SusanD
Chirping
Thanks for your reply, that was helpful. I had a followup question about how to go about putting them in our (my parents and my) chicken coop (or alternatively moving the brooder to our garage) safely (with a heat lamp). We will have had them inside for three weeks as of the 19th. Their feather stages are - Welsummer, almost completely feathered; RIR, wings and upper side; Langshan, wings and some leg feathers only. The air temperature where I live varies from 30/40 something at night to 60/70 something during the day, and we do sometimes get rain I assume we would want the temperature around the heat lamp to be the same as what we would like it to be inside (80 to 85) and also to keep them dry. Is there anything else we should know?