When To Move Chicks To The Chicken House

Chances are someone reading this article bought some chicks. They were brought home, put in something like a rabbit cage, also called a brooder, and that is where they have been for the past few weeks.

Some people have the cage in the main chicken house, and all they do is open the door. Chicks, being the curious creatures they are, will leave the cage and join the main flock.

Then there are people such as myself who have a separate brooder house for chicks. The house has a heat lamp, measures six feet wide and eight feet long, plywood walls, and a screened in floor. The new chicks are kept in the brooder house until they are ready to join the main flock.

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When To Move Chicks To The Chicken House