Good luck chickies

[Carenm]

1st night in the coop. Almost 6 weeks old and it will be in the 50's tonight. DH worked hard on our coop and we learned a lot from this forum on keeping them safe.

Hoping for the best.

 

[bock]

Um, ok?

 

[pdsavage]

Im sure everything will be all right....

 

[bantybev]

It can be a bit stressfull to put the babies in the coop the first night. Did you slowly acclimate them for the lower temps, or are you using a heat source till it gets warmer at night? IMO 50 is a little cool for 6 week olds if they haven't been acclimated. My 6 week olds are just starting to feather nicely, but no where near fully feathered yet. I wouldn't put them directly from a warm evironment into 50 degrees myself. I am known to be over-cautious, so would like to hear others' opinions, too.

 

[Carenm]

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I think we have slowly acclimated them. We've been putting them out in the morning when it's been in the 50's for over a week now. It warms up to the 70's but starts out cool. In their coop it's actually pretty warm for most of the night, in the 60's until about 3-4 AM. They have plenty of bedding and body heat so I think they will be ok. In our house we've had them overnight in the 60's and they have been fine. They've been without their heat lamp for about 2 weeks now. Since we got them as babies they have never been fond of the heat actually. When they were a week old 80 was plenty warm for them. Anything above and they were on the outskirts of the brooder.


More worried about predators than the temperatures

 

[YumaJohnny]

Very cool - I'm in Southern Arizona and when I first put my chicks out it was same temps and they did just fine. They turn a year old on April 16th and they sure have changed.

Best of luck!!!