Outside baby chickens

[Bdlk2023]

When’s the best time for baby chickens go out side permanently am located in Mohave county there going to be 6 weeks in may … also have 3 hens the best way to introduce 15 chickens all female

 

[rosemarythyme]

If you can run electricity out to the coop, the best time is "immediately." I brood outside so chicks start the first stages of integration as soon as they arrive.

If you can't run heat out then you need to acclimate them to outside temperatures so they can stay out day and night without heat, which depends on the outside temperatures as well as the types of chicks you have - healthy standard breed chicks can handle down to around mid 40s by 4 weeks from my experience (I don't have colder temps to test).

As far as integration, there's several ways to do it, but for chicks to adults I suggest a few weeks of see but no touch, and then a little supervised interaction, and go from there. I do early integration, so chicks join the adults full time around 4 weeks of age: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/short-on-time-recycle-a-prefab-brooder.73985/