When can these mess makers go ouside??

[Crazy4cochins]

I can't find it on here for some reason
I have 2 pekin and 2 runner s that are getting big and I wanna know when I can put them out.
they are still fluffy but have white underneath, the pekins are the size of my small kitty.lol.
She s full grown but anywyas I have 3 adults already outside 1 runner and 2 pekin will they all end up following each other in a group??

 

[faykokoWV]

They always say wait until they are feathered fully. But I also think that depends on where you are going to keep them outside and how warm it is over night where you are.

 

[RedfogsFlock]

We put ours outside at one week old! We live in AZ though, so you have to take that into consideration. Beings you are in Missouri I would put a light for warmth in their nesting box outside. We have 3 white crested that went outside at a week old and it was still getting down into the low 50's high 40's at night. We just made sure they had a heat lamp in their brooding box. Currently we have 4 runner babies that are 3 weeks old and have been out now for 2 weeks.
We had at the time one mallard female that was 2 months old, and one runner that is 2 years old. They all bonded and run together now. It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen after a week or so.


Hope this helps!

 

[chocolate m'scovy]

I agree with RedfogsFlock. We often put out older chicks with a heat lamp.

 

[Crazy4cochins]

I put them out there last night and they were fine. They were following me today which was cute.
My chicks are still inside becasue I don't want to move them out with a lamp, my goat barn burned down last week froma heat lamp fire!!!! All the goaties are fine but now I am really scared. I also have one broody hen who has a baby so she needed to be put in a cage in the coop. the other hen hoped in her nest to lay an egg and killed her baby

so now she only has one.
Mean chickens!!!