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D'Angelo N Va. : I have ONLY used the white lights..EVER. They don't pick at one another, they sleep, eat, do all the things theywould normally do in the sunshine. i always wondered why ppl. say ONLY use a red light. Fiddle Dee Dee. I agree with you that if you don't have a pecking issue...

D'Angelo N Va. : I have ONLY used the white lights..EVER. They don't pick at one another, they sleep, eat, do all the things theywould normally do in the sunshine. i always wondered why ppl. say ONLY use a red light. Fiddle Dee Dee. No lowes or home depot within about a 100 miles of here...

Quote: It's not that they will automatically peck each other with a white light, but if they are prone to pecking than using a red light can sometimes solve the problem.

Yes, Walmart does have red flood lights but they are too hot/too high wattage (150W) for this time of year. I was looking for something in the 90 watt range, but the red "party" lights are only 25 watt; that's why we got the black light instead. The heat lamp is already 2 ft. off the brooder...

My chicks are a week old today. They are in the brooder on our screened porch. They only had a heat lamp on in the daytime for two days then it got too hot for one, so we starting switching it on at about 8:30 PM (around sunset) and turned it off in the morning. Our red bulb went out on day...