I would say no. But it all depends-Thanks for starting this thread, glad I came across it. I have six 2 or 3 week old chicks, and will be getting two 3 day old chicks tomorrow. I have the older babies in an extra large indoor dog kennel and I was just going to set up the new babies in a seperate box inside the kennel with a seperate food/water dishes so I didn't have to have brooders all over the house. I am thinking they will be ok, what do you guys think?
1. How big is the brooder that you have? remember the chicks in there need 8 (one per chick) sq ft in total. so if adding the extra box makes that not possible, then new brooder.
2. assuming that you have 8 sq. feet left over (2 extra sq feet for feeder/water), what kind of box do you mean? no cardboard boxes, too stuffy. They need ventilation. no open tops, the others will just in there and possibly kill them.
3. be sure their area is big enough so that in the long run they have 1 square feet each, so 4 in their area, and places so they can get warmer under the lamp and get away from it.
- Haley