Mixing Different Aged Chicks in Your Brooder | Yes, No, Maybe?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video I'll be moving chicks from different brooders. We have a few brooders for different aged chicks. 1-2 months, 2-4 weeks and 1-2 weeks. You can mix chicks that are different ages if they're close in size. You wouldn't want to put a day old chicks with some month old chicks. But day olds with 3 days olds, sure. 1 week olds with 2 week olds, yeah. 1 month olds with 2 month olds, okay. 1 week olds with 2 month olds, no.
We have indoor brooders and outdoor brooders. We have 2 out door brooder and 3 indoor brooders. We hatch out a bunch of chicks each week. You wouldn't want to put chicks that haven't fully feathered outside unless it's summer and the night time temps are still warm.
We keep a heat lamp on our chicks for about 3-4 days and then they just get a heat plate. This is different in the winter as it can be much colder.
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Love your brooder set up and your very helpful advice!
Thanks. Took me a while to build that.
First vid I have seen where someone uses a heat pad under the chicks instead of a crazy commercial heat lamp. Good man.
Yeah they work great.
I throw mine in with the Quail. Quail can be aggressive, but can never hurt a chicken.🤙🏽
Good to know. Thanks for sharing
I mixed mine. My oldest 2 are mothering the younger ones. the babies follow the older ones which is cute
Yeah it's easy. I've gone as far as mixing 2 week olds and 2 months olds. As long as they have enough space.
Great information thank you
Thanks
I take it you don't name them? 😁 This was very helpful thanks for sharing!
Lol. No. I hatch out too many for that. We name a few of our hens.
I'm getting chick's that are 2 weeks apart. Would it be safe to put the new ones in with the older ones?
I put new chicks in with 1 week old chicks all the time. I've never tried it with 2 week olds. I'm sure it would be fine, but as you're doing it just monitor them. I really wouldn't worry though.
Thank you for this, I am in the exact same boat! I have week old chicks and a set of new chicks on the way today and I was wondering!
@SherPunjabi86 I'm currently sitting in my bathroom floor, trying to acclimate 2, 2-week old RIR's, with 4, 1-week old Bantams (3 of them) and 1 RIR. The 3 Bantams are soooo small and the 2 older RIR's want to peck on them so I'm monitoring their ongoing interactions, as they climb all over me lol. I needed to see them "coexist" before putting them into the same brooder. Even just one week apart, (we hatched all of them) the 4 little ones have their pecking order and are established (stick together), and the 2 older babies are also stuck together like glue and giving each other back up lol. But then Momma makes sure there isn't overt bullying behavior and I must say, after 1 hour, they aren't trying to peck one another anymore!! 😊 Best of luck to you too!!!
So I have 2 bantams that are 6 weeks old. And I have been introducing them to my 1 week old chicks (I think thats how old they are, from tractor supply). I just built a new brooder box and put them together right now. The bantams aren't bullying the small ones and in fact seem skittish of the small ones. Too scared to let them stay in together all night. But so far so good.
Awesome, thanks for letting us know. Keep us updated.
Burbs: Calm, collected
Human Shows Up, Does literally anything or picks them up: *_absolutely frantic, screaming bloody murder_*
Puts them down: Like nothing ever happened
You'd swear you weren't the one providing them everything they have the past several months or something. And then they just . . . forget? After all that panicking? What even are birds?
Lol. I started reading your comment and was like oh boy. Usually people "frown" on what I do, making videos and what not. But yeah you're right these guys see me every single day and are still scared. I don't handle them 20 times a day like some people so they're not so used to me as they would be other owners.
I have a couple of 2 week old chicks and 4 5week old chicks. Do you think it would be safe to put the 2 groups together?
Yeah it should be. But I'd keep an eye on them.
I have 6 wk old chick's, and just got a new batch, any suggestions on a smooth integration, and when I should do it. The 6wk ones are going outside tomorrow.
That's a tough one. Maybe at 4 weeks old when they can defend themselves
My husband and I just got chicks from Tractor Supply, we got 5 and overnight 1 died and then another died quickly after. I went back to Tractor Supply who gave me 2 more chicks but same thing, one died pretty quickly and now the other one is sleeping and won't eat or drink. I made an egg yolk slurry with electrolytes/vitamins/probiotics and some diluted warm green tea and have been feeding her with a needleless syringe but right now she's alone in her brooder since the other chicks are a week older and they are super active. Would it be okay to put one of them with the new baby chick? She looks sad by herself.
Yeah those chicks just die. Best to find a local breeder and purchase chicks from them. A week difference is fine to add them in the same brooder.
And how do u hatch an egg that’s been in a fridge
You put it in the incubator and hatch it.
@@NicholsCounty thx
I have 3 chicks 7 weeks old and two are roosters how do I bring 2 baby chicks in with the remaining chcken? The one I am keeping is very small, a Blue Silky
I would let the babies grow out to at least a week before mixing them in with other chicks of that age.
I have 3 weeks chicks and 2 days old chicks could I mix them?
I wouldn't. I would wait until those chicks are at least 1 week. But if you do. Just monitor them for a bit to make sure nothing goes awry.
So I’m getting 4 week old chicks soon how big would they be
They'll be about the size of a 4 week old chick. Give or take.
Give it or take?
@@maciholmes717 They'll probably be about 4x the size of a day old chick. Some where around there.
Why would you grab them like that around 5:00
It's obvious. So I can pick up a lot at a time. I do it all the time. Doesn't hurt the chicks.