Thank you so much!! Yes we have a few others in the 6x9 "brooder" we've made. The light is about 15, maybe 18" from the ground? They rarely lay under it, but they do lay near the "red circle" it casts and have plenty of room to be either warmer or cooler. I've been an obsessive 'mother hen' of...
This... thing... showed up on the chick's neck about a week ago. The hatchery I bought her from said they've never seen anything like it, but guessed it may be a burn from a heat lamp (plausible - we have 2 week old chicks in the brooder with them who still use the lamp). It does not seem to be...