When to cover brooder??

[spryng]

I agree with all of the suggestions, but you may have to be a bit nifty with the keets - some of mine are 8 days old and they’re already flapping around. They’re in a dog kennel after I caught one of the 3 week olds hopping around the porch where the brooder is - the sides of the brooder are over 3’ tall! The keets also tend to be a bit more rowdy, so keep an eye on them to make sure they aren’t being too rough with the chicks. Enjoy them while they’re young! Once they get a teeny bit older, they’ll scream their heads off if you do so much as put your hand in their brooder to grab their empty food container. Pretty sure I woke up the entire neighborhood the other night when I gave one some nutri-drench and she clearly thought I was murdering her.. there were cows and roosters screaming the rest of the night, not to mention all of my animals being worked up!

Lmao! They sound awesome lol well I only got chicks this time, they did not have any keets so just 13 chicks to care for and this summer I'll add in guineas

 

[baby-blue]

They really are awesome! They’re definitely much wilder and more instinctual than the chicks. I’ve been putting perching logs and branches in with the keets and they all huddle in one corner, sqwaking, until one is brave enough to go and check it out. They’re also hilarious if there’s a bug in their kennel - if you’ve never seen a hoard of juvenile birds flapping and racing after a fly, you’re missing out! They also had a MASSIVE millipede in there the other night. They all surrounded it and took turns pecking at it until it was dead and in pieces, and then they all took a chunk and ran off to eat it. Any bug around here had better watch out once I ‘release the beasts’!

 

[spryng]

They really are awesome! They’re definitely much wilder and more instinctual than the chicks. I’ve been putting perching logs and branches in with the keets and they all huddle in one corner, sqwaking, until one is brave enough to go and check it out. They’re also hilarious if there’s a bug in their kennel - if you’ve never seen a hoard of juvenile birds flapping and racing after a fly, you’re missing out! They also had a MASSIVE millipede in there the other night. They all surrounded it and took turns pecking at it until it was dead and in pieces, and then they all took a chunk and ran off to eat it. Any bug around here had better watch out once I ‘release the beasts’!

Lmao! Oh I can't wait for some! That's awesome!