Are These Birds Old Enough To Go Out To The Coop?

[Allagash]

I got these birds as chicks the last week of March. The low temperature looking out 10 days on Weather.com shows the coldest of 39 for my area. Judging by how feathered (or lack of) they are, would you say they're ready to go out to the coop? I currently have a light in their pen that's pretty high up but some of them still sleep close to under it. I can post better pictures if you need them...

 

[ButchGood]

I would put them in the coop. If temps are dropping into the 30's I'd drop a heat lamp I a corner in case they need it. If lows were 50 or above I'd forget the lamp.

 

[cafarmgirl]

I would put them in the coop. If temps are dropping into the 30's I'd drop a heat lamp I a corner in case they need it. If lows were 50 or above I'd forget the lamp.

That's what I'd do too.

 

[BrendaJ]

X3 ... Let them out to enjoy some freedom.

 

[cafarmgirl]

They do look like they're raising heck in there don't they?! Lots of blurry birds in those pic's!

Definitely time to go outside!

 

[Allagash]

How essential would the light be? I'm not sure if I've got enough cord to reach the coop! It's like 125' away.

And yes...they are raising hell in their pen in the garage. I think they'd love to go in the coop. Also, I've still got the plexiglass covering all of the windows in the coop so there will be no drafts coming in other than through the eves which isn't much...

 

[Chickens R Us]

My chicks look to be the same age and i have them in a 5'x10' pen in the back shed I have a brooder lamp with a 100 watt red reptile bulb on one end and they all sleep on the other end.It gets into the 20's and 30's F. at night. They must not need the warmth but I leave it on just in case.

 

[annav410]

I moved my chicks out to the coop when they were 6 weeks old. They didn't look that different from your chicks. We didn't put a heating lamp out and we have had some crazy cold weather here in Colorado. My husband came up with an idea to warm up their coop which worked great. On the nights that we got to 20 degrees, we put a 5 gallon bucket of boiling hot water, tightly sealed, into the coop and it worked great! It kept our 6x6 foot coop warm enough that the water didn't freeze and the chicks would huddle next to the bucket on the cold nights. We could have run a extension cord but felt this was a safe option. It worked so well that we will use it next winter.