Quote:
So you still keep a heat light on them at 13 weeks? Some of mine (hatchery) started laying at 16 - 18 weeks. I must be a real meanie .... my other chicks (hatched Sept 21, and Oct1), have been without heat lights since they were 8 weeks old. Actually, they are doing fine ... runnin' around outside like it's 70* here. The temp today is in the 20s, but last night was 9.
My babies that I moved out to the big coop and doing great! They go back and forth, under the light and out to play in the cold (all inside the coop). The remaining hatchery birds are leaving tomorrow, and the Dellies will be joining the Halloween hatch chicks in the coop. They will have the whole coop to themselves. I am off tomorrow, so you know what I will be doing! Cleaning house (coop, that is). I am guessing I need to change out all the bedding for new. Although, it really isn't very dirty. I have a droppings board, and clean off the poo each day, so there really isn't alot in the bedding.
Yes my spoiled babies still have a heat lamp...we have not seen a day near freezing in over a week and our nights are horribly cold and wet. They are in an uninsulated garage that without the heat lamp, gets down to below freezing inside during the night. I would have heart failure if anything happened to my Suede babies....Thor is my sweetie and those two Dellies are precious to me too. If it was not so windy and rainy, I would move them outside now but, I think it is going to be another week because we are having freezing rain for the next week. *sigh* As soon as I enclose their little coops and put up some wind barrier on the garden fence, then they can go outside.
She's one of my favorites, personality wise and aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
