Chicks are getting to big for box

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rfeyer said:
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Question,

our chicks are currently one week old. The box they are in is about 20 inches tall.

When will that be a problem with flight?

Rainer

My chicks are about 3-4 weeks old now. I have the in a kiddie swimming pool with pine shavings and a heat lamp for warmth in the basement. Last week I went to check on the and startled them one jump clean out if the pool. Then two others followed suite. After a short chase around the basement I put them back in and placed chicken wire over the top to keep them in the pool. Worked great plus I can take them out into the warm weather here in upstate ny for the after just pick up the pool and go. Until tomorrow of course when it decides to snow...ugh
 
Ha - you are in the same area most likely as us - snow tomorrow evening, down to 30, lasting into Wednesday. What a teas today!

Hoping that someone who has done this before can jump in: how high can the chicks at say 5 weeks fly?

Thanks all,

Rainer
 
rfeyer said:
Ha - you are in the same area most likely as us - snow tomorrow evening, down to 30, lasting into Wednesday. What a teas today!

Hoping that someone who has done this before can jump in: how high can the chicks at say 5 weeks fly?

Thanks all,

Rainer
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My chicks as about 3 1/2 weeks old and my brooder is a bunch of boxes put together and about 3 feet high with hardware cloth over the top. Some are coming close to flying to the top!!!!!! I don't know if that usual or if I have super flying chicks!!!

I can only imagin at 5 weeks.....which is why this weather NEEDS to warm up because they're going outside at 5 weeks :fl
 
I put my Black Australorps out in the [ predator secure; heat lamped] coop when they were 3 week old. That's when we received our 11 Buff Orphington. Well the Buffs will be 3 weeks old this Fri. I am off work yesterday and today so I went ahead and moved them out of my bathtub to the coop yesterday. The 4 Australorps did just fine with the babies, let them know who is in charge of cores but fine. The coop at 3p.m was 73. Now this morning at 6a.m. I went out and the coop was 65. I moved the heat lamp over the food area and herded them over to eat and made the Austras stay back so the babies got a good mornings food and water.
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All's good
 
I had my 9 buff orpingtons in a plastic bin for almost 2 weeks with a wire cover over top. Without it they could've flown clumsily out of it into the paws of my cats. They were moved into a large dog crate, covered with fiberglass screening on sides to keep mess in and cats out.

They are 6-7 weeks old now starting to really smell like chickens! As soon as all the fluffy feathers are gone in another week or so they are being booted out to a non heated coop. Temps at night around and above freezing, days nearly 70. By then they will be taking up over 1/2 of the dog crate more than ready to go out.
 
Here the temps are in the 30's and 40's in the daytime and 20's and 30's at night. My chicks are 4 weeks old and doing fine in the unheated garage with just a heat lamp on the coldest nights. Otherwise they huddle together for warmth - that's what chickens are supposed to do. Your chicks would be fine in your coop, particularly if you had a heat lamp on them at night. My coop isn't quite finished or they would be out there instead of in my garage.

As for flight, at 2 weeks my chicks were able to flutter up and sit on their feeeder. At 3 weeks they could fly 24 inches. Now at 4 weeks they could probably clear a 3 or 4 foot wall if they had room to do it. That all happened really fast!
 
Fast is correct - everything happens fast; nice to see the changes though!

Nice to see someone else has cats - my wife is pretty scared of them getting in trouble with the chicks - especially since the cats are raised on pure meat diet (in part chicken and turkey). We shall see on that as well :)

Our chicks are in a fishery 120g breeding tank (without the water :) ) currently. I am planning to build an additional 10" top portion capped with screen until they are feathered. Since we do not know what we are doing yet, plans are changing constantly :)
 

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