Questions about Chicks

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Are you checking for poopy butt?
Not sure of your brooder size, but the heat plate should be enough.
The heat lamp may be making it too warm.
New chicks may eat the smaller pieces of wood shavings for the first couple days of life. I keep new chicks on paper towel until day 3.
Also what kind of shavings is it? Pine?
Quick chick for those first couple days also helps chicks recover from the hard work of hatching and gets them off to a good start.
Your brooder location, is it in a garage or kitchen where fumes or gas could be affecting them?
Let us know.

 

[Mamatomany123]

What are you brooding them in? When I first got chicks I read that you could brood them in those plastic totes. Oh boy, was that bad advise. Even though the heat lamp was just on one side it still got so hot in there. I saw a chick panting, checked the temp, it was almost 120 on the "cool" end. I'm sure they would have cooked had I not seen it so soon.