Henfla
Songster
Hi! My chickens are now 4 weeks old, and I know it's a bit early to move them outside, but the weather has been nice lately and they have grown out of their brooder and they have been outside at daytime the last 5 days, and they just love being outside. I have the Eglu Cube coop from Omlet, and I installed a brooder heat plate inside of the coop since they are only 4 weeks old and also used sawdust inside the coop instead of the rooster bars because their feet are too small for the rooster bars I think. They seemed to settle inside as long as the door was open so they got daylight inside the coop, and it was nice and warm in the coop, but when I closed the door for the night they got extremely stressed and I just had to take them back inside the house for the night because they didn't stop chirping. The thing is that I live in the arctic and we have midnight sun, so they aren't used to darkness at night in their brooder. What should I do?