Hi,
Our hens are to be pets (and egg providers) and therefore we'd like to have a good relationship with them. We've read that holding them from as early as day 1 is important so the chick can build up a "tolerance" to being a pet (as by nature they're not pets).
My question is:
If the house temperature is 70 degrees with 60% humidity (average) and baby chicks are supposed to be in a brooder under a heat lamp on one side of the brooder at 95 degrees the first week and decreasing that by 5% every week thereafter (according to virtually every single source I have read)....how long can they be out of that and how often?
We want to hold them from the get-go ...but I want them healthy, too...so how often and how long is okay?
Thanks in advance
Our hens are to be pets (and egg providers) and therefore we'd like to have a good relationship with them. We've read that holding them from as early as day 1 is important so the chick can build up a "tolerance" to being a pet (as by nature they're not pets).
My question is:
If the house temperature is 70 degrees with 60% humidity (average) and baby chicks are supposed to be in a brooder under a heat lamp on one side of the brooder at 95 degrees the first week and decreasing that by 5% every week thereafter (according to virtually every single source I have read)....how long can they be out of that and how often?
We want to hold them from the get-go ...but I want them healthy, too...so how often and how long is okay?
Thanks in advance
