2022 Chicks - Cackle Experience

[Iluveggers]

Personally, I think they might be a bit too hot. There should be a cooler area for them to move to. Can you put the lamp on one side of the brooder only so there is a warm side & a cooler side? If you post a pic of the brooder, I’m sure others would have good suggestions also!

 

[Iluveggers]

Actually I just googled the brooder. Are they staying only in that, or is there a larger space and the Janoel brooder is inside of that?

 

[Tremogg]

Personally, I think they might be a bit too hot. There should be a cooler area for them to move to. Can you put the lamp on one side of the brooder only so there is a warm side & a cooler side? If you post a pic of the brooder, I’m sure others would have good suggestions also!

It is on one side(hot and cool) but hubby and I were just talking and it may be that it is too low and we need to raise the whole brooder house to help them cool off as they are getting bigger.

 

[Tremogg]

Actually I just googled the brooder. Are they staying only in that, or is there a larger space and the Janoel brooder is inside of that?

It is inside a larger area.

 

[Iluveggers]

It is on one side(hot and cool) but hubby and I were just talking and it may be that it is too low and we need to raise the whole brooder house to help them cool off as they are getting bigger.

I think that might be it. Try it for a little while, and observe.

 

[Tremogg]

Would it be to early to transition to a brooder plate?

 

[Tremogg]

I think that might be it. Try it for a little while, and observe.

Ok I will need to get bricks or something to raise it but for now I had plant saucers (small ones) of hard plastic that we set it on and it raised it by about 2 -3 inches at most plus it also allows ventilation through at the bottom

 

[Iluveggers]

Would it be to early to transition to a brooder plate?

I used a brooder plate from day one with my baby chicks!

 

[Cattle dog Mom]

Ok mini update that is way later than I thought it would be. Been crazy the last few weeks getting the grow out pen setup and building some garden beds.


Below snapshot of when the brood was roughly three weeks old. There are a few two week old chicks in the photo. Most noticably in the photo is one Blue that is not feathering as fast as the others, it's actually about on par with the week behind group. This was the Blue with the splayed legs who we originally named Waddles.
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First day outside in the growout pen for the elder group last week. It's quite an ordeal to greet them all into a tub to be transported, worth it for their antics and joy at the outside space. R.Red Blue in the foreground is named Emperor. I've got a feeling he's gonna be a roo.
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Growout pen is in with the ladies who were curious at first but after a week now don't really seem to care much about the littles.
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In an unexpected twist, I think we may have another roo in our Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. I forgot to check leg bands though I grabbed a photo as I was putting them back inside for the night. These were to be sexed pullets so it will be a shame but not unexpected with a 90% accuracy. If he's a roo he's gonna have to either go in the pot or to a new home, no room for a non-program roo.
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Overall I'm still happy with the health of the 31 total chicks outside the one slow Blue Ameraucana.

....."non program roo"..... Because I'm nosy, that IS the program?

 

[Aricawithtwins]

Would it be to early to transition to a brooder plate?

I have mine with brooder plate from day one also, they have been happy.