marbles?

[jeremy]

browsing the forum i've seen lots of posts, well brooder posts, that have a random assortment of marbles in the brooder with chicks.

i.e.-

do the marbles heat up under the lamp and help to keep the babies warm?

or do some chicks like to play with them. . . haha, that'd be funny. ( :

anyways. just wondering.

jeremy.

 

[PotterWatch]

Marbles are put in the water dish to keep chicks from drowning in it. Other than that, I don't know what they would be used for.

 

[jeremy]

oh! i guess that makes sense.

i didn't know babies were so prone to drowing? our water dish that they drink from is only about 1 in. deep.

 

[Jacky'sMamma]

From what I have observed itty bitties tend to fall asleep where ever they happen to be (like the food/water dish!). That and they aren't exactly the most coordinated!

 

[Reinbeau]

I added marbles to their waterer to attract them to it when they were first in the brooder, worked like a charm. Now they're just in there to keep them from falling face first in there and drowning, although I think there's less of a chance of that now.

 

[coffeemama]

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Even a human baby/toddler can drown in 1" of water. The marbles work very well, and I've not lost a chick due to drowning since I've used them.