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    bringing new chicks outside

    My girls came out of their coop today. We had a nice warm day and they seemed happy. They scratched, ate bugs, and dusted themselves. Then when it started to get dark, they headed up the ramp. Yeah! Thanks for everyone's advice. I am sure that I will be checking this website a lot because...
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    bringing new chicks outside

    Thank you all for you advice. I will let them be for about a week or so. Let them get used to their new house. I will also put a heat lamp in their coop at night. They aren't acting cold, but it wouldn't hurt. Today it is very windy so I closed their door that leads to their outside run...
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    bringing new chicks outside

    The chicks are feathered out. The weather has been nice. We made sure that we send them out when the weather is decent. The days have been warm in the 70' s and low 80's. The nights have been in the high 40's and low 50's. Do we need to actually put them outside? Would they figure out the...
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    bringing new chicks outside

    We brought our baby chicks outside yesterday. They are 6 weeks old. We built a nice chicken coop for them. Inside they have nice nesting boxes and also a large tree branch to roost on. They haven't ventured outside yet. The chicken coop is built on stilts, so there is a ramp for them to...
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