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One can always add another lamp, as you did. You are also correct in that temps are moderating here in the northern Mitten over the next week. Steady, temperate, really, for the season. In another two weeks, all they'll need is that 100 watt, and only at night. By the end of 7 weeks, they'll not even need that, I assure you.
I brooded fall chicks in northern Michigan many times. Never indoors. Always in an out building. Never lost a one. You're doing just fine. The chicks will also be just fine. There is one heck of a lot more bitter cold weather coming, so yours are being prepared by feathering out. It is the kindest thing you can do.
I can send you a private YouTube link to a video of my dozen chicks brooded out last fall up here. They are all alive, laying up a storm, in an unheated, uninsulated, but dry, well ventilated barn.
One can always add another lamp, as you did. You are also correct in that temps are moderating here in the northern Mitten over the next week. Steady, temperate, really, for the season. In another two weeks, all they'll need is that 100 watt, and only at night. By the end of 7 weeks, they'll not even need that, I assure you.
I brooded fall chicks in northern Michigan many times. Never indoors. Always in an out building. Never lost a one. You're doing just fine. The chicks will also be just fine. There is one heck of a lot more bitter cold weather coming, so yours are being prepared by feathering out. It is the kindest thing you can do.
I can send you a private YouTube link to a video of my dozen chicks brooded out last fall up here. They are all alive, laying up a storm, in an unheated, uninsulated, but dry, well ventilated barn.
