What on earth...

[cbrown86]

I got 3 new chicks a few days ago. One of them pecks everything. She will NOT stop pecking at the waterer. It is so weird. I've never seen a chick do it.

 

[Judy]

It's just their way of exploring their world. Give them more things to explore -- including the outdoors, as soon as you dare, for short periods at first. Mama hens take their chicks out to forage, scratch and peck, at 2 or 3 days old.

 

[featheredroots]

Is she seeing her reflection in it? My silly girls are constantly pecking at their reflections in the glass waterer, and the sides of the plastic brooder.

 

[cbrown86]

The waterer is a foggy plastic. And the only place she pecks, is the label, where there is a tiny drawing of a chicken.

 

[cbrown86]

I haven't taken them outside yet, because the other day it was sleeting and the ground is all soggy. I do let them roam in the living room sometimes.

 

[felidaet]

You might try putting a piece of sod in the brooder. I have not done this before but many people on here have said they do it and the chicks love it. I am going to try it this year. I would make sure they have chick grit available first though so that they can digest any plant material of bugs they find in the sod.