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Yes I waited a bit and put them out there with a lamp and plate they did great I just have one runt and lost one turkey that went native and decided he wanted to be wild. Neither of those can be attributed to going outside that early lol.

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Just to add the first cold night I went out with an infrared thermometer and checked the temp every couple of hours just to make sure. The center of the hot spot never got below 80

I moved them out the following week I have a plate and lamp out there. I built them a 4’x8’ enclosure separate from the big chickens with cage cloth walls so they can see each other. It is 4’ tall as well. It has gotten down to the mid twenties a couple times sense then with no ill effects. I...

Yeah I think im gonna hold off a week and then go with @Brooks_ advice on a heatlamp to provide ambient heat. Thank you guys this forum is awesome

I can and may do that I hadn’t thought of the turkeys being more fragile than chickens. yeah this is the first year I’ve used a plate and much prefer it. The safety aspect makes me very happy.

Yes I also have a heat lamp available out there as well.

2 weeks old a mixture of barred rocks marans and two heritage turkey poults. There are ten in total three of the barred rocks are older than the rest as far as I can tell the rest of them are well represented by the chick roosting on the brooder plate. I brood them in my guest bathroom tub but...