· Dip their beaks in water to get them drinking.
· Make sure you are using warm water for the 1st few hours. Not cold water.
· Check them often to ensure they are eating, drinking, and comfortable.
· Noisy chicks are unhappy chicks, cold or hungry.
· Pasty Butt indicates chicks that are too hot, stressed, or dehydrated.
· Brooding area should smell fresh – no ammonia odor.
· Place chicks under the heat source as quickly as possible
· Huddled chicks are cold chicks.
· Evenly spread out are comfortable chicks
· Noisy chicks are cold chicks.
