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I’m glad it was just the temp/comfort issue. It’s great to be loved deeply and needed by my chicks, but it was exhausting to have to hear it non stop for a month!

I did post an update in here so you can go back and see that. But in the end, it was time that did it. It took weeks (3 or 4?) for Anne to calm down. Now she is as quiet and mellow as the rest of them and it is all happy quiet bird noises. But I thought I would lose my ever loving mind for...

UPDATE: since a lot of other posts about this never followed up or updated, I want to give a follow up. Around week 3 Anne started to calm down a bit. She was still loud, she still went for hours a day, but it started to lessen a bit. By week 4-5 she was still doing it, but not in a “I need...

Not that I can upload easily here. But it’s just an endless peeping.

lol…. Yeah…. No. She’s still loud. She’s LESS loud, less often, but boy howdy does she know how to make noise. She just wants me, wants me around and wants me to take her out of the brooder and love on her (though half the time she still chirps as I’m holding her). I have added a ton of...

I’ll have to update as she ages (if we don’t send her back!). I love her and want to keep her, but the entire point of not having a rooster is to have a quiet flock and she’s a strobe light of sound. I’ve been told that she might grow and settle into herself and quiet down. I’ve been doing a LOT...

My kiddo was the opposite and never wanted to be held close until she was older 🤦🏻‍♀️ Bjorn, baby wraps, ergo carriers- she screamed at them all. I’ve tried the “comfort” thing for her, but it doesn’t seem to be that… she sometimes quiets down, but most of the time she still peeps loudly the...

No, it’s an insistent, loud, “hey! Hey hey!” Sort of call. I tried everything, I even dosed with invermectin to see if it was a digestive upset- but it turns out she’s just a loud mouth. I gave them a new brooder set up (wire grid panels that make a 36”x30” cube and placed it on a table so she...

I’m not sure about her, but the others have no fears or worries; they were hatched by a friend and we got them the next day and have hand raised them. They come running up to see us when we walk by and fight to be the first to hop on our hands when we put ours in there. They don’t almost ever...

I’ll have to read that and look into it. I don’t plan any more babies for a long time (we can’t have more than we do and unless we lose some or one goes crazy broody, we have to limit to 4-6 chickens). But I like the higher up method (& I’m also building my coop with a floor that’s almost 3 feet...

It IS my first brood of chicks- so I might be overthinking everything 😆 but yes, I’m creating different brooders as they are. First stage is this tote, next is a larger cardboard box with a mesh lid (think refrigerator box on its side). Last brooder will be a plywood set up when they move to the...

I’ll have to think of that- it’s not a “big” project to me, but I have them “play” in a stiff mesh laundry bag while I clean the cage each morning and they get a bit nervous looking out, so I’m not sure they will like a “window”. I do have overhead lighting that doesn’t allow for any shadows in...

She eats and drinks like a champ, never any issues going poo (they are all spotlessly clean bottoms!) and she’s perfect… just a needy yapper I guess. Some days she’s a bit better but it’s literally all day every day most days and we’ve had her a week. I love to death, but mama needs some peace...

I’ll see if the image will load... It’s a large Rubbermaid tote (apx 2x3 feet) and I have the heat plate on one end, and food and water at the other. I swap a few times a day between the roosting bars and then replace with 2 mirrors so they have different things to play with (I also put a ping...

The brooder is in the kitchen area & I’m a SAHM and my husband works from home and we homeschool in the Dining room, so there is almost always someone passing by or “around” (we are homebodies so we are always making noise somewhere). The noise doesn’t increase or decrease with our presence or...

I’ve tried equal parts ignoring her (like a toddler tantrum) and I’ve tried holding her… neither seems effective. The urge to yell is high, but I’d hate to actually scare her (& punish/scare the ones that are happy to peep small peeps all day). 🤦🏻‍♀️😩😆

I’m trying to not lose my mind with one of my Chicks- she WONT STOP CHIRPING! This isn’t a little peeping like all her brooder mates, this an almost a “help me” peep, but she doesn’t need any kind of help. It’s a “louder than the rest, if a strobe light had a sound it would be this peeping” kind...