Hi I have my 11 growing quick, still haven't established who is a roo, but looks like I have plenty of females, at the moment they are in the house with the heat if they need it, how long do they need that extra heat? I'm amused at the fact that I have 2 chicken chicks with a heat lamp and 4 with a mom outside running around in the tractor run outside, I'm guessing that the 1s outside have gotten used to the cold and it would shock the indoor chicks more to bring them outside, just like us florida people as soon as the temp drops 10 degrees we're freezing, and I know from living over in scotland I didn't used to feel the cold like I do now, I probably should have kept all the chicks with the heat lamp outside in screened porch so they felt a little of the cold.
ok the question is when do I take the heat lamp away?