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Unfortunately, she stopped eating well a few days ago (crop wasn’t full when I checked on her in the evening and afternoon) and wasn’t keeping herself warm by going under the heat plate in the coop which resulted in her passing overnight. She was about the size of 2-3 weeks at nearly 7 weeks.

I picked up 5 chicks (hatched about 3 weeks ago) and I had 1 pass away within 2 days of arriving, which I attributed to either illness or the stress of shipping. The others seemed alright and I supplement with nutri-drench on most days, however - 1 of the remaining chicks has been growing much...

Today's the day! We've had an abnormally cold/extended winter in Minnesota but our flock of 4 destroyed their brooder 3 weeks ago. For a while they were in the coop with a temporary heat lamp, but once they got too big to fit underneath it the started to burn some of their tail feathers off...

If you can supplement heat in the coop for the next 2 weeks they should be just fine out there. With only 3 of them there's not much heat for them to pile up together quite yet. All that said, our 5 week chicks are out in the MN winter with a heat lamp in the coop keeping it just above 32 in the...

I'm just on my first set of chicks as well and it's pretty cold up in MN right now (low of 13F overnight, 20F at 10am) - so I did close food and water in the coop with them and am leaving them closed in until about noon when it'll be more like 25F. They enjoyed being out in the run in the mid...

By 7 weeks they should be completely fully feathered and ok without a lamp.

Our chicks are just over 5 weeks and chewed a large hole in their brooder box on Thursday night - we're in MN. I put them out into their coop Friday morning and when the heat of the day picked up (mid 30s) I opened the coop door and they were happy to roam in the run. Last night it snowed 2...

I've just popped 2 window screens out - temporarily until the chicks are out in their coop - up in MN we won't have the windows open for 2 more months anyway...

Our three and a half week old flock got to spend a little time outside today. It's only in the low 40s here at the warmest, but they're getting good feather coverage and enjoyed being able to stretch their legs.

I'm also at a similar point, 3 week old chicks on a broader. I've been doing my best to keep them on minimal heat - the room is 65F and the ceramic heat lamp is in only a corner from the broader, currently at about 80F. The chicks spend most of their time running around the broader, flying end...

So far it's a mixed bag, but one of the pugs is extremely interested and isn't exactly calm about it. As the chicks get bigger they'll be able to get outside and we can introduce more safely.

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Decided to get chickens last fall, built a small coop/large tractor. Two weeks ago picked up day old chicks. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? We have a flock of 4 chickens. (3) What breeds do you have? They're a mixed...

My first set of chicks are only 2 weeks old, but I've hung a few old cd's shiny side out from the side of their brooder. They love pecking and banging on the cd's. They're also enjoying hopping around a collection of scrap 2x4 and 2x2's that I placed in their brooder. I slowly change the...