Thanks, I think I'll wait a week or two than just play it by ear. I'll let them out and watch them and see how they react just like you mentioned. This whole new chicken owner stuff is stressful!! There is much more to raising chickens than I realized! Thanks for the tips!
I only had newspaper in there for the first day then put pine shavings because I read about splayed legs!! Thanks for the tip though! This is actually just a swimming pool that I had them in while they were still in my classroom. Now they are in the chicken coop with a section partitioned off...
Thats actually what are did to begin with. We actually have 26 chicks that we are keeping to lay eggs. Of coarse many of them will end up being roosters. Then we have another section blocked off with jumbo cornish rocks. I separated them because I read that the Cornish Rocks shouldn't be...
Thanks for the reply. How old are yours? My brooder does not have a door so I would have to take down the entire thing and just let them roam free. We have about 26 chicks that were hatched in classrooms, 4 of them came from my classroom :) Do you think it's too early....maybe I should wait...
I'm new to having chicks and have lots of questions!!! My biggest question right now is about our brooder. Since we do not have any other chickens we built a brooder house in the corner of the coop with everything they need; heat lamp, water, food, pine shavings. My question is when can I...