How warm does a chick need to be?

Answer 1

The temperature in the brooder should start around 90 degrees F. for newly hatched chicks and be decreased by about 5 degrees F. each week. Comfortable chicks make contented peeps. Chicks distressed from cold or hunger will cheep loudly and insistently. Comfortable chicks will pursue their normal activities of walking around, pecking at the food, pecking at the sides of the box, drinking water, and sleeping. They need a lot of rest and will frequently lie on the brooder floor with their heads down and wings spread out. Plan to keep the chicks inside for four to six weeks. When they are about a week or two old, they can be put outside for a while on warm days. They will come when you call them. Don't put them outside and leave them. You have to supervise at all times. Cats will not normally bother an adult chicken but they will go after a chick. Dogs are a definite danger along with raccoons, possums, foxes, weasels, owls, and hawks. When they are about four to six weeks old the chicks have most of their feathers and can go outside permanently if they have a predator- proof enclosure and a roosting place. Chickens start perching at about a month to six weeks old. Provide small, low perches.

Answer 2

Day one through the first week the temp. should be draft free and constant at 95F - 85F

Bring the temp. down by about 5 degrees per week until ambient to outside.

At about week 4 you can take the chicks out on warm sunny days to wander in the grass but you must watch them constantly. Everything outside except momma hen is dangerous to the chick.

Answer 3

From hatch to the end of week one...temperatures need to be between 85 and 90 F with a gradual drop of 5 degrees Fahrenheit each week thereafter until ambient to seasonal.

In the brooding area allow for movement away from direct heat source and the chicks will find their own comfort level.

Answer 4

The ideal temperature for hatching chickens in an incubator is between 99.5F and 100.5F. The temperature is not the only consideration as the humidity must be right also.

Eggs should be at a 55% humidity rate through to the 18th day and raised to better than 65% during the final days.

Answer 5

Proper temperature at bird level under the brooder or heat lamp for the first week is 90 to 95 degrees. Reduce the temperature 5 degrees each week for the first five weeks.

Answer 6

the chick requires the same amount of heat of which the mother chicken has, the chick needs its mothers body temperature. seeing that a chicken is warm blooded it probably is 37 degrees

Answer 7

37.5C

Answer 8

100 degres