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Quote: OK, thank for all your help! I guess I will just have to keep moving it and see what they like! Thanks!

Quote: OK, thanks. I will have to keep raising it then or until they sleep under it. I just thought it was weird, because with the paper towels down, they slept under the light, but ince I put the shavings in, they slept not totally under the light. So I figured I would ask the experts...

Quote: i would put the thermometer at the level of the chicks so you are reading the temperature that they are experiencing I should have explained myself better. When I said I put the thermometer directly under the light, I meant it was laying on the floor of the brooder under the light...

Quote: That temperature was with the thermometer directly under the light, is that the way I should be measuring the temp. or should I hang the thermometer in the brooder at their level, that way it gets the air temp. and not the temp. directly under the light. (hopefully I didn't confuse anyone)

I don't think they are panting. When I lay the thermometer directly under the light (so the light is right on it), I get around 110* and that is with the light hanging about 2 1/2 feet above the brooders floor. When they are up and active, they will walk under the light and sometimes take a...

I got my chicks on Monday and had paper towels down until yesterday. Yesterday I put pine shavings down and ever since then, the chicks seem to either sleep along the edge of the brooder (they seemed to kick the shavings back and lay on the newspapers underneath) or in an area where the light...