They have plenty of water access. There is no draft but barn is somewhat cold but not cold enough to worry about they should be able to withstand it. They have natural light shining through roof and poultry light on timers that comes on. The birds are three weeks behind on body weight which I forgot to mention. The changes we are making is to feed them more and feed them before sun set so food can burn in their stomachs to keep them warm. We also will move them to perches at night to teach them where to sleep.
Yes you are right this is not good was just showing the problems we were having we will move chicks on perches at night to break this habit of piling.
I didnt mean to sound so harsh but yes improvements need to be made we all learning no matter hoe long we had poultry i respect that you are taking our advice in stride just please they need a lot more room and daylight if poss?
They are feed brooder feed can't tell you right now what exactly is in but we are going to add grit to their diet. They are too old for brooder rooms and they will sleep on perches from now on.
Located in Maryland we are having a cold winter
Currently we are dumping buckets of their feed in long feed chain they are not crushing each other when feed or watered. They looked over crowded in picture because they all chose to sleep in a single brooder room but they have entire barn too run about and when fully grown they will have outside access. They have natural and artificial light. The ventilation is ok in barn but not as well in brooder rooms. We have installed fans and vents in brooder rooms to help ventilate. We have enough help to transfer birds to perches. At night birds are a lot calmer so we can move them to perches a lot easier. We are organic farm on our first years so we are still learning. I have read you must feed each bird more for every degree below freezing so we made that change and are feeding them before sunset and in morning. Thank you
