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The chicks do not care whether they outdoors is below freezing. They do not even care if the far end of their own brooder or coop is below freezing, as long as they can be comfortable under the heat lamp. So when you set up a heat lamp in the coop to see what temperature you can get, go read the...

Planning ahead is always good :) It means you have some uncertainty (how many actual chicks, what weather), but it avoids many kinds of problems! Since you are still at the planning stage, maybe set up a heat lamp in the coop and measure what temperatures you actually get out there. You might...

Rough calculation: 34 chicks, 4 weeks, one square foot per chick... I'm thinking a brooder about 5 by 7 feet (=35 square feet) for that many chicks to that age, and bigger if you go longer. 4x8 feet is 32 square feet, probably also okay. If you use a brooder 5x7 feet (or something similar)...