EcoGlow Chick Brooder

[madamwlf]

I love the two Ecoglows I have. I have the larger ones and they work great. Less electricity used and the chicks love it. I do have a light on during the day so the chicks do have a light cycle. I find with the Ecoglow I can turn the light off at night and the chicks don't freak out. Unlike a heat lamp, there is always a light on. That first night without a light freaks them out. With the Ecoglow I turn the light off on their first night and no problems at all. Well worth buying a few if you plan to have chicks at least once a year.

 

[HSerChickLady]

Thanks! I'm not sure we'll be doing this yearly, but at some point we want to try meat chickens and let the kids hatch some eggs for a school project and i'm sure they will be handy again then though it might be a year or two.

 

[gryeyes]

Don't spend any more time wondering about 'em, just buy yourself an EcoGlow! I have both sizes. They're awesome. Right now, I have 3 silkie chicks in the house with the smaller unit, and 22 chicks out in the Chicken Kindergarten pen inside the coop with the larger unit. I had to wait until the chicks were about 3 weeks old to put them out in the coop, because the units work best at 50 degrees ambient temperarture; the coop gets colder than that at night. The larger number of chicks can huddle together under the larger unit so the colder temperatures don't bother them. The larger unit is set in quite deep a layer of pine shavings so there's plenty of insulation.

As time passes, the chicks love to get on the top of the brooder for their chick games. Just put a wire cover on your brooder bin if you don't want them practicing to get out of it.

The fact they go under it for a while to warm up and then run back and forth is SO like having a broody momma, plus they get the dark at night to help with the diurnal cycle.

 

[HSerChickLady]

Great, i think i might order them this next paycheck, then i know they'll be here well ahead of the chicks in April.

 

[AlienChick]

I bought one last year and I love it.
In the past I would worry about the heat lamp blowing out on the day-olds.
I do not normally spend money on things I really don't need, but the peace of mind is worth it for me.
The EcoGlow is very natural and the chicks go to sleep at night like they would in nature.
Try it for yourself.

 

[gryeyes]

AlienChick, those are GREAT photos for showing off the EcoGlow!!

You don't know how many times I've gotten flat on the floor to try to peer under mine... sometimes I just can't take it any more and I lift it up quickly to see the babies and then put it back down again. Poor little goobers must wonder what the HECK is going on when I do that.

 

[AlienChick]

AlienChick, those are GREAT photos for showing off the EcoGlow!!
You don't know how many times I've gotten flat on the floor to try to peer under mine... sometimes I just can't take it any more and I lift it up quickly to see the babies and then put it back down again. Poor little goobers must wonder what the HECK is going on when I do that.

Reminds me of the old Henny Penny story when the hen ran around screaming "The Sky is Falling!"

 

[HSerChickLady]

Thanks so much for the pics! So cute they are under there. Definately going to get them for this years chicks. How many did you have using it? I was going to get the size for 20 chicks as we'll be getting 6-10 ducklings for one of them and 15-20 chicks for the other one.

 

[silkie4]

We bought one of these. It is absolutely wonderful and the chicks seem to love it. This is the first batch of chicks we've ever had and just hated the thought of a heat lamp in my house and the fire danger. This works great!

 

[off-grid hen]

Count me as another supporter of the ecoglow!

We got 3 chicks.

Then a week later we added 13 more.

When they were really little, I had a clear bin so I could lie down and peek under the ecoglow. *shame*