and since then they have been full of posturing, faux fighting and attempts to escape from the brooder. I guess that means that they liked it?
Are they getting close to ready to move outdoors? The weather is getting slowly warmer here in San Francisco. We've been fluctuating between ~50 - 60 degrees) the past few weeks and traditionally things get pretty pleasant in May (70 - 90 degrees) before plunging into chilly, foggy, windswept gloominess for June-July-August.
The girls seem to like it when their brooder is at about 70 - 80 degrees. Two of the four are getting pretty well feathered out and looking like teenagers while the other two still look like chicks more or less. Officially they are 19 days old, but I suspect that the most feathered out one is a week older than the rest. My auntie back in the old country (Ireland) who has been a farmer for her entire life, thinks that they should be hardy enough to be outside in the next week or two and warns me that, odor-wise, things are about to take a turn for the worst. Keep in mind that irish weather in the spring and San Francisco in the summer are very similar.
I've ordered a coop that is due next week and in the meantime, I am trying to come up with a cohesive plan for building an outside run to attach to the coop. I have a nice somewhat sheltered location at the end of my yard for the coop & run. If need be, I can hook up their brooder lamp inside the coop at night. Will the girls be ready to go outside by mid - late next week?
Are they getting close to ready to move outdoors? The weather is getting slowly warmer here in San Francisco. We've been fluctuating between ~50 - 60 degrees) the past few weeks and traditionally things get pretty pleasant in May (70 - 90 degrees) before plunging into chilly, foggy, windswept gloominess for June-July-August.
The girls seem to like it when their brooder is at about 70 - 80 degrees. Two of the four are getting pretty well feathered out and looking like teenagers while the other two still look like chicks more or less. Officially they are 19 days old, but I suspect that the most feathered out one is a week older than the rest. My auntie back in the old country (Ireland) who has been a farmer for her entire life, thinks that they should be hardy enough to be outside in the next week or two and warns me that, odor-wise, things are about to take a turn for the worst. Keep in mind that irish weather in the spring and San Francisco in the summer are very similar.
I've ordered a coop that is due next week and in the meantime, I am trying to come up with a cohesive plan for building an outside run to attach to the coop. I have a nice somewhat sheltered location at the end of my yard for the coop & run. If need be, I can hook up their brooder lamp inside the coop at night. Will the girls be ready to go outside by mid - late next week?
