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    Just Moved Chicks to Coop

    Thanks. This is what I figured. =) Takes them time to figure it out. I'm hoping their curiosity will someday soon just simply get the better of them, haha!
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    Just Moved Chicks to Coop

    We just moved our 5 week old chicks to the coop and they survived the night! =) However, they have not yet figured out how to go up and down the ramp from their coop to their run yet. I want them in the run during the day but they need the coop at night to stay warm and out of the wind. We...
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    Help! 108 degree weather tomorrow!

    This is helpful. Thank you. Do you think I could just get rid of the brooder box all together since I don't need the heat lamp? That would allow more of the light of day (or night) respectively into their area... Or maybe just put their food and water out where more light gets to it?
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    Help! 108 degree weather tomorrow!

    Hi. I'm new to chick raising and we are having a strange change of weather where it is supposed to get to 108 degrees tomorrow. Today was unexpectedly at 104. My chicks are almost 3 weeks old and have a brooder box inside a little gated space inside a cement garage with an old box as a...
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    First Time Chick Parents, Spring 2016

    Oh wow, I never knew I was supposed to turn off the heat lamp at night to help them sleep. They seemed to sleep/roost on their own without me influencing it. Should I be concerned? But that would explain why with the lights off, they were roosting on the log I gave them. I'm not sure what to do...
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    First Time Chick Parents, Spring 2016

    At what point do baby chicks not need the heat lamp anymore? My chicks are two weeks and two and a half weeks and have quite a few feathers in now! It's supposed to go from being in the 70's during the day and low 60's at night to being in the 90's & 100's in the next few days and 70's at night...
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    Quick Question - New chick owner

    I am using the brooder box. I checked with the feed store owner and she said it should be fine to keep them in there the whole time until they were ready to go out into the coop. But one has recently nearly jumped out of the bin, so I need a different solution. I posted this question as a...
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    First Time Chick Parents, Spring 2016

    Hi. My ten chicks are 10 and 12 days old, and I've had them for just under a week. One of them is already trying to hop out of the brooder box. I am wondering if I created a "pen" of sorts and moved them to our garage, and kept the brooder box, but cut down one side of it so that they can get...
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    Quick Question - New chick owner

    Yes. It's just slightly smaller than the original box. We didn't have a lid on the brooder box either though.
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    Quick Question - New chick owner

    I'm a new chick owner - and accidentally spilled the chicks water all over their brooder paper box from the feed store. The box and wood shavings are done for. I found an old plastic bin that's about the same size - but obviously, I can't poke holes in it like they did in the box that the feed...
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    First Time Chick Parents, Spring 2016

    Ok so the sleepy chick seems just fine now but this worrywart if wondering if it's normal for the chicks to cheep a lot. It's not excessive I don't think - actually quite a calming sound, and they seem to sleep and eat and drink and peck around all the time so they seem happy but one thing I...
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    First Time Chick Parents, Spring 2016

    First time chick raiser here and terribly nervous and excited! Brought home 10 baby chicks: 4 Rhode Island reds, 3 Amercauna, and 3 White Longhorns. (I think that's their name). They seem pretty happy so far - sleeping, eating, drinking. One of the Rhode Island Reds seems to sleep more than...
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