Take each one to the nipple and touch their beak to it so a drop of water flows into their beak and they drink it. That's usually all it takes to get them using it immediately.
I would butt them up next to each other because they're all going to want to stay together.
The towel keeps them from pooping on top of the brooder plates and creates a cave so that overflow chicks can still say warm on the perimeter of the plates.
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