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Hi fellow chicken lovers! I am a senior citizen, living on a 12-acre farm in Indiana. We have about 30 chickens, consisting of Isa-Reds, Black Australorps and Araucaunas. I just obtained my first incubator and out of 12 eggs, hatched four beautiful baby chicks. They are three weeks old now, and I would love to find out which ones are pullets, and which ones are cockrels. Any advice will be appreciated! I am already incubating my next batch, and it is addicting, waiting and wondering which ones will hatch and what they will look like. My next question will be how to care for all these baby chicks in our unheated chicken coop during the fall and winter months, and do baby chicks enjoy having a perch in their cage on which to roost? Or do they have to be older before giving them a perch. Cheers!
 
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I am already incubating my next batch, and it is addicting, waiting and wondering which ones will hatch and what they will look like.
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Hi and welcome to BYC - thanks for joining us.

I find that putting a perch in the brooder encourages the chicks to transition to using roost in the coop, as well as giving them something to occupy their themselves with.

As for gender - try posting pics on this forum, once they are 7-8 weeks old -
http://www.backyardchickens.com/f/15/what-breed-or-gender-is-this

These links may be helpful:
http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/winter-chicken-keeping
http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/winter-coop-temperatures and these:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...first-60-days-of-raising-baby-chickens.47691/

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/hatching-eggs-raising-chickens.22/

Any questions that you may have regarding your chicks will be best posted here - http://www.backyardchickens.com/f/11/raising-baby-chicks

You may wish to consider joining your state thread as it will put you in touch with other BYC members in your area and you can get local advice regarding what peeps near you what folks do with chicks, as winter looms - http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/270925/find-your-states-thread#post_3239224

All the best

Pork Pie
 
About 2 weeks of age or so chicks start practicing their flying skill, and will fly to the top of a brooder. They will need a wire cover to prevent them from falling out and being unable to get back
 
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It sounds like you've already been bitten by the hatching bug, best of luck to you!
 

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