well about 8:30 am today picked up our RIR's females. got some starter feed from the store , then had to go to another feed store for a water and feeder. so around 9:30 i got home/ I put them in about a 2' x2' plastic container that, is trash from work, with an open top.
I live in South east texas and it was about 90 degrees today. The lady i talked to about the chickens didn't think i needed a heat lamp with our heat.
The chicks (2 days old) seem to be doing well checked on them tonight, they were huddled together so i checked the outside temp. it was around 77 degrees so I added a 13 watt compact fluorescent light to shine in the container and covered partially with cardboard.
Just wanted to share what i was doing to see if anyone had any pointers especially with this hot texas weather. I live about 1.5 hours east of Houston and 30 mins. from Louisiana
thanks
I live in South east texas and it was about 90 degrees today. The lady i talked to about the chickens didn't think i needed a heat lamp with our heat.
The chicks (2 days old) seem to be doing well checked on them tonight, they were huddled together so i checked the outside temp. it was around 77 degrees so I added a 13 watt compact fluorescent light to shine in the container and covered partially with cardboard.
Just wanted to share what i was doing to see if anyone had any pointers especially with this hot texas weather. I live about 1.5 hours east of Houston and 30 mins. from Louisiana
thanks