of hatchlings being delivered, so I needed to get the brooder ready for them. The Tiny's went out for good at 5 weeks and now Agatha is using the brooder to set her eggs.Thanks, I love catching them hanging out underneath mama. At what age have you seen chicks no longer needing the heat from you experiences with the heating pad set up?8