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post #1 of 4
5/12/12 at 4:11pm
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my hens are 4 weeks old today! i live in illinois and while today it rained, its usualy pretty warm in may! and in june the heat gets pretty hot. when can i get them to be outside for good? there getting to big for a brooder

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post #2 of 4
5/12/12 at 6:06pm

As I understand it, when they have a full set of feathers, they are able to deal with the environment.  (Especially if you have a nice shelter/coop for them to get in out of the weather).  I got one in October that was 4-weeks....and she was mostly feathered but she had some feathers that looked like marabou -- She is doing fine.  4-weeks should be O.K. IMO.  

 

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"Was dich nicht umwirft, macht dich starker"   "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."-Friedrich Nietzsche 
My new tag line...added to the end of every sentence--->  "...... after all, they ARE chickens!!!"

 

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post #3 of 4
5/12/12 at 6:57pm
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the midwest weather is tricky, the summers can be brutally hot, and the winters can be brutally cold! haha. they have all the feathers from what i can see, i'm waiting until a nice day to bring them to there new chicken coop. I'm thinking by next saturday they should definetly be ready.

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5/12/12 at 7:03pm

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