Recent content by rachabe

Thanks so much everyone all that info helped a great deal!!!

Ok so should I keep the space heater in the room set at like 65 degrees then have the heat lamp on? Bc my walk in closet gets pretty cold or should the heat lamp be enough?

Also do you think my black chicks could be getting hotter than the brown ones from the bulb? Idk if it's like the sun where it's attracted to black. Both of them seemed hotter but maybe they were really sleepy. I read that the look dead when they're sleeping so that could be it too. I'm going to...

Ya they peep alllllll day long and peck at the walls and floor and they're eating and drinking all day too then they sleep throughout the night. I have a red 120 v light and try to hang it above one corner really high too and the thermometer said it got to 95 degrees so I turned it off really...

[/IMG]I have 6 1 week old chicks in a oval plastic bin I got at Home Depot (I just put them in it today I had them in a box before) I have a space heater going in my walk in closet set at 80 degrees and they have been fine this week that I've had them. Everywhere I've read says at 1 week should...