We are doing the chicks brooder out in the coop this year with a heating pad cave. Brooder is an old Guinea pig cage with pine shavings.
Here’s the contraption I made.
Heating pad tied to the underside of a bent piece of lobster trap to make the cave, and an old towel on top to finish it off...
Emrys (and most of my other girls) came from tractor supply as a cinnamon queen (Rhode island red x Wyandotte) but she is the only one of them who doesn’t have a straight comb