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Hello everyone,
I tried to look for this on forum b/c I'm sure it's been asked before. Can I move my girls out to their coop at 4 .5 weeks old. I have 11 chicks, 3 weeks now, 3 Buffs, 3 Black Australorps, 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes and 3 Americaunas. We are building a 8x5 coop this week and it will be done by Easter. Can I move the girls out to the coop with thier heat lamp at 4 1/2 weeks old? I live in Waverly, CO and so it's still cold and windy during the day and down in the 30's at night. I thought if I set up the heat lamp in the coop at 70 degrees for that first week that they would be good at night and if warm during the day 60's could they go out in thier run if they wanted to? I love them all so much and don't want to do anything to harm them but the dust in the house is almost unbearable from their aspen shavings?
Also one of our buffs is huge. She's much bigger than the other two Buffs and her legs are twice the size and her crown is much larger and very red while the other two 3 weeks old have longer tail feathers and just little nubbins of crown are showing. Is Rose a roo? I can keep a roo for the first year but May 2012 I'm moving them into town. Are Buff roo's loud or will he have to be a house chicken? How can you tell at 3 weeks old who's a pullet and who's a roo? They were all sexed??? When do thier spurs grow in?
Any help would be appreciated!
I tried to look for this on forum b/c I'm sure it's been asked before. Can I move my girls out to their coop at 4 .5 weeks old. I have 11 chicks, 3 weeks now, 3 Buffs, 3 Black Australorps, 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes and 3 Americaunas. We are building a 8x5 coop this week and it will be done by Easter. Can I move the girls out to the coop with thier heat lamp at 4 1/2 weeks old? I live in Waverly, CO and so it's still cold and windy during the day and down in the 30's at night. I thought if I set up the heat lamp in the coop at 70 degrees for that first week that they would be good at night and if warm during the day 60's could they go out in thier run if they wanted to? I love them all so much and don't want to do anything to harm them but the dust in the house is almost unbearable from their aspen shavings?
Also one of our buffs is huge. She's much bigger than the other two Buffs and her legs are twice the size and her crown is much larger and very red while the other two 3 weeks old have longer tail feathers and just little nubbins of crown are showing. Is Rose a roo? I can keep a roo for the first year but May 2012 I'm moving them into town. Are Buff roo's loud or will he have to be a house chicken? How can you tell at 3 weeks old who's a pullet and who's a roo? They were all sexed??? When do thier spurs grow in?
Any help would be appreciated!