Whens a good age to put chicks outside?

[PeaPod117]

My chicks and ducks are about 4 1/2 weeks old right now. I saw that people usually put their chicks out permanently at 5 weeks. They are outside in the hutch right now, it’s 1:20 am and the temperature is about 56-57 degrees (that’s the lowest it’s gonna be). My mom didn’t want me to put a brooder lamp out there in fear of the extension cord short- circuiting. I checked on them and they were laying close but not exactly huddled, and they somewhat acknowledged me but other than that remained asleep (as they usually tend to do, but I don’t know if this might be a bad sign of it being too cold). I’m not too worried about the ducks because they’ve been living in our garage for a while now and ducks are more resistant to the cold, but I just wanna make sure I’m not gonna wake up to dead chicks or ducklings tomorrow morning!

 

[cavemanrich]

With those temps you stated, they should be fine. Make sure that they eat before they are tucked into bed. This way they have food burning into calories (body heat) overnight.
Make sure they are in a draft-free area.
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[tacothechicken]

Stick my chicks out at 3 weeks whith a single lamp and they do just fine even in full blown winter as long as they aren't getting wet or windy. How many are their? Ducks are much better about lack of heat than chicks, mine stopped using a lamp at 4 weeks. But I actually had a few power outages over winter during wind or rainstorms and as long as you have enough chicks in such scenario, they should be totally fine till you come out in the morning. The sooner you put them outside, sooner they'll feather out and adjust. Our 15 youngest chicks are 5 weeks and now perch whithout want or need for any sort of heatlamp unless it is windy or rainy out although I supply it any ways.

 

[PeaPod117]

Stick my chicks out at 3 weeks whith a single lamp and they do just fine even in full blown winter as long as they aren't getting wet or windy. How many are their? Ducks are much better about lack of heat than chicks, mine stopped using a lamp at 4 weeks. But I actually had a few power outages over winter during wind or rainstorms and as long as you have enough chicks in such scenario, they should be totally fine till you come out in the morning. The sooner you put them outside, sooner they'll feather out and adjust. Our 15 youngest chicks are 5 weeks and now perch whithout want or need for any sort of heatlamp unless it is windy or rainy out although I supply it any ways.

I have 3 chicks and 2 ducklings right now. Once I build their coop, I’m planning on purchasing more from TSC