News story: Fire destroys 500 animals

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http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/13670778/early-morning-fire-kills-500-baby-animals

This is so sad! I think these really cold temps down here are making a lot of people maybe use more heat for their animals than they would normally use. Such a shame. And most of them were baby chicks!
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Yes--I was taken to task a week or so ago when I said "Good bye" to those who were going to use heaters in their coops that I predicted would be burned out before spring. This is a serious problem, one newbies to the care of chickens don't realize will happen until it is too late. Electricity plus heat 24/7 plus dust plus wood shavings/straw and feathers is a very combustible combination. It is too bad that it has to happen when, for the most part, it is not necessary.
 
It is sad and I feel sorry for those who go through this,, I lost a barn a year ago and several hundred birds...They wasnt sure if it was my brooders or one of the incubators because the fire was so hot..It was in my old milk house block walls over 2200 degrees they said like an oven inside...Was an awful feeling going to the barns for several months after the fire but have learned a hard leason on heat lamps because im pretty sure that was the cause of the fire...I had several good people help clean up and send some free stuff to help me rebuild what I had before...If you are going to use them be very careful...

Hope Everyone has a Happy Holiday...

From S&N Livestock and ThePoultryBarn
 
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True, accidents happen but you have got to use common sense and it won't happen near as much....then it would be truly an accident.

It is so sad....not the animals fault.
 
Stories like that are precisely why I won't even consider it.

Not that we get too many nights where we'd want to, but I wouldn't even try it on those nights.

Especially since we're still getting Extreme Fire Risk Warnings down here... you'd think it was August or something.

There's a small risk with leaving your birds be in a GOOD shelter, very small, but there's a lot larger risk in heating. All it takes is one person having a bad day, not feeling well, being distracted... at the factory and a faulty cord gets through.

Chalk one more up to Piney's Paranoia (yes it deserves it's own capital) but there it is.
 
It said he thought a chicken may have knocked over a heat lamp. Sounds like another person that just clipped a lamp somewhere, instead of chaining it securely. That's why so many people on the forum harp about securing your heat lamps and explain over and over again how to do it. Poorly secured heat lamps are the main cause of heat lamp related fires. I get the whole thing about telling people that their chickens don't need heat in winter. I would still like people to stop burning down their houses and barns with heat lamps, while they are brooding. That happens, too.

Like driving a gasoline filled car, driving any car at high speeds or owning a furnace, use your heat lamps safely, when you do use them.
 

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