➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Tesumph]

Brand new freshly hatched chicks in a brooder at 80 and they were perfectly happy.

I have been wondering about this and was going to ask. With these temperatures, 75 at night and 95 during the day, do I really need heat for chicks? Could they just brood outside with no other source?

ETA: keeping in mind that the heat index is always 10+ above actual temperature

 

[itspebbl]

Hi! Just read through allllllllll the pages I missed
Hope your balutties make it, Kiki!

 

[adrikeen]

How did your chicks get out??

@kiki - let the door open


But seriously...they are 4 weeks old, into the terrible two stage, and into everything. Some predator took my beloved Rupert and now my youngest cat is without her best friend (yes the roo was a partial house chicken). I have the chicks brooding in the room where he slept and my cat now wants to be buddies with the chicks and keeps managing to slide in between the baby gates. She's a very petite cat. She dislodged the one gate to the point the chicks got out, walked across the kitchen and into the family room where the computer is. They are very curious little buggers.

 

[adrikeen]

I am never ever going to eat balut again...

(except maybe if the store already cooked them... no.... i can't ...after seeing the videos of these perfectly precious survivors...)

Join the club.
It sounds disgusting huh.

I should have videoed Chef's reaction when I asked him about balut...that would have entertained everyone on here. Hmm....I could possibly do it again...but nothing could top the initial reaction.

 

[Kiki]

I have been wondering about this and was going to ask. With these temperatures, 75 at night and 95 during the day, do I really need heat for chicks? Could they just brood outside with no other source?

ETA: keeping in mind that the heat index is always 10+ above actual temperature

Heck no...we don't need added heat.
I think it is ok for the first few days but after that outside with no heat is perfectly fine.
They do so much better in cooler temps.

 

[adrikeen]

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[Kiki]

@kiki - let the door open


But seriously...they are 4 weeks old, into the terrible two stage, and into everything. Some predator took my beloved Rupert and now my youngest cat is without her best friend (yes the roo was a partial house chicken). I have the chicks brooding in the room where he slept and my cat now wants to be buddies with the chicks and keeps managing to slide in between the baby gates. She's a very petite cat. She dislodged the one gate to the point the chicks got out, walked across the kitchen and into the family room where the computer is. They are very curious little buggers.

OH no I am sorry to hear about Rupert.



I can't for the life of me remember who it is but someone here has a whole room for their kitties.
Adrikeen...has a whole room in her house for chickens!
I giggle.

 

[adrikeen]

Heat! HA! I just had to put fans in the chicken coop for the big girls and they are all doing their best Marilyn Monroe impression.

 

[Kiki]

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[Tesumph]

Heck no...we don't need added heat.
I think it is ok for the first few days but after that outside with no heat is perfectly fine.
They do so much better in cooler temps.

Cool. So I could put the day old chickies in the secured coop outside and they’ll be good until they’re old enough to be in the run?