The start of My new army...*&*^ I mean family

[davefromthechipie]

I think this is it from my 1st incubator experience! 6 red black araucanas chicks ( ones in the incu still drying off ) 13 days left till batch 2 is rdy then batch 3 in 17 days Think im going to be busy...
Can anyone please tell me at what age can they go outside in a shed to live and when they can go outside ? Its not heated but will put a infared heat lamp in there . saying that I guess i could put a heater in .

[minskey]

They are georgeous!!
I've only ever hatche one set of eggs, popped them under Mum to be & 21 days to the hour 5 out of 5 hatched.
That was September last year and they were in the hen house with Mum, out the next day! She kept them warm & took them in & out as and when. Amazing creatures

[MaureenHall]

They look lovely Mine are just over 2 weeks old and I've been putting them outside in a huge dog-carrier intended for the back of a large estate car so they're protected from wandering cats and they don't fly off! They're only out for a couple of hours or so during the afternoons to give me chance to clean up their "other" growing place. They're as bad as spotty teenagers for making a mess!!!

I'm not really sure how old they need to be before putting them outside in a coop, but as you've got heating sorted out for them, then I should think about 2 - 3 weeks. I'm waiting till mine get a bit bigger and completely off-heat (they still have heating at night) then they'll go out into their own coop and run next to the big chooks

[davefromthechipie]

thanks maureen
Ok its just hit me what am i going to do when the others ?*egg hatching >< they are going to be 1.5 weeks behide.... then the next lot 2.4 weeks behide , Im going to have to buy 2 more heat lamps and split the coop up into 3 parts arnt I then have to deal with introducing them 3 groups to each other then to my mature chickens ...

[Alice]

I don't know anything about them Dave, but they're gorgeous.

[MaureenHall]

whooooooooops You'll manage it though