When Can Chicks Go Outside In Coop Full Time Without A Heat Lamp?
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- When Can Chicks Go Outside In Coop Full Time Without A Heat Lamp? That is an often asked question that we will cover entirely. The basic answer is anywhere between 4 and 6 weeks depending on your breed and climate. Help support our family and channel! Shop Amazon through this link: www.amazon.com/shop/countryli...
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I’m a new chick mama and this video was so helpful, especially the part of closing off the coop where they lay eggs until they get to the age of actually laying! Thank you so much!
Awesome! Glad it was helpful.
Yep
Yes!! My chicks only go in coop during a warm day. Installed cardboard yesterday, as I was predator proofing!!
Yes. Very helpful. I learned something today as well.
What age is it when they being laying? I didn’t hear him say
Just ran across this video and it was a great help. I have five 3 wk. old Barred Rocks inside in a covered playpen with heat lamp. The tips on timing, acclimation to coop and waiting a bit on the run have really helped. Loving being a new chicken mom!
Glad it was helpful.
When our chicks were escaping the brooder and flying around the basement is when we moved them outside to the coop. They are very happy now. They have a lot more room to play and fly around.
That’s a good time to move them
Thanks for the confidence boost. I let my 4 week-old chicks out into their run and they are doing fine finding bugs and worms.
Awesome
I'm a chicken farmer in training and this video was very helpful, especially about the nesting boxes.
Awesome. Glad it was helpful.
Extremely through in your description of information!! Just want to say loving your channel!! Blessings to you!
Thank you Connie. I appreciate that.
My hens sometimes decide to go hide somewhere and when they come back they have anywhere between 3-12 baby chicks following behind the hen. I use a cattle trough to keep the hen and baby chicks in with a heat lamp hanging over it on one end. If it’s getting cold I’ll cover the trough with a board and have the heat lamp low enough to keep it warm inside the trough. Now I’ve noticed momma hen will decide on her own when the babies are old enough that she doesn’t feel the need to stay with the babies and will jump out and go back with the rest of the flock again. So the baby chicks spend a while on their own in the cattle trough. I leave them in there till the chicks get old enough that they start jumping up on the edge of the cattle trough and then I move the chicks to a Portable hardware cloth covered run/coop I built that’s on wheels like a wagon and it still has a heat lamp in it if it’s still cold? If it’s cold or rainy out I cover this portable coop/run with a tarp to keep the rain out and the coop warm. But whenever it’s warm and not raining I keep the tarps off so the other flock of chickens can see the baby chicks and visa versa! So the new chicks get introduced to the older chicks and when I do get to letting my chicks loose with the older flock they don’t have much trouble getting along or fighting. BTW, my portable coop/run wagon with wheels also has no floor so the chicks are on the grass underneath. But they have 2 4x4’s on each side the chicks jump up on and there’s another 2x4 up higher in the center of the coop/run wagon that as they get older will jump to the higher roost. Being the chicks poop a lot, since this moves like a wagon, I just move the coop/run wagon once a day or every other day so the chicks have new clean grass to be on. Plus the chicks will eat a little grass too! Least for me this method has worked out really well for me and my chickens. Only thing is when their in the coop/run wagon I have to feed and water the chicks every night before going to bed. When their in the larger coop they got larger containers for water and food and I don’t have to worry about food and water everyday for them. Besides they also have 3 different feeders outside in their run and a couple other water containers. Along with water in different areas on our 5 acres the chickens can get to anytime they want so their never going thirsty! Bugs aren’t a problem, we got lots of bugs! But the funniest one is when I was doing some weeding and came across a small gardener snake. About the time I realized what I was looking at one of my chickens rushed over and grabbed that little snake like lightning and was off at a dead run with the snake wiggling around on each side of her beak. Think my hen thought she hit the lottery when I uncovered that little snake! Of course the other hens seen the snake she had in her beak and then the wild chase was on with all the hens wanting a share of the snake too! Last time I seen that snake! LOL I read the hens will eat mice and snakes, but that was the first time I seen them eat one!
Thank you, my first chicks are 2 days shy of 6 weeks and I'm about to move them outside into their new coop, which I spent the last week building. You shared some very good tips, especially about not letting them into the run too soon, I was going to do that, but wont make the mistake now. Thanks.
You're welcome. Glad the info was helpful.
I'm a new chicken mama and a new subscriber! Thank you for giving such explicit clear information on this subject.
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Very helpful! Thanks! I’m in AZ and it’s springtime! Our lows are in the high 50’s/low 60’s. I have 4 baby chicks with their mamma in a small coop/run right up against the main coop/run. But I also have two new babies from the store in a brooder. Maybe they will be ready sooner than I thought! One is a Rhode Island Red, and you are right about the friendliness! She’s the sweetest! Thanks for the video!
You’re welcome. Glad it was helpful.
Excellent tips here, especially the part about acclimating them to the coop. We did this and it was stress free for them and made for very sociable, well adjusted girls.
Awesome! Glad it was helpful.
Very helpful thank you.
Absolutely perfect video I was looking for! Thank you for all the information, and your 😺 😺 looks just like my 2 .
Keep up the awesome videos!!😄
Thanks. Glad it was helpful.
Great video!! Have 5 chickens getting ready to go in the coop probably next week! Super excited!
We already have the chicks outside, yet with our needing to create the nesting boxes, I appreciate the tip of covering it until they are ready to lay. Thank you. Blessings to you and your family. ~ Laura
You're welcome. Blessings!
Same 💜getting excited! How is your flock now?
We are new to raising chickens (10 White Leghorns) and ours are three weeks old and growing lots of feathers! Your videos are very helpful! Thank you so much!
Awesome! You're welcome
We have been also staying visible and holding t❤he chicks. I whistle beth ovens 5th to them when they are being fed. Now they come to the entrance when they hear us now and are so friendly. We have our hen house and roost almost finished-it will soon be time for them to go out. We are so excited but dont want to rush the process. I have had hens before, just never raised them from chicks. Your information has been helpful.
Thanks for the tip regarding covering the nesting boxes. I didn’t know that. 🙏🙌
Happy to help!
We brooded ours in the hen house with a brooder plate. Has worked great. It was really our only safe option for them.
That's cool.
Thank you for the very helpful transition video! Very very informative
Glad it was helpful.
Thanks for the weekly temperature chart.
You’re welcome
Thank you, you answered so many questions as I am a first time chicken keeper.
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we always wait till feathered out and I still leave a heat light up in an area, I’m lucky enough to be able have two separate areas in the same coop so my chicks can acclimate to everyone so smooth transition, but a wire carrier works great for that too :)
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Getting my first chicks ever. This was extremely helpful, thank you.
This was absolutely informative. I can’t wait to be able to introduce my checks to the outdoors.
Glad it was helpful
Hi this is joefriday that was amazing,the video was very educational and i like the was chicks are being taken care of.
That's great keep it up man
Thanks so much!
Just found you this morning. Thank you for sharing this information with us
You are so welcome
I love how you are with them. Mine are so used to me that they will sit on the porch swing with me
Thank you
I’m living the life and love it. We’ve always had chicks hatched by hens before, this is our first incubation clutch. However, we don’t have a power source in our coop, so we might have to wait until they are full feathered.
Awesome. Yes, make sure they are fully feathered. That is the best insurance to keep them warm in cold temps.
@@CountryLivingExperience We will. Thanks
Your chicks may be cautious of you because you're approaching them from overhead. They are born with the instinct to fear predators from overhead. It may take them a while to see your face is friendlier than a hawk. :-)
Yep. I know. Thanks.
That’s great advice, never thought of that
We’ll,the mommy hen is overhead.
@@marilynerowland1815 mommy hen warm and fluffy. Most of us aren't.
@@marilynerowland1815 true but mommy hen doesn't look like a mountain standing over them LOL
Very well explained as we have 9 day old chicks in bath tub and need a bigger container….will get moving on that…NOW as they are growing fast and it’s still way too cold here in Pennsyvania We are enjoying this first experience 🌈😃🤙
Thank you. Have fun with your chicks.
Great video, needed a reminder on the introduction and timing. I too and thinking of jumping off this iceberg and heading to Texas!
Glad we could help. I got to Texas as quickly as I could.
Do it. We’re from the U.K. We moved away from the London suburbs to the Shropshire Hills and never regretted it. Priorities in life have really changed, material things doesn’t matter anymore. Our hens, fruit orchard and vegetable gardens come first and the sense of freedom is phenomenal. Just go, it’s hard work at first, but you will never want to look back.
@@CountryLivingExperience We moved from the London suburbs to the Shropshire Hills and never looked back. 🐣🐥🐔
This was so helpful!! Thanks for the info!
The tip of closing the nesting boxes is so helpful!!
Awesome! Glad we could help out.
I love your Spartan hat! I moved from Michigan to Vermont... don't understand moving to Texas and all that heat. Love my week old chicks. Thank you for the video.
Thanks. Go Green!
This was great, thank you. Very helpful. 👍😎
Thanks for the info,I've got 15 hens 1 rooster,getting the coop ready to transition from brooder,to regular basis, in a coop,.
You're welcome. Hope it goes smooth for you.
i got the radiator bench heater at tractor supply
the chicks just come and go on the heater at their leisure
sometimes they go under the heater for full heat exposure
sometimes they just hang out leaning on the side of it for a quick warm up
it's awesome
Those are nice. I have one in my brooder.
I'm planning to get chickens soon! Thanks so much for this video!
I've subscribed.
You’re welcome. You will love them.
Excellent video. New subscriber. Best of luck in the future!
Thank you. Same to you.
My chicks are 5 weeks tomorrow, and still love the heat! They are not fully feathered, and it's cold outside since it's winter, but we're all impatient for them to be ready haha
Some take a few longer to feather out. Hopefully you can get them out soon.
@@CountryLivingExperience Very true :)
First year with chics. We apparently purchased chics that were several weeks apart in age. Our leg horns and Rhode Island’s have been In The coop for almost a week and we let them run around during the day. We moved our smaller chics out a few days ago but it’s dropping to 39 degrees the next few nights. Judging by this video they are less than 4 weeks old.
The odd part is our Rhode Island’s looked similar to your 3 week old chics when we originally brought them home (3 weeks ago) Now they are pretty big and almost fully feathered. Our larger batch of chics we brought home 3 weeks ago as well but they look very identical to your chics shown here. Not sure why Store would sell them with that big of age gap.
All a learning experience and the small chics are going back into the brooder for another week or so. Once this cold snap moves through it should be pretty toasty in central KY.
Thanks for the info.
You're welcome. Regular stores don't really keep track. If you order from a hatchery you will get exactly what you ask for. Best rule of thumb is that they can stay outside without heat once they are fully feathered. Some take a bit longer than others.
Good job, done well and I learned some things.
Good tips, thank you!
You’re welcome
Another informative video… grateful 🙏
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Thank you for the tips, very helpful.
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This was wonderful information! Thanks so much!
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We put our chicks out in the coop at 3 weeks. It was mid March this time around. I do begin to acclimate them starting at 1 week by setting their brooder outside in the sun on warmer days. I'm in Illinois so it's still pretty chilly here. Mine have done great!!
I am glad they are doing well. Some chicken breeds are heartier than others. I personally wouldn't take the risk.
We've done well with three different batches this way now. Makes em tough to withstand the elements going forward. I do the same with my seedlings. I don't baby anything.
I enjoyed your video. I was looking for solar ideas to keep the water from freezing during the winter and ran across your video. When I moved my 10 Rhodel Island Reds from the coop in the garage, which was a large dog run fence. I moved them in a dog crate. I kept the dog crate in their dog run. I moved them all at once, at 8 1/2 weeks and moved the dog crate into their new home. The dog crate is still in there and will stay in there. This is where they ran to during the the 1st week after moving them. That might be an idea to use instead of moving them each day to the new area. Just bring their portable sleeping area. They always slept in the dog crate from 2 days old.
Thanks. We actually did that in the very next video we made about those chickens.
Thank you! This video was very helpful!
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Great video good info!
Thank you
Very good ideas/suggestions! Thnk u for sharing this!
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Very helpful-thanks!
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Thanks for your knowledge
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This was very helpful. I have Sussex red chicks, a mix between the red and Rhode. They're going into their 3rd week with feathers starting to sprout. I've been handling them and letting them get used to me. I have 4 hens and two roos. Just working on building the chicken coup now. My chickens will be in my garage. I live in town, and not supposed to have chickens, but my country girl desires country living. I have a large enough yard and some decent neighbors. I'm not concerned about the smell, since I won't have that many chickens and will keep things very clean. For the coup, I got 2 large dog kennel plastic trays for the base and building to fit around those. Kind of like an apartment with food, water on the main, and a couple of laying boxes, then up top two more laying boxes. There will be some sticks for roosting on and so they can climb up to the top boxes and hang out on the upper level if they want. Then the right side of the coup will be more open for future meat birds and just extra space until then. It'll have a door to open in the front so I can pop it open to get eggs. Kinda like what you have on your coup. That's a good idea to know to block off the laying boxes so they don't huddle in there and poop before they're ready to lay eggs. Good advice.
Glad it was helpful!
VERY nice good information I needed
Glad it was helpful!
I'm in N. Texas. Mine usually go out at 4 weeks. The first night or two go out and make sure they all find the coop. A light inside the first few nights works too. Usually a couple are a little smarter and the others learn from watching them.
Some can go out earlier. Basic rule is fully feathered. I usually give the "book" information in my vids.
@@CountryLivingExperience what are your recommendations when it’s 107 temps and your trying to get them acclimated to the coop? Even though their coop will be under shaded area, I don’t want them to bake.
@@Tacocasaking They shouldn't bake. Provide some shade outside of the coop for them too.
Thank you. Just got 15 chicks almost a week ago. 🙏🏻❤️
You're welcome
Great video! I'm hoping to get my chicks in about a week!
Thank you. Have fun with your chicks.
Great tips I haven't seen anywhere else
Glad it was helpful
Thx for that info. My 12 girls are still about 6 weeks, not quite ready. Here in CT it could get low 20's even in April.
Your welcome.
Good video I'm on my first try on my homestead with chickens. I'd totally shoot my shot. You are cute lol
Great Video!! WE have just started on our journey and this helps with solid info!!!.......THANK YOU!!
You are so welcome! Glad it was helpful. Good luck with your homesteading journey.
Very helpful thank you!
You’re welcome
Thank you for sharing this video sir, it helps a lot for me, we also raise chickens. Happy farming
You're welcome. Glad it was helpful.
@@CountryLivingExperience Yes sir, thank you so much❤️
I'm about to start Raising chickens myself soon. Was looking into barred rocks and some broilers. Although I really like the Ayam Cemani breed as well.
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Great, imfo, thanks!!
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We introduce our babies, at 4 months 😊👊🏻 great video 👌🏼
Awesome. Thank you.
Wow! Great, advice, and suggestions. Thank you! I have 3 female Brahma. They were hacked 07-22-2020, they have their feathers on their bodies and on their feet. Cute, and they are huge! I live in Port Orchard, WA. and I have their coop ready, but not their hardware cloth run. I am still working it out in my mind. I am just wondering if I can place them out in the coop and closed-door (closed locked door) with water and food for a few hours each sunny day whether this would be alright? Laverna of Port Orchard
You're welcome Laverna. They can go in that coop for a few hours each day if they are fully feathered and it is warm enough outside. As long as they meet that criteria, they should be good.
good info and thank you can you do a video on what fun things go in the coup maybe as a fun price for us newbies chicken parents?
You're welcome. I can put it on the list and think about how I can craft that video for everyones enjoyment. Chickens do like swings so that is one quick idea.
Thank you.
In the summer in NC, its 70 at night. My chicks have been outside since 1.5 weeks old. They're fine.
I know this is an old vid... Good info .. we keep and breed chickens... We keeo about 200 at any given time. But I gotta say... I noticed at the 5 minute mark.. that bag of top soil in the background.. I think you may agree... It's cheep, but the WoRsT bagged topsoil in the world lol. We bought 24 bags this year... And I wound up just using it to level out low spots in the yard rather than put it in our gardens. Lol
My cats follow me too. They didn't really start following me like this until I got my chickens😍
Lol. Everything loves to eat chickens.
@@CountryLivingExperience 😂 right!
Great video.
Thank you
Just got some chicks for the first time. Hoping it goes well thanks for the tips
Awesome! Good luck with your chicks.
thanks for this informative video. some testimony for your other followers...my (almost) 7 wk barred rocks (fully feathered) are outside now all night without heat in a well built coop. we first let them out a few days in mid 50's to nearly 60 degr temps to acclimatize ( during the day only). after a few days of this i let them out all night with temps upper 40's to about 50 degr and they seem to be just fine. praise God in Jesus' name!
That is awesome!
This was helpful.
Awesome
Fantastic video , also love how the cat stole the show
Thank you
Heya! Good stuff in the video! I do have a question! What's your advice for temp adjustments if I'm using a brooder? I believe the brooder stays between 90-100 degrees on contact to mimic a mother hen! Thanks!!
New chicky mom and I have 3 week old turkins and Olive eggers. We live in Florida and our girls have been outside and doing great. Love my feathered babies
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Thx. Subscribed.
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Yea I'm from Florida so don't need to worry about the heat this time of year, but still loved the video.
Thank you. True...beautiful weather in Florida.
Just found your channel and love it! I have a question though. Why do you use two types of chicken wire on your coop?
Hello and welcome! The lower wire is more expensive because it is tougher. It is attached in the area that common predators enter which is around the bottom. The less expensive wire is above.
my brooder is in the coop. we just put a roof on the brooder if its cold. thanks for the video.
You’re welcome. That sounds like a good setup.
Thanks for going over all the questions I had. Do you ever sell your Barred Rock chickens? I can't find any in Arizona.
You're welcome. We don't sell any chickens, sorry. We bought ours online at www.idealpoultry.com/
Im looking forward to having a homestead in Arkansas.
Wonderful. I hope that happens for you soon.
We built a small box with a small yard in the middle of our run to house the younger chicks hoping that the older chickens would accept them faster. Unfortunately we haven't had much luck, the bigger chickens are brutal with the younger ones & haven't gotten any better after a couple of weeks. We were planning to make a bigger coop & run anyway, so my plan is to put the younger chickens in there & put the rooster in with them for a few days before bringing the older chickens in a couple at a time. Not sure how it's going to go but hoping it works!
I hope it works for you. I have had introduction issues as well. Chickens are fairly mean to each other.
I've had chickens for three years and bought new chicks 4 times.
I had a neighbors dog climb into my free range area and kill a bunch of my chickens so I replaced those birds with chicks in September of last year.
I have multiple roost boxes (3) and each one has a private run. But they are all in the same free range area.
I don't normally allow them out of the private runs until they are nearly full size. I only have one rooster and one hen from the original flock, but the old hen still picks on everyone. Especially at snack time.
I try to have snack time everyday. Even if I just pull some clover and let them pull if off the stem.
I have one hen who never learned to roost on the pole and sleeps in the nesting area, ugh! It does make for dirty eggs. Right now I have a broody hen who hatched 4 chicks. I plan to move them into a portable chicken tractor soon but have them in a stall in the barn under a light. During the day they all go to a protected area outside to scratch and play, then if they get cold they can return to the light source.
Cool. Sounds like you have a lot going on.
finally put the chicks in there new home today (nearly 7 weeks) feel like putting a cam in lol. thanks for the videos we needed that reassurance!
Awesome! I am sure they are happy to stretch their legs.
Hi, great video! May you teach how you can tell the difference between a hen vs. a rooster when they're chicks?
I have three fully feathered 7 week old chicks. 2 are Amauracana mix and 1 is a smaller cochin mix. Hubby is out building the coop while I work from home. They were previously acclimated to 50F temps and now I have them in a massive dog crate waiting for outside temps to get a bit higher as the hottest point of the day it hardly reaches 40-45F. This video was very helpful and informative in our preparation process, however, our coop is too small for the three of them if we close off the laying boxes. I can hardly believe they advertised this tiny thing when we bought it as being able to house 6-8 chickens! Maybe 6-8 quail would fi, but with just three chickens that aren't even fully grown - it is going to be cramped! We are now working to put plywood panels to extend the floor and sidewalls and move the front panel forward an entire section so they will have more room inside it. We will be introducing them over the next few weeks to the coop and the small run it has while waiting for our heavy duty dog kennel panels and chicken wire to arrive on Monday. I really wish we had just returned this tiny joke of a coop and built our own, but now we are stuck with this one, AND going to have to build our own. Oh well, we love our chickens!
Yep, the bigger the better with coops. I am also in the process of building a bigger one.
I'm so glad you said you had chickens in MI. I'm in northern Utah. My chickens are 9 weeks old and are in the coop, but I've kept the heat lamp on because our nights are in the teens. Is there an age at which I should turn the heat lamp off? Do I need to get them used to no heat source slowly? Really feeling nervous about the cold killing them.
As long as they are fully feathered they should be fine. You can play it safe and wait a few weeks after they are fully feathered out. Make sure the coop has some straw on the floor and nowhere for a strong breeze to get through.
I’m in Utah and in the same situation. Our chick will be 10 weeks old. I’m more than ready to get them outside but with it still freezing some nights I’m afraid they might not be ready.
Really good video👍
Thank you! 👍
Hi! Thanks for the great info! Just wanted to know what you put on the inside of your coop? Sand ? Hay? Wood chips?
You're welcome. We put straw in our coop. Sometimes we put wood shavings.
Thanks for the chicken videos! I just found your chicken run video and am building mine based off of your video now! Appreciate it!
You’re welcome. Glad you are here and that we could help.
What kind of heat element do you use in your brooder
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Thank you for this video I’m a first time chick owner, and this video really helped me a lot.
Glad I could help!
I bought my RIRs 24of them yesterday, got the coup and the run just about ready.
With a chicken wire roof.
This video will serve me well....
New subscriber!
Thank you.
My broader is in the coop and I just make it bigger and bigger till they have there hole coop then I start opening up the door to the run for a few hours at the warmest part of the day till they can handle the out side from sunrise to sunset but I have a coop and run for each set I have three at this point
That is a good strategy as well.
Good video
Thank you