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They are probably making more noise because they are cold. They really need something warm. Even a hot water bottle would help.
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The lamps are pretty big. You usually hang them from a chain, posdible just in one corner of your crate.They can then move into the area that is most comfortable. The lamp gets lifted every week.Comment
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So lamp installed - after a load of running around. The one the pet shop had ordered was waaay to big - wouldnt have fit in the cage and looked more like for an entire brood. So after a few visits to various shops we have a small lamp from a reptile pet shop with a 60w bulb - do you think that's warm enough? Its pretty warm here at the moment and they're in the house, plus I covered the cage with thick blankets last night as well.
Although now panicking they're too hot - this is like having a newborn baby! They cant be - its only a 60w bulb, feels cosy warm not hot, and they have spent time under it crashed out "sunbathing" and also away from it.
But they're still chirping constantly - does that mean they're not happy about something?Comment
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No, not unhappy, peeping and pooping is just what they do.....
....AND WHERE ARE THE PHOTOS???
Have they got nmes yet?Comment
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Sorry sorry - here you go!
Before we had the lamp so easier to see. And yes - well sort of - My kids are 3.5 and 7, so things that get named tend to be fluid for a while! One set that seems to have stuck is Jacky and Hannah (after the headmistress and the teacher involved at school!) but they could just as easily be Sky and Pancake in the morning!Comment
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Gorgeous!
if you have the lamp in one corner they will move away if they get to hot and closer when they want a warm up. unfortunately they do make noise 
i had 24 in my living room once!!
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Ah! They're awesome! You're making me more and more certain that i want to raise some chicks in the next year or two. My daughter will love it!Comment
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Thought I'd let you know they're doing really well. There were a few moments last week where I was worried about one of them - she had a few wobbly moments where she seemed to have lost use of her left side. In hindsight I think she was tired and cold - I lowered the light and have left it on 24/7. They seem pretty happy with it - they wander in and out of the light, sometimes lying under it sometimes wandering around. They're pretty active now, flying and jumping up on the lego house my son built and perching on their little stick.
Thanks for all your advice!Last edited by babymunkey; 24-07-2015, 10:32 PM.Comment
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Aww, lovely! I know it's very difficult to sex chicks and yours have been sexed by the colouring, but the one at the back is standing very much like a cockeral
what breed did they say they were?
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Oooh eeek - I dont know for sure - the info booklet the school passed on indicated that they were probably layer hybrids - Rhode Island crosses? I'll check - I'll also post some more recent photos - they are growing so quickly and with their feathers coming through they look different daily! I hope she's not a boy! would be so sad to have to rehome - we're very residential so not even a sniff of being able to keep a cockerel.
Just checking in on heat lamp - I have removed it completely now as the weather has been warmer and not dropping at night. They are still in the house, and are about half feathered. They are out in the day if its warm in a small run next to the growed up girls, who seem to be fascinated by them, but I keep an eye on them and if they look tired or chilly I bring them in again for a rest. Reckon this is OK?
They're still on chick pellets, but are eating up scraps of veg (chopped up tiny) and meal worms etc. as well - they get the odd go at scrambled egg but dint really eat it, just stand in it and poo on it, silly things!
They're perching really well in the daytime on perch in their cage - dont think they sleep on it yet though - they actually sleep with their heads laid out on the floor like a cat/dog/child - really cute!Comment
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Aww, all sounds fine but I'd love to see some pics
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