Queenofchicks
Chirping
Hello I’m Abby, and so I am fairly new to the chicken lifestyle but I have a great support system. I literally have Tractor Supply in my backyard and than my best friend / sister works at a feed store and has chickens of her own! I got day old chicks and now 4 of them are 5 weeks and than I have one that is about to be 4 weeks old. I have 2 Americana chickens, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Cuckoo Maran, and 1 Barred Rocks. I really wanted more blue eggs so the 4 week old is an Americana. Today I picked up their chicken coop and let them play in it for a few hours, and I plan on letting them back there again tomorrow bright and early. My question is, we got a heater/brooder from Tractor Supply and I was wondering if next weekend I could put them in the coop altogether? Or since the one is only 4 weeks should I bring her back in at night until she has more feathers? The other girls have all their feathers and seem to be getting stir crazy in the little cage I have them in. I brought them in tonight to be safe but I’m seeing the weather is staying pretty warm and if I add the heater I have and put them all in there all night starting next weekend will they be okay? I live in Sacramento California so it doesn’t really got all that cold here. I will be doing a few upgrades to my coop like redoing the roof, paint, and giving them some more security.
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