UPDATE: Babies arrived hale and hearty! One problem though...

Nothing to worry about! Sometimes they go for eyes, and even go as far as grabbing another chicks toe and dragging them around as if they had a great treat. But up till they are maybe 4-7 days old, all their bones and beaks are still soft and they can't hurt each other.

Glad they are getting along.
 
Actually, you need to watch them. More than forty years ago, I had some Leghorns actually eat toes off of the two lowest chicks in the hierarchy while they were still in the brooder. The chicks were fine in the morning when I left for high school, and I came back and found a big, bloody mess. I suspect the brooder was too small - but I never want to see a chick go through that again.
 

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