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If you are thinking of brooding outdoors, I caution you not to try to use the heat plate. We've discovered over the years that they are not suitable for keeping chicks warm when temperature is in the freezing zone. The heating pad system is much safer and warmer. This is the original thread on...

Baby chicks can successfully acquire resistance to LL and many other pathogens if exposed to them in small amounts over their first two weeks when their immune system window is open to making antibodies. Brooding the new chicks indoors would miss this window. I'm also in a region where April...