I have 4 two week old chicks that are fond of pecking the ground and scraping it, and sleeping. Sometimes they will have the odd noise making break, but should I put something into the brooder with them? For example I was thinking of putting an old broom handle sawn off, in with them to perch on, but a quick search on duckduckgo suggests maybe to put in a branch and possibly a mirror and a small pile of dirt from the garden…

I am a little confused, as I thought that those sort of things (not including the mirror) might carry harmful things for them, do I need to clean the branches first? - I don’t even want to ask about the garden dirt…

Can I throw a branch in with 2 week old chicks, or do I need to clean it first - and how? Or am I possibly over thinking that I need to much more careful than I actually need to be.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    I dunno about in the brooder, but chickens in general like music. There was some research done into it that I read when we first got birds, and it has held true so far.

    Mine tend to favor smooth jazz, bluegrass, throat singing, and classical.

    • Babalugats@feddit.ukOPEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Thanks, good to know, I leave a radio on low beside them during the day, my intention was to get them used to a bit of noise/human voices.