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Welcome to BYC!​
 
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Always nice to meet fellow PNW peeps! How lucky to get a blue egg layer! I have 2 EEs and one lays pale green eggs and the other lays pale brown. :rolleyes:
I also used a mama heating pad to brood my chicks inside the coop, they feathered out quickly and were roosting with my 2 big girls by 4-5 weeks old.
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You've probably read that chicks should be near full-size before introducing to adult birds but that's not necessarily true. When done properly and early (you could start right now) it's really so much easier. These articles can help:
Integrating at 4 weeks old
Coop Brooder and Integration

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Hi and welcome to BYC :frow We're so happy you've decided to join us :ya

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Always nice to meet fellow PNW peeps! How lucky to get a blue egg layer! I have 2 EEs and one lays pale green eggs and the other lays pale brown. :rolleyes:
I also used a mama heating pad to brood my chicks inside the coop, they feathered out quickly and were roosting with my 2 big girls by 4-5 weeks old.
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You've probably read that chicks should be near full-size before introducing to adult birds but that's not necessarily true. When done properly and early (you could start right now) it's really so much easier. These articles can help:
Integrating at 4 weeks old
Coop Brooder and Integration

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Thank you. I do feel lucky to have a blue egg layer as I was told she would be an olive egger. Ameraucana x Black Copper Marans but the egg must have been labeled wrong.

I haven't used the mama heating pad but would definitely do that in the future. Since I've switched out the 250 watt heat lamp for a 75 watt regular bulb they are feathering out very quickly. I would like to get them out to the coop with Ophelia asap. I brought her in to see them and they were all very interested in each other. Hoping for a nice day soon to take them out to see her. The only place I would have to put a mama heating pad in the coop would be one of the extra nest boxes.

Love your roosting area and your girls are beauties.

I'll be reading both of the articles you suggested. :)
 
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