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Thank you for all your input and help. I have moved the chickens into the coop today. They'll be 4 weeks tomorrow. So far so good. I have a sensor in the coop so I can monitor the temperature from inside the house, but with a heat lamp and a heating plate, I doubt it should get too cold for...

Oh, wow! I'll try to get them moved out sometime during the week. Thank you for the input!

Thank you for your reply! There are 13 chicks so they can huddle together and help keep each other warm. Possibly they'll even raise the overall temperature of the coop, but I won't know until I try. Because they are 13 though, I'm slightly concerned about it being very labouring to keep...

Correction: I checked the temperature of the room they're in now and while the heater is set to 24, it's barely 21, more like 20 degrees in there, and they're still sleeping far away from the heating plate. That includes the smaller birds (orpington) that have less feathers than the bigger ones...

I have chicks that will be 4 weeks by the end of the week. The plan was to move them out to their coop sometime this week, but the temperatures have dropped. It might be down to 10 C during the day and 7 C at night at the lowest. I don't want to keep them indoors any longer than I have to, both...