ok for coop at 6 weeks?

[lisa new chickens]

I have 2 Chochin Bantams, 1 roo, 1 pullet (6 weeks old0. They are out all day in the coop with 1 meat hen (14 weeks). She accepts them now after 2 days. I bring them in at night for the brooder in the house. I live in north Georgia and the nights are in the high 50's low 60's now. i have 2 more chicks at 3 weeks I am wanting to transfer to the older chicks brooder. I have a 'Chicken Cabin" (for 4 to 6 Bantams), if anyone is familiar with this type of coop, it is not real big and is open with galvanized steel at the perch sites, top and bottom. I figured I could train them to go into the semi-closed top, eventually (the meat hen did. I put a nesting box in the run (next to the coop), and the meat hen thinks it is her bed!

..So does anyone think I should put the 6 week olds out yet??...HELP!..I did not know raising 3 sets of chickens could be so difficult.

 

[greenpeeps]

Put them out. Mine went out at 3 weeks and a few nights got into the 30's, and their still kicking.

 

[kateseidel]

Hmmm - mine are 7 weeks, and have been in the coop for 3 weeks, but I do have a heat lamp in one corner. It has been COLD the last three nights, but warm tonight. Last night, they were all huddled under the heat lamp, but most nights for the last couple of weeks they do not stay under the light. I think it is warm enough for them, but...well...I've got the lamp and my red neck extension cord wiring so....