House chicks!

There's a cheeping box in the house!  It's a big box, big enough to have an inner box cave, where the chicks like to hang out in the dark all day.Three little chicks:)This one is Brownie, HW's favorite, who was hatched first, with a little help.  This is the most vigorous and  adventurous chick, but oddly, it's been getting pasted butt.  I've never known a hen-raised chick to get pasted butt.  I thought the mother hen was proof against it somehow.   While I was gone HW was washing chick butts (he really likes this chick), and today I had the pleasure. It's a lifesaving necessity for pasted butt.It takes a while to gently soak and wash, and mama freaked out a bit at the absence of her first-hatched.  She jumped up on the side of the box, then thought better of the mission and hopped back down in.Lowering Brownie back in. Chick warming