Raising Chickens: From Building Coops to Collecting Eggs and More by Kim Pezza

Author:Kim Pezza [Pezza, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-57826-445-2
Publisher: Hatherleigh Press
Published: 2013-05-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chicks in brooder. Photo by fishpickdiver under the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0.

Chicks should normally stay in the brooder, with you gradually reducing the temperature for about six weeks, at which time they should have feathered out enough to be removed. However, should you think more time may be necessary, they may stay in longer.

Once the chicks leave the brooder, they will still be too small to throw right into the pen and coop with the general adult-bird population. You may want to consider setting up a temporary pen and small house right next to or inside your coop. This will give the chicks the opportunity to be with the flock in a safe way until they are big enough to hold their own. Once you are certain that you can put the chicks (or, by this time, pullets) in with the adults, it will be best to release the birds into the flock at night.

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