Hello fellow chicken keepers! I currently have a mana hen brooding 3 chicks that are two weeks old. Right now I have them fenced into the loafing shed since about 4 days after they hatched we lost a chick who fell into our goat's water trough
. You can tell mama wants to take the babies out exploring but I'm afraid of losing more to drowning. Our chickens share a large pasture with goats and ducks. We have two large plastic swimming pools that serve as duck ponds and a large tub of water for our goats. At what age do you think it would be safe to let these babies out into the pasture? I've only ever brooded my own chicks before so never had to worry about this since they were 3-4 months old before integrated with the flock. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
). You might just put little chicken ramps in all of the deep water sources. And cross your fingers that they just don't fall in.
