gailll
Hatching
- Apr 30, 2017
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- 6
I just got my first bunch of chicks and in all of the excitement, we may have made a mistake. I am definitely learning A LOT this week, as I go.
The nice man at the feed store did not stop me from buying chicks that are many weeks apart in age and now I am very concerned about what temperature I should be keeping all of them (6- 5 week olds; 6- 4 week olds; 1- 1 week old) and when to put them all out, into the coop. I have them in a small room with a brooder at about 84°.
I don't want to separate them if I don't have to, for fear that they wont get along in the end. I just read that if I keep the older ones too warm that I can ruin them for life...ugh!!! But we all (Hubby and 3 kids) LOVE the baby, and I don't want her to get too cold. They are getting pretty rambunctious and the baby IS holding her own quite nicely. The only foreseeable problem is that I am over heating the majority that could probably all go out to the coop soon. I JUST DON'T KNOW NUTHIN' 'BOUT RAISIN' NO CHICKENS! (LOL!)
The nice man at the feed store did not stop me from buying chicks that are many weeks apart in age and now I am very concerned about what temperature I should be keeping all of them (6- 5 week olds; 6- 4 week olds; 1- 1 week old) and when to put them all out, into the coop. I have them in a small room with a brooder at about 84°.
I don't want to separate them if I don't have to, for fear that they wont get along in the end. I just read that if I keep the older ones too warm that I can ruin them for life...ugh!!! But we all (Hubby and 3 kids) LOVE the baby, and I don't want her to get too cold. They are getting pretty rambunctious and the baby IS holding her own quite nicely. The only foreseeable problem is that I am over heating the majority that could probably all go out to the coop soon. I JUST DON'T KNOW NUTHIN' 'BOUT RAISIN' NO CHICKENS! (LOL!)