Thank you everyone for your responses!!! I checked the box again and it's a 250 watt bulb (not 2500), haha. It's specifically made for animals (it has pictures of baby chicks on it) made by Little Giant. We had the thermometer under the lamp but the guy at the feed store said that you...
We are first time chicken owners. We bought 5 baby chicks, they are about a week old from a local seller on Saturday. We set them up in our homemade brooder (see pic #1, but we also had the heat lamp, food and water in it as well). We were worried that the chicks didn't have enough room to...