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Thank you for the helpful comments. The light was a substitute for the heat lamp. I didn’t want any possibility of fire in the coop. Should I remove heat lamp from brooder before moving chicks to a coop to solve the light problem with future chicks? Existing chicks do not appear to like being in the dark.Did I as a newbie owner create this problem?
 
Carowii said:
Thank you for the helpful comments. The light was a substitute for the heat lamp. I didn’t want any possibility of fire in the coop. Should I remove heat lamp from brooder before moving chicks to a coop to solve the light problem with future chicks? Existing chicks do not appear to like being in the dark.Did I as a newbie owner create this problem?
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Unless it's below 40 outside, they no longer need heat. Light disturbs their sleep cycles and hormones so it's best they sleep in complete darkness. It's normal the first few nights for them to be scared, they will adapt quickly. Enjoy your babies!
 
Welcome. I am a bad chicken keeper because I still have to chase mine (really though, its not that bad). I leave a nightlight on in my coop every night. I have a clumsy one that when she wants to move places on the roosting bar just plows through other chickens and she is an australorp; so many times, she knocks someone off. I don't want them to not be able to get back up.
 
Carowii said:
My name is Carol and now raising chickens in Virginia; first time chicken owner and loving them! I have 4 Welsummer and 2Ameracauna females, 6 weeks old. I will be getting 4 Leghorn females in November.
I moved chicks 2 days ago into coop and today opened the run. They gradually found their way down a ramp from the elevated coop into the run area. I am looking for advice on training chicks to return to coop. They enjoyed playing and eating all day in the run area, then they laid down underneath the run. I had to catch them to return them to coop. It was painful how scared they were of me when I picked them up. They are used to my voice but run when I try to handle them. Will they learn to love me back and find their way independently up the run ramps into the elevated coop? I also have never left them in the dark… always had a heat lamp or light. How should they be acclimated to the dark or should I continue to give them a light? I tried a night light and they gathered closed to it as if scared of darkness around them. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Best regards and looking forward to participating in the forums. Thank you for being here!
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Our chickens were free range and we put them to bed every night in the coop in about a week they went up by themselves and all I had to do was close the coop door. They also got used to me holding them. You’re doing great!! They will get used to you and will even come to you
 

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