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[saminthefarm23]

do 2 week old baby chicks sleep through the whole night? when do i stop giving my chick heat? also is it a good idea to cut off the wings of a chick? also my chick has been inside with us my house but once i take it outside will it be hard on her to get use to it?.

 

[Debbie292d]

It all depends on where you are, what the weather is, and whether you have a safe area for the chicks outside. Two-week-old chicks can go out, but they're still very young. They'd still need to be kept around 80-85F as they haven't fully feathered for a few weeks yet.

I don't know what you mean by cutting the wings off your chicks. We don't cut wings off chicks.

They do sleep if it's dark. They need sleep like we do, around 8 hours. I shut the light off in the brooder and go to bed. It gets turned on again when I get up.

This is just a guide. My silkie chicks are usually a week ahead of this.

 

[Callender Girl]

Okay, I'm going to hope you meant cut the feathers, not the wings off your chick, which would be barbaric and would kill the chick. But, I wouldn't cut any feathers, either; the practice known as "wing clipping" to remove flight feathers isn't at all necessary for really young chicks.

Good advice from @Debbie292d.

As suggested in her chart, I would begin taking the chick outside for a little while at a time and build up to moving her outdoors so it isn't such a major adjustment. Mine are often ready for the complete move by the sixth week.

 

[Altairsky]

Chicks need their wings to have a chance to escape predators. Cutting them make them an even easier prey.

 

[saminthefarm23]

It all depends on where you are, what the weather is, and whether you have a safe area for the chicks outside. Two-week-old chicks can go out, but they're still very young. They'd still need to be kept around 80-85F as they haven't fully feathered for a few weeks yet.

I don't know what you mean by cutting the wings off your chicks. We don't cut wings off chicks.

They do sleep if it's dark. They need sleep like we do, around 8 hours. I shut the light off in the brooder and go to bed. It gets turned on again when I get up.

This is just a guide. My silkie chicks are usually a week ahead of this.

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thank you so much for the chart but omg that sound sooo bad about the wing i meant the feathers wing but obviously not right now cause it’s still young but my parents are from the rancho of mexico and they said that’s a common thing they do over there it was just a question i was never going to do it.

 

[saminthefarm23]

Okay, I'm going to hope you meant cut the feathers, not the wings off your chick, which would be barbaric and would kill the chick. But, I wouldn't cut any feathers, either; the practice known as "wing clipping" to remove flight feathers isn't at all necessary for really young chicks.

Good advice from @Debbie292d.

As suggested in her chart, I would begin taking the chick outside for a little while at a time and build up to moving her outdoors so it isn't such a major adjustment. Mine are often ready for the complete move by the sixth week.

omg that sound sooo bad about the wing i meant the feathers wing but obviously not right now cause it’s still young but my parents are from the rancho of mexico and they said that’s a common thing they do over there it was just a question i was never going to do it.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Some people clip wings. My chickens and moat of my ducks don't have clipped wings, but I have some ducks with clipped wings for their own safety.

 

[Debbie292d]

thank you so much for the chart but omg that sound sooo bad about the wing i meant the feathers wing but obviously not right now cause it’s still young but my parents are from the rancho of mexico and they said that’s a common thing they do over there it was just a question i was never going to do it.

I've had two macaw parrots for a decade and one of them for over two decades. I don't usually clip them as hauling them back and forth to the aviary has become a habit they know well. There is a particular way I had learned to do it for one wing per bird.

I found this article, which basically outlines the way to do it when the time comes and only if you actually need to for their own safety.