Should i have chicks in the winter?

[Tuffnut The Rooster]

I need to know as a 1st yearer having chickens if I should have chicks in the winter or wait until spring next year to do it.

 

[tripletfeb]

I need to know as a 1st yearer having chickens if I should have chicks in the winter or wait until spring next year to do it.

It all depends on your situation. Do you currently have chickens and is one broody? Or do you plan on getting chicks and raising them yourself?

 

[DonyaQuick]

What are your winter low temperatures like? Chilly-but-mild and well-below-freezing are two very different cases for young chickens.

 

[kengboss21]

I’m currently raising chicks and it’s about to be winter for me, they’re about 3 weeks old and night temps reach 40 or lower. They have a brooder plate but they’re still outdoors. I like raising in fall/winter because they’ll be ready to lay the moment spring comes, rather than getting chicks in spring and having to wait til mid-late summer

 

[Penpal]

It would help if you added your location to your avatar thingie. Like "Michigan" if you live in Michigan, U.S.A. Queensland if you live in Queensland, Australia.

 

[Tuffnut The Rooster]

It all depends on your situation. Do you currently have chickens and is one broody? Or do you plan on getting chicks and raising them yourself?

I need to know as a 1st yearer having chickens if I should have chicks in the winter or wait until spring next year to do it.

Also i live in Western Canada and it gets almost -10 degrees celsius so a bit cold.

 

[Tuffnut The Rooster]

What are your winter low temperatures like? Chilly-but-mild and well-below-freezing are two very different cases for young chickens.

Below 0 degrees C a lot of the time.

 

[Tuffnut The Rooster]

Below 0 degrees C a lot of the time.

Sometimes -10 C.

 

[Debbie292d]

I have 3 silkies that are now 5 weeks old in a wood brooder in our living room. They aren't fully feathered yet and our lows are 20F/-7C. So I'll wait to put them out for another week or two, but then with a Cozy Coop radiant heater in the hutch of the temp coop. They can't go in the main coop as they'd get pecked to death. Today we're getting a high of 50F, so I'm going to put them out today for a while. I have to shovel first or hope it melts fast lol.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

It all depends on how your coop is heated. I am doing a hatch right now because I use the non plug in heater that you can find at Tractor Supply in my coop and it works really well. I like it because its not like a heat lamp that can cause fires.