Sunroom remodel, wall opinions?

[Ruralhideaway]

Close enough to them to worry me. Not blowing hair. Not really big drafts, just shy of drafts I guess. I can keep hunting the source down. I think it's the vents though, winds here are bad and yesterday throughout the day I was watching, the winds changed direction several times. No side is the less windy side really.

You think just cold turkey them out of the brooder? Most still sleep in there. I'm fretting, they are still such babies.
p.s. They are 15 weeks.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

I zipped out there and built another ramp to try to get the lazier babies up there. It's in an awkward place so I hinged it and added a snap to clip it up when its in my way.

 

[aart]

Is that a heat light and always on?

 

[Ruralhideaway]

It's a 70 watt reptile heat light. Its been off for a bit but they looked really cold last night. Honestly doesn't do much. Water still freezes in the brooder.
*ugh keep posting too soon accidentally

 

[aart]

I'd cold turkey them out of the brooder.
Are the older birds roosting in the brooder too?
Put the older birds on one roost, the youngers on another after dark if necessary.
Is this your first winter with chickens?
It's hard to watch, but they are tough!

 

[Ruralhideaway]

Ha good observation. Not exactly. My first anything with chickens in about 15 years! I've been away since my kids were little. They are largely grown now.

Never had anything but broody raised young ones in cold weather. Nothing I felt responsible for. I wasn't a very educated chicken keeper back then, didn't know enough to worry.

This process certainly got delayed by the rat I had. Killed the rat, cats killed the smaller rats. Dug lots of trenches, no more rat incursion. Then it got crazy cold, -12 type cold.

The bigger ones roost at night properly, they did ok last night. No one seems inclined to join them although the brooder isn't closed up.

I can put them in a different place tomorrow night. Giving them today to discover the new ramp.

The roosts over the brooder are super high, kind of regretting that.

 

[aart]

Roosts on top of brooder area are not super high in this pic, they look perfect to me, and you've got a separate roost for the youngers to the left there.
They should be able to fly up and down from all those with ease.
Close the brooder doors....and see what happens, go out after dark and put any birds that are not on the 2 roost areas there. Might take a few nights of that and they'll figure it out.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

I think it's about 50". I'll boot the big ones up there. They don't go up much either. Mostly the Easter eggers spend time up there. New ramp should help.

 

[aart]

Take the tape out there......my guess 3', maybe a bit more.
They'll love it...eventually.

 

[Ruralhideaway]

That's what i figured when i planned it, recalling my freerangers sleeping in the barn loft sometimes.

It's the shelf I built in for the heat light that did it, suddenly it got real high. Measured partway down into the deep litter. See it's really high. Ceiling height in there is between 8'6" -9'.