sariea
Chirping
I've read a bunch of the other posts about moving chicks outside and I just want to make sure I'm not forgetting anything important, since these are our first baby chicks. They're currently 4.5-5 weeks old, and we're in Rochester NY. My husband wants them out of the house because of the amount of dust his office is accumulating and they're getting a little big for the brooder. Pic of our coop is below (this was 4 years ago before our first batch of chickens "broke it in")
The next 10 days forecast is going to see highs 44-64 and lows of 34-50. We do have wind panels that we put up for the colder months, so they're still up now. We have to clean out the coop and wanted to know if there are any best practices for that. We'll have to dig out quite a bit from the run, but is there anything specific we should do to make sure our chicks remain healthy?
I wanted to wait and put at least a full yard's worth of cut grass in there but that doesn't look like it'll happen, so I think it'll just be pine shavings. My FIL said we should spray everything down with bleach and let it sit for a couple days, but he doesn't have chickens or really any reason to know if that's the correct thing to do.
From reading other posts, I'm assuming they'll be ok outside in these temperatures, but I will also put their heat plate out there with them. Should I put it in the coop or the run?
Any other advice would be great. Thank you!!
The next 10 days forecast is going to see highs 44-64 and lows of 34-50. We do have wind panels that we put up for the colder months, so they're still up now. We have to clean out the coop and wanted to know if there are any best practices for that. We'll have to dig out quite a bit from the run, but is there anything specific we should do to make sure our chicks remain healthy?
I wanted to wait and put at least a full yard's worth of cut grass in there but that doesn't look like it'll happen, so I think it'll just be pine shavings. My FIL said we should spray everything down with bleach and let it sit for a couple days, but he doesn't have chickens or really any reason to know if that's the correct thing to do.
From reading other posts, I'm assuming they'll be ok outside in these temperatures, but I will also put their heat plate out there with them. Should I put it in the coop or the run?
Any other advice would be great. Thank you!!