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Setting up a Chick Brooder 🐥

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Good info overall but could be more informative about some things. We have used PawHuts as brooders. They are spacious, easy to maintain, and fold up after the chicks are old enough to move out. There is also plenty of room for a heat lamp at one end and the chicks will place themselves where they are comfortable. We have 21 hatchlings in two PawHuts together. They love flying from one side to the other. We have seen problems with some warming plates so if you use one choose carefully. We don't use real heat lamps because they are too hot. The first week we use a 150 watt floodlight. Second week a 100 watt incandescent bulb. After that a ceramic heater works well and the chicks will sleep at night in the dark. Reduce the temperature by 5 degrees weekly until the chicks are fully fledged and no longer need a heater. Be sure to provide lots of food and water. They are voracious eaters and drinkers. I change their water several times a day and make sure they don't run out of food.
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