Yep! It's normal. I think they must be happy chickens if they're trying to look pretty.
It has been years since we had peeps so I forgot. Thank goodness its not mites or anything.:thumbs up:
They may be doing it a lot partly because they are bored and there is nothing else to do. Can you set a pen on the grass so they could scratch and peck around once the day warms up? Though if they eat grass/bugs they should have grit available.
They have a fairly big pen in the living room till we can get smaller chicken wire. It is 3'H, 6'L,3'W. With 5 perches in it. Maybe I can put sand in it for them to sling.
Or hay/straw, they love to scratch around. In a natural environment even three day old chicks are busy every minute of the day scratching around, looking for bugs, dust bathing, preening etc... They seem to have an endless amount of energy.
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