can new chicks have outside time?

[chilling in muscadine]

A mini tractor is good but whatever you do put a top on. I've had a hawk come after a chick while I was standing right there. You don't want to witness that. It's great watching the little cutties try and fly when you put them down though. PEACE

 

[sweetcorn]

We always set our little playpen up under the tree in our yard , both to give us shade while we were chicken watching in the summer heat , and to camoflage them from hawks . Chilling is right about that ! A hawk would try it. Whatever you do , keep an eye on the little sweeties at all times when they are outside until you have secure run ready for them.

 

[cmom]

'ssporter'

I kept my brooder in the barn initially with a 60 watt incandesant bulb in my brooder lamp 24 hrs a day until they started getting their feathers, about 2 wks. Then I made an enclosed area outside in the sun where I put their brooder, then I only put the brooder lamp on at night when I would take their brooder back into the barn.