chicken lodge
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Hi Everyone,
We managed to hatch 5 eggs in the end and all are growing very fast and seem to be doing really well.
We have them in a safe place (in a barn) and they are still under the heat lamp that has now gone a little higher, due to the size of the babies, and they are aprox 6 weeks old.
The question i have for you all, is how do i tell the boys from the girls, some are much bigger than the others so that helps i assume, but they hatched over a 10 day period so that might account for that ?.
Also we are feeding them chick crumb, when can i start to change to corn.
Sorry one more question, when is the best time to turn off the heat lamp, as i have seen the weather and its going to get cold and i am a little concerned that if i do it to soon i might lose them.Many many thanks, for all the advice i might get.

We managed to hatch 5 eggs in the end and all are growing very fast and seem to be doing really well.
We have them in a safe place (in a barn) and they are still under the heat lamp that has now gone a little higher, due to the size of the babies, and they are aprox 6 weeks old.
The question i have for you all, is how do i tell the boys from the girls, some are much bigger than the others so that helps i assume, but they hatched over a 10 day period so that might account for that ?.
Also we are feeding them chick crumb, when can i start to change to corn.
Sorry one more question, when is the best time to turn off the heat lamp, as i have seen the weather and its going to get cold and i am a little concerned that if i do it to soon i might lose them.Many many thanks, for all the advice i might get.


