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  1. fiddlebanshee

    Getting them ready for coop

    You're welcome! I'm glad it worked for you. Mine are still not consistently roosting on the roosts, I'd probably say half of them do in some sort of fashion (some sit on the poopboard below the roosts). I'm just letting this happen naturally, but it did seem to me that they liked the dim...
  2. fiddlebanshee

    Getting them ready for coop

    No, it's a regular one. I have two outlets right above the roosts because that's where my brooder was. You could run an extension cord through a piece of PVC pipe and fasten it near the roosts so that they can't peck at the cord. But I also think if you leave them time (yours are a week...
  3. fiddlebanshee

    Getting them ready for coop

    Yea mine are huddled together on their roost too. The heatlamp doesn't come on until later tonight (it's on a timer) and they are fine, temps in the coop have been in the low thirties. I hope to have them weened off the lamp by the end of the week. I just checked on them and they are on the...
  4. fiddlebanshee

    Getting them ready for coop

    Chicks can take a lot more than we give them credit for. My chicks are 6 weeks old and almost feathered out. I still had a heatlamp on for them at night. Example: Day before yesterday in the freak snowstorm with high winds that we had, our power went out from 3 pm till midnight. Temps...
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