HELP! Chicks prefer Wyze Cam as a Brooder Instead of K&H Brooder

[Avyona]

My chicks are 1 week old today. Last night I caught them sleeping around my WYZE cam which I have in the brooder. It doesnt get very warm ( I can hold it in my hand without it burning me), but they all pile on top of it or around it. I took this, of course, as a sign to raise the brooder which I should be doing at 1 week old. The room temp is 75 degrees and draft free.

So I raised the brooder so its no longer slanted (in the lowest position) but now on the first set of pegs level. I also put folded paper towels under the level to make it a tad higher just in case because the second set of pegs seemed to high. They all went under it immediately to try it out and seemed to settle down.

However, I watched them all leave the brooder plate and head back to the WYZE cam lol. Its cute as hell, but not ideal.

should I let them be? Or do I need to remove the camera for the meantime, since they seemed to have imprinted on it haha! Or just prefer whatever heat it is giving off. Honestly, its probably just one of them that love the wyze cam and the others do what she says to do lol.

 

[Avyona]

Oh I thought I would include a pic of what they have been doing most of this first week at bedtime... note the timestamps on the pictures.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I'd remove the camera or move it outside their enclosure, you really don't need it in there.

 

[Avyona]

Well I took the Wyze cam out of the enclosure and placed it outside the door so I could still kinda see in there if I started to worry. Those little stinkers first went under the brooder plate but then abandoned it for snuggling up to the door as close as they could get to the Wyze camera lol. There is no way they could get any heat from it. Did they just fall in love with a "robot"?



I again got worried about them sleeping the rest of the night like this and decided to give them back their camera...I just put it closer to the brooder plate



I think I may be a helicopter parent lol

 

[Avyona]

my husband just reminded me that I did speak to the chicks through the camera when we were away the other day. Maybe this is why? Associating my voice with the camera? I "baby" talk to my new chicks It does seem to mark when they began this behavior.

 

[GlicksChicks]

If you still want to record them, maybe put the camera near the heat plate so when they huddle near the camera they aren't too far from the heat and they might end up huddling under the heat plate to get near the camera if it is close enough. Could that work?

 

[WaterfowlsPoultry]

I used to have a WYZE Camera in my coop, My Rouen loved the camera and would sit near it and quack at it, But thinking back I think he tried fighting it

If you ask me it might be because of the light the WYZE camera gives because my chicks would chirp whenever they don't see light, Does it ever get dark or something inside the brooder?