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Hey thank you - I appreciate your responses so much!

This one says infrared, too. This is really helpful feedback - thank you! Glad to know these numbers aren’t crazy 😅

Thank you for this feedback!! I have two of the legs angled up 👍🏼

I have been haha. Should I be worried about the brooder plate temp? Or trust that they’ll leave if they need to? Thanks for your answers!

Just FYI - I took down the light when I put the brooder plate in 😅 just so there’s no confusion about the high heat. I’ve lifted one end of the brooder plate high, and the chicks keep heading toward the hottest spot of the plate…which means they’re ok with the heat, I guess??? I just don’t want...

Hey! So I reconfigured the set up, brooder significantly larger with the cool end at 80-83 and the hot end at 95. I wanted to get the cool end closer to 70, so I put a brooder plate in (I’ve never used one before). The brooder plate surface temp reads 138 with my heat gun 🤯🥵 I’ve checked it...

They all fell asleep in a pile last night - but they were in the middle of the brooder (against the wall), so I assumed they’d move to the hot end if they were cold? The temp at the cool end read 93, so I can’t imagine they were too cold?

I was definitely worried about this, so I made sure I checked the temp several times. It stayed between 94-95 on the hot end, and they slept almost in the middle of the brooder (by the wall). There are responses saying it might have been too hot! 😖😵‍💫 I hadn’t considered it being too hot, I...

I’ve read that chicks need 90-95 for the first week of life - how cool is too cool for the cool end? I’m reading mixed info online…70 for the cool end seems most common? That seems really cool for new hatchlings?

I didn’t. I got them at IFA? They said they had just gotten them in that day - and the BLW brooder was unheated (I was there when they noticed and called to get the lights on 🥴). I’m so sorry for your loss 💔

Of course - I wasn’t meaning to sound ungrateful, I’m definitely looking for help. The temp reads 93 in the cool end.

Yes - makes sense. We’ve had this same set up for the last few years (the light bulb is hung higher up on the wall, so it doesn’t get hotter in the brooder than 95). My question is - if it IS the heat, why did it only kill two of them? Is it possible to have some chicks be more sensitive than...

Would all the chicks be responding poorly then? Where is it possible to have it be too warm and only a couple of the chicks respond to poorly? I’ll go double check the temps are usually put them in a large storage tote. I just hadn’t gotten it from the basement yet.this box isn’t much smaller...

IFA

IFA had just gotten them in and I had them less than 24 hours 😞 I hope the other 2 pull through 💔 Just picked up a new bulb from TSC.

IFA. I’ve been looking everywhere on their website for info on the bulb - it doesn’t say “safety coated” on the box. I usually buy our bulbs from Tractor Supply - maybe this different brand is the issue..?? Ugh

It’s this bulb - I bought it at IFA when I got the chicks. We needed a new one bc our bulb broke last year.

We brought home two salmon favarolles, a red blue laced Wyandotte and a lavender Orpington for our spring brood this year. I’ve set them up the same way we have for all our spring chicks the last 4 years. Temp in the brooder is 90-95. When I checked on them last night, they were all snuggled...

I think we’ve identified most of our others, but this pullet is a mystery. She came to us with black markings by her eyes, a grey stripe on her back, but predominantly yellow fluff (no feathered feet). Her feathers are coming in white and grey?? Her feet and legs have gone from yellow to a...