Not sure but this may help someone. We received our chicks last Friday( Californian whites) we only had a 250w white buld on hand so thats what we used. Tuesday we got a 250w red buld. From what we have observed going from white to red is the chicks seem more calm. With the white they were...
We got our first chicks last Friday and we are using newspapers as bedding. But the brooder is a 55gal aquarium we used for raisingangle fish. The newspaper bedding is working great so far.