Featherlove23
Chirping
At what age is best to move ducks from a brooder pen to the coop outside. If I remember correctly my ducks are going on 4 weeks old. They are huge. 5 times the size when I got them as babies. My only problem is that my chicks are in the same brooder pen as them. They have bonded so much to the point that they are inseparable. If the can't see the chicks they start what I call a duck screaming. It's very loud. And likewise for the chicks to the ducks. Where the ducks go the chicks follow and same for the other way around. The chicks are still to small to be put outside. They still have almost another month before they are able to be outside. But the ducks are slowly and quickly running out of room the brooder pen. I try to keep them outside on the warmer days so they aren't in a brooder pen that they have almost grown out of. But lately it's been very windy. (Cold wind). I hate keeping them in it at there size but we don't have a bigger pen. They're brooder pen is actually an old coop that's been modified. This is a slightly old picture the top insulation isn't there anymore. has to keep the heat in somehow. Anyone worried about the cat. She likes to watch them, has never touched them and the top has wire to keep cats out that's what the insulation is sitting on.