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Light as an attractant makes quite a bit of sense. I believe aart's right that your author's context for the three days of light is meant more for large numbers of chicks. When I was a kid, we would occasionally visit my uncle's commercial poultry farm. He had thousands of baby chicks in huge...

I'd almost forgotten until aart mentioned adding extra straw around the heating pad on really cold nights - I throw a folded wool blanket over the heating pad when it was to get down below freezing. That tends to focus more heat downward to where the chicks are. As for 24/7 light, one of the...

I was a nervous wreck the first time I brooded in my run. It was all so totally different from the indoor brooding I was used to, I didn't know what to expect. Unchartered territory is anxiety provoking. But there have been so many of us now that have done the MHP in the run and coop brooding...

Many of us brooding chicks outdoors, as you originally planned, do so under quite cool spring conditions. Blooie has had her babies in her run at temps well into the teens. For three years running, I've brooded baby chicks from day one when the temps were in the 30s at night and not over 60F...