That is worrying, lol. We always brood our chicks in the dining room, but we've never had meaties before. We don't have a garage, only a carport. Eeek.
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That is worrying, lol. We always brood our chicks in the dining room, but we've never had meaties before. We don't have a garage, only a carport. Eeek.
If you have electric in your barn, you can brood them right in the same pen they will be living in/out of.
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do this. Meaties in the house might work for a week or so, but trust me, you'll want them out before much longer than that.
I have chicks in a spare room. Not meaties.. though I DID just hatch two CX crossed with Barred Rock this morning!
They look EXACTLY like CX day olds. I will get some pictures when I return home. Guess I have to be careful who I sell hatching eggs too, because the eggs were marked as Barred Rock. I did not think I had any in this batch.
If you do keep meat chicks in the house, do it somewhere in the house that is not often frequented or used for other purposes and has a door you can close so the dust (and smell) doesn't spread...
You can't do deep litter in the house (it needs ventilation to work out right). Bedding will need to be changed frequently.
My brooder in the spare room (aka chick/hatch room) is 5 x 3 feet. I usually only keep them in there for a couple week max. I sell them out of this room. I can't have people with chickens going to my barn to get chicks. This is the safest way for my flock, and the easiest for me to tend to. The room is only used for hatching and brooding chicks. I don't have furniture to worry about.
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Isnt that chicken abuse no furNATURE. or cable? That way they can have internet so they can HEN peck without losing an eye. I wish this phone had emocons right about now but visulize the one. lying on his side going in circles ha
Oh so punny!
I have a pool room downstairs where we live. It's indoors, temp controlled, tiled throughout with a bar, sinks, showers and open space. Floor to ceiling wrap around windows. We make our large brooders a top rolling carts and keep chicks indoors with no issues until I get tired at about 3 weeks in winter temps, but we have meaties on wire with slide out trays lined in paper we change out daily and have no smell issues as long as we change it daily.
I like having them indoors the 1st week under heat. Then they go out to a outdoor chick brooder to acclimate before being set loose to free range for 6 weeks or so.
Mine free range with my layers by two weeks they're of a good solid size and can run lol
I like having them indoors the 1st week under heat. Then they go out to a outdoor chick brooder to acclimate before being set loose to free range for 6 weeks or so.
Mine free range with my layers by two weeks they're of a good solid size and can run lol
We have a large shed, that has electricity. I will see about keeping them in the house for a week, then moving them out to the shed. I have 15 meaties and 10 standard chicks coming, I should probably think about sorting another brooder box out and separating them.
On a side note, we picked up 4 rolls of 3'x25'x1/2" hardware cloth at Lowe's yesterday for $12 a roll, score! One step closer to chicken tractors.
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Cheep shot Im crying fowl lol
Just as babies. The ones we have now we moved outside at about four or five weeks. Figured since these are bigger we could move out at two to three weeks. Is that not good? It'll be Jersey Giants and Light Brahmas, not the Cornish X. I guess we could put them in the hen house. There is electric in there. We'd have to build them something to keep them safe from the adults.
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