85 watt red floodlight

[gjoyner]

hey. I have a small enough coop for three chickens...they keep themselve pretty warm with body heat..but I just bought a red 85 watt flood light for when it gets really super cold.
I could not find a regular red light under 250 watts..adn above 25 watts.
Waht is the difference between a regular light and a flood light?
will a flood light give off more heat than a regular light?

 

[Georgiapea]

I don't know. What I did was go to a pet store and buy a herp light and the one I selected was 150w. It works really well in my makeshift bathtub brooder.

 

[dickies chics]

a flood light is designed to throw the light further than a regular light bulb. it will work just fine.

 

[patandchickens]

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The back half of it is mirrored/shaped as a reflector, so the light goes more just in front of the bulb instead of in all directions.

will a flood light give off more heat than a regular light?

Nope. Any lightbulb will give off heat in proportion to its wattage (that's actual watts-consumed wattage, not cfl or led "as bright as X watts" numbers). From the perspective of heating the space as a whole, it really does not matter significantly whether it is a heat lamp, red regular bulb, other color regular bulb, plain ol white bulb, whatever - if you care about heating, just go by the wattage.

There are LOTS of intermediate-wattage red lightbulbs manufactured, though -- try different stores, and you do have to *thoroughly* search the lightbulb display for them. I have built up a full collection of all different wattages of red bulbs (I think it is like 40, 60, 100, 125, 175, 250) to minimize how much electricity I'm using in the brooder

Good luck, have fun,

Pat​

 

[crazyhen]

Yeh!,

I got an answer to a question I did not have to ask. I saw a bunch of red flood lights today at Lowes in their Christmas display and wondered if they would work for heat. Although I have a larger coop the 250 just gave off to much for my liking. Thanks all gloria Jean