When can I move them outside? it's been dropping to the 30s!

[SilverLacedLady]

So i have 5, approx. 5 week old SLWs, They are currently in the garage in a brooder that is a rabbit cage, with feeder, waterer, and heat lamp. I know the temp is in the 80s, but I know it needs to be cooler. They aren't to cold at night because they don't sleep under the lamp all hudled together. I guess my question is how soon do you all think I can put them outside in the coop?

 

[newchicksnducks]

I put my girls out in the coop when they were 5 weeks old, but I did run an extension cord to the coop and used the heat lamp. We had our brooder inside, and by the time we were on batch #3 within 3 months, we were tired of all the dust I would feel best leaving them without the heat lamp once the night time temps reached the appropriate temp for the age of your bird (at 5 weeks that should be about 70F degrees. In a few weeks the temperatures outside will raise and the age of your bird will allow you to go without the lamp)

 

[SilverLacedLady]

Thank you so much, I'm just trying to figure out how to rig the lamp, I bought a coop kit, and I know that when they grow up a bit I'm going ot have to make it bigger, the roosts are to skiny they're like a perch for a cockatiel, and when they are full grown if i make the roost wider but leave it at the same level they'll hit thier head on the ceiling. and I sure don't want to lamp to burn them, or burn the coop down. I think I may need to make it all taller ASAP and give them wider roosts, and raise them up too. Grr. I need to post pics of my coop. it's only 40"w X 40" t(at the peak in the middle) and 52"L. to roosts are only like 1" wide.