When should I take heat away from my chicks?

[Salfergirl]

I’m currently brooding quails indoors. I will be moving them to a garage-type building soon and am wondering when I should take their heat block away. They are fully feathered and in a pen indoors. The temp is around 55 in that room. They comfortably run around the pen and don’t seem to crowd underneath the block too much.

 

[Nabiki]

If they are fully feathered (around six weeks), then they should be fine without heat. I usually remove heat around 3-4 weeks if they're indoors and start acclimating them to outdoor temperatures so they're completely cold hardy by around 8 weeks. If the weather is warm, they may get kicked outside as early as 4-5 weeks.