heat for chicks

Help! We got a hot plate brooder warmer, but my husband held the set button instead if just pressing it. It comes up with a bunch if "F1" then pressing set again you can set a number. Then "F2" then set again and you can change another number and so on. Well, he changed the numbers and now it...

Unfortunately, the day after Christmas a dog (German Shepherd/Belgian Malinois) jumped over our pasture fence and "got" 23 of our chickens. (BTW: We raised the fence!). Now we are trying to get chickens ASAP, so they can hopefully start laying early spring/summer. We have a commercial size...

Theyre hatching! We’re 3 years into chickens and finally got a broody momma who hatched out! So far 4/9 have hatched. It is 60-75 here during the day and 40-55 during the night. I have the momma (still sitting but doing well with her babies) and her chicks in a separated brooder coop. It’s...

My family has a large garden and we start everything from seed. We are gettting into chickens this year, and I am trying to dual use as much of the existing equipment as I have. We bought 15 layers that will arrive in March, average temperature in my area then should be around 65F during the...

I have silkies 4 and 3 weeks old. The temperatures are around 8° to 15°+ degrees Celsius right now. And around 6°C on colder nights. I have a broody with a 1 week old and they seem to be doing well, but the chick has a mom. I also brought two 4 week old silkie chicks outside today to get some...

As you can see above I'm wondering how long day-old chicks can go without heat. I'm worried they will get too cold when I'm driving home from the feed store. Plus I will want to pick them up and play with them in the future. Is there any certain time frame they can go without sustainable heat?

I'm getting new chicks this spring. I'm wondering what heating options there are out there. I've used a heating pad put on the wall of the bin with my rooster when I hatched him as he was the sole survivor of the eggs so I didn't need much heat. Now I'm getting 6 chicks so a heating pad on the...

Hello all! My chicks are a little over 3 weeks old and are almost fully feathered and MY GOD have they grown so fast in such a short amount of time. They have a lovely chicken coop and run just waiting for their arrival outside, which at the moment became my dogs new playground. They are getting...

I have 2 EE chicks that are about 3 weeks off from being put in with the flock. We have been keeping a heat lamp on them at night because our nights are getting down in the Mid 20's to mid 30's. I am wondering if we still need to keep the heat on them or would it be best to turn it off so they...

The girls sit on the fertile eggs seldomly. We have a small property of half acre and let our girls and Roo "free-range", if you will. They are, for the most part friendly birds. Some a little more of a "lap hen" than others but all of them know we aren't going to hurt them. (4 hens/1 Roo/1...

Hello! I have been using a 250 watt heat lamp for my week old chicks. I want to switch to a Titan Incubators 12" X 12" Brooder Hen/Electric Mama Hen Low 20w Chick Heat Plate. Will they be stressed in the dark without a light? I know in nature they wouldn't have that light, but want to double...