How do you haul chicks outside?

[jeria]

I plan on taking my 3 week old chicks outside this weekend if it isn't too windy. I need to cart these super wiggly babies up the stairs and to the fenced in area they are going to. What do you put them in to get them there? They are getting pretty good with their wings as well.

 

[Top Rooster]

You can put them in a box or bucket

 

[ChickenMammX4]

I used a large box with flap lid

 

[jjchickmom]

I used a plastic tote box with a lid. I lined it with newspaper for easy clean up. Now that they are in their run and coop I use the tote on its side as a place to get shelter and they fly up and roost on it during the day.

 

[azygous]

Here's what I used to do before I began brooding outdoors in my run.

I had a cat carrier, the sort with a door on the front, and I used that to transport my chicks to their outdoor play area. When they got outside, I left the carrier with them with the door open.

This enabled the chicks to emerge at their leisure, as well as return when they felt chilled, signaling they needed to go back indoors. (I began these field trips when the chicks were two weeks old.)

If you don't have a pet carrier, you can fashion one out of a cardboard box by cutting a door in one side to swing open and shut.

 

[ckelley]

I used a deep laundry basket. Put something in the bottom so they don't slide around.

 

[jeria]

Thanks: I never thought about my small dog crate. Could use that as right now I just use it to protect the cat's food from the dogs. That would be easier than trying to carry a wiggling box up the stairs.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I've used pet carrier, wire cage, hand carried, etc.
I had to laugh while visiting my daughter recently. ....she is starting her first flock of her very own this year and hasn't quite finished her coop so is toting her babies back and forth between garage brooder and run (the previous owners of the home had chickens and left the hoop coop....she is using it as her run and building a bigger/better cup than the one they had in the hoop). She simply lowers her pet carrier into the brooder and all six babies hop in because they know they're going out to play.

 

[jeria]

I've used pet carrier, wire cage, hand carried, etc.
I had to laugh while visiting my daughter recently. ....she is starting her first flock of her very own this year and hasn't quite finished her coop so is toting her babies back and forth between garage brooder and run (the previous owners of the home had chickens and left the hoop coop....she is using it as her run and building a bigger/better cup than the one they had in the hoop). She simply lowers her pet carrier into the brooder and all six babies hop in because they know they're going out to play.

Too funny! Hopefully mine will do that after a time or two. My coop and run are not completed yet.

 

[djunafarms]

I use a deep oversized plastic bucket for my 3 week olds. They could easily fly right out of it even though it's a couple feet deep, so I cover it with a towel and carry it outside.