Tips and tricks

[Nuts4FluffyButtsi]

Hey everyone!

so I have 13 chicks and half are 7 weeks and half are 6 weeks. Currently, they’re in my sunroom and as much as I love them close by, the smell is becoming overwhelming. I clean the “coop” twice a week but it’s starting to now be enough. Looking for tips and tricks to reduce the smell.

 

[CluckerFamily]

By this age, they should be feathered enough to be put into the coop.
What is the temperature like where you are?

 

[Craig Cowan]

PDZ mixed with whatever shavings your using.
Really helps

 

[Nuts4FluffyButtsi]

By this age, they should be feathered enough to be put into the coop.
What is the temperature like where you are?

So I put them in my garage last week and they seemed super cold. So I felt bad haha but people also told me it was too cold for them and they were too young. So I’m conflicted

 

[CluckerFamily]

So I put them in my garage last week and they seemed super cold. So I felt bad haha but people also told me it was too cold for them and they were too young. So I’m conflicted

Are they fully feathered? Are they off the heat lamp?
How did they seem super cold?

 

[Nuts4FluffyButtsi]

Are they fully feathered? Are they off the heat lamp?
How did they seem super cold?

I believe they’re fully feathered but it hard for me to tell with the silkies I have. The rest I think are good to go.

still working on weening off the lamp. But we’re at 58 degrees now.

They were just all huddled together so I assumed they were freezing

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

Could you post pictures of them and the coop you plan on putting them into when they're older?

 

[AmeliaBedelia]

I sprinkle a new layer of pine shavings to cover the mess between full clean-outs.

Maybe you could also add some good-smelling herbs to their bedding? Make sure they are safe for chickens to eat though, and that they have access to grit if you use something with leaves, not powder, like rosemary.

 

[Nuts4FluffyButtsi]

Could you post pictures of them and the coop you plan on putting them into when they're older?

Yeah. Let me know if you want better pics. Still building the run but this is the coop itself. The inside is literally a box lol nothing special about it

 

[rosemarythyme]

By this age, they should be feathered enough to be put into the coop.
What is the temperature like where you are?

x2 - best tip would be to move them out soon, they're old enough to be weaning off the heat and your climate isn't overly cold.

With your coop photos, I don;t see any ventilation. Is there ventilation on the other sides that we can't see?