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Auntiearielschickens

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Apr 15, 2022
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Hello everyone! So good to be here! This is my first time owning chickens. I have 14 that are about 7 weeks old. I got an assortment so I'm not sure on some of the breeds but I think I have..
1 Egyptian Fayoumi
3 leghorns a brown and two Exchequer
4 cochins
1 white maran.... Maybe
1 black copper maran.... Maybe
2 polish
2 Delaware
I live in central Minnesota, and I am loving having chickens. My big question right now is when can I put them outside. Being in Minnesota it's still kinda cold. THey are fully feathered but literally last night we got two inches of snow. Soon it'll be 60 in the day, but can get close to or below freezing at night. And maybe will stay that way through may. You just never know in a Minnesota spring:) it can be summer one day and winter the next. I don't have any heat going to the coop. let me know your thoughts:)
 
I do have a producer's pride brooder/heater but it doesn't seem to actually provide much heat unless they are like right next to it. I could maybe do that, but their coop is a tractor with a coop and run, and would be moving around the yard and I'm not all that comfortable with an extension cord running all the way out there. But maybe that's not actually a big deal.?
 
Auntiearielschickens said:
I do have a producer's pride brooder/heater but it doesn't seem to actually provide much heat unless they are like right next to it. I could maybe do that, but their coop is a tractor with a coop and run, and would be moving around the yard and I'm not all that comfortable with an extension cord running all the way out there. But maybe that's not actually a big deal.?
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Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.
The PP heater would be fine.
You could also give them a huddle box. I'd move them out immediately.
 
Hello, welcome to BYC! Have you started gradually introducing them to the outdoors? I know it is much warmer during the day, but it will help. Also, is the room they are in heated? Perhaps you can reduce the heat gradually, so that they can get a little more used to the cold, before going out. Without electricity in the coop, your options are limited.
 

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