Hi Dawn, This is always an awkward situation. You grab a couple and sooner or later one of them squawks and wakes the rest up resulting in chaos. To get the pullets to accept the new digs they should be locked in for a few days and that is a pain for the existing residence. You never know how a broody hen will react. She might abandon her eggs or she might ignore the whole thing. All you can do is try it and hope for the best. The light is probably a good thing but I would not use it if you have a broken fixture.
Ol' George
"I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem"
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, gothchickenlady <gothchickenlady@...> wrote:
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> I need to move pullets and 1 roo (about a dozen) to the "big house" - where the full grown live.
> Never done this before and I know to do it at night. Do I need to leave a low wattage light on or just move them into a dark house? Currently I haven't been leaving a light on in there since I need to replace the fixture. I generally leave a light on all year at night cause of critters.
> All chickens in question "know" each other since all are free ranging during the day. One pullet already took it on her own to sleep there at night. My main concern in my pair of Guineas who like to pick on the youngsters. That is usually when food is involved. They eat outside when the weather permits.
> My other concern is I have a hen sitting on eggs in there right now in one of the laying boxes. Chicks are due to hatch around June 10 and I'm not really wanting to move her until about a week before. I'm going to let her hatch them and then brooder them since I already have chicks going on 1 week now. Egg production is down now since she had to have "the box".
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> Dawn in DE aka Gothy
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