no heat lamp

I raised about 40 to 50 chicks last year in a large brooder in my garage, starting the first group in about March. When they were old enough I moved them to a separate outdoor small coop with a hoop run, then let them free range with all of my other adults (I had sold all but 10). My problem...

How do you know if the chicks are cold or not? I don't have a heat lamp on for them or a heat plate. I do have a wool hen, or something like it, for them. They are a week old to a week and a half. They don't seem to want to go in the wool hen. They are eating and drinking. They like to sleep...

Hello! We are very excited to say that the wool hen that we made seems to be working. I posted the video showing the quiet girls (hopefully all girls!) in their "wool hen". I only found a couple videos online and had to figure out most on my own with what we had in our stuff that was going to...