....A little correction to what I wrote before. I guess they are older than 3 months when we put them together. We buy 2 large bags of baby chick feed which lasts a few months for 25 baby chicks. Then we get them used to adult chicken feed before we put them together. They have to get used to...
When we get the newborns we keep them in our old garage (in good shape- not drafty), in a large grain box with a screen over the top and 2 heat lamps. In about a month, we put a good sized pen across the end of our chicken coop. We have a wire fence with screening on the top and the heat lamps...