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Well that's certainly good to hear. Maybe she's waiting until she's no longer chickless?

I seem to remember reading a post from Blooie that she had to give up her chickens. I would hope she would stay to continue sharing her knowledge and friendship though.

A backup generator [preferably] with an auto ignition, perhaps? I would think anyone living in an area with such extreme winter conditions would have one.

Aren't there larger pads with the "stay on" feature? Even if Sunbeam doesn't make one Sunbeam isn't the only show in town.

The way I integrated my August batch with the older birds may also be doable in your case. As mentioned before, introduce them as soon as they can take the outdoor temps, but keep them physically separated from the older birds. I used a large dog cage (cover the top so they don't get pooped on)...

Sounds like my set-up, except that I had the LED light plugged into an appliance timer so it turned on and off automatically. And I would +1 on moving the MHP away from the wall. With that many chicks it is too easy for an overheated chick to become trapped behind a bunch of others who don't...

Actually, if they are inside an enclosed building, ie. your garage they really don't need protection from drafts, the building will do that. Remember, chicks raised naturally outside in the wild wouldn't even have this, just mama. I raised my chicks, both the Easter flock and the August one, in...

You will be needing your heating pad for your sore butt before your chicks arrive from sitting long enough to read over 7,800 posts! 7,800? Hey Blooie, I think...well you know.

I would assume the pad warms the tub, and the chicks nestle up against the inside walls of it. By "between the tubs" do you mean that one tub is inside the other, the pad being between the inner and outer tub?

I would think that the proper temperature setting of the MHP pad, seeing as it is supposed to be a surrogate for an actual mother hen, would be the normal body temperature of a broody hen.

Turned off my Mama and removed the pad from the Hardware Cloth 'frame' The babies (5 weeks now) have about 80-90% if their baby feathers, and it's warm enough even at night that they aren't using it anymore, so i put the HC frame back in so they can roost on it. Ohh, that's mighty big, I don;t...

About 200 feet. And I use the garage for brooding, not the house. I am thinking of electrically attaching my new coop to the shed power, which is much closer, at least for temporary uses like keeping water liquid when it gets below freeing and brooding if I don't have a cooperative hen.

SunHawk is correct, the sooner they can be introduced to the other birds the better. Unfortunately I cannot do that as there is no electricity near enough to my pen to power the MHP.

So long as they have a predator safe sheltered area you can let them outside as soon as they are feathered out and can control their own body temperature. Actually this is the best way as they can build up their feathers/down as needed while the temps drop rather than having to do so all of a...

Those are old pictures, I posted them the day before the chicks arrived. And their are only five of them. Unfortunately that's the biggest tote I could find. They are only staying there until they feather out enough to go outside and i can get the new coop built anyway, and I'm starting as soon...