I have chicks that will be 4 weeks by the end of the week. The plan was to move them out to their coop sometime this week, but the temperatures have dropped. It might be down to 10 C during the day and 7 C at night at the lowest. I don't want to keep them indoors any longer than I have to, both because of the mess, but also because they're running out of room as they grow. I have a heat lamp in the coop and I also plan on bringing the heat plate, but the coop is about 3 square meters in floor space and I'm worried they'll get cold and not figure out how to get warm since they're not familiar with the new space. At the moment the chicken coop holds 17 C with the heat lamp on and it's a cold overcast day. The coop is insulated and predator proof. They won't go outside yet.
Would you move them? Can they handle the temperature change? It's about 24 C in the room they live in now and they have stopped using any extra heat sources a long time ago. They always sleep as far away from the heat source as possible. Or would you wait and move them until they are older/weather warms up. On the current forecast it seems to be a long time away until it gets warmer.
Would you move them? Can they handle the temperature change? It's about 24 C in the room they live in now and they have stopped using any extra heat sources a long time ago. They always sleep as far away from the heat source as possible. Or would you wait and move them until they are older/weather warms up. On the current forecast it seems to be a long time away until it gets warmer.