alternative to heat lamp?

[kelzey]

as the title says, i’m looking for an alternative to a heat lamp. i’m getting some baby chicks (less than a week old) again within the next couple days (only two or three to add to my current flock of three eventually) and i’m not quite sure where to get a heat lamp around here and i don’t have time to order one. when i first got my ladies, they were already old enough that a lamp was not necessary so i did not have to worry about that. i’ve read somewhere that a hot water bottle works, but i’m not sure. i will be getting either silkies or a silkie/frizzle mix. any advice please?

 

[featheredplanets]

The heat pad cave by @Blooie is the way to go if you can’t find a heat lamp or electric hen/brooder plate.

 

[CHlCKEN]

as the title says, i’m looking for an alternative to a heat lamp. i’m getting some baby chicks (less than a week old) again within the next couple days (only two or three to add to my current flock of three eventually) and i’m not quite sure where to get a heat lamp around here and i don’t have time to order one. when i first got my ladies, they were already old enough that a lamp was not necessary so i did not have to worry about that. i’ve read somewhere that a hot water bottle works, but i’m not sure. i will be getting either silkies or a silkie/frizzle mix. any advice please?

Hi! I don’t really like to use heat lamps, as they have a fire risk included. You can find the brooder plates at your local farm store. They work well, and the chicks have a better escape of heat if they get to hot! Also doesn’t heat the food and water and simulates being under a mother hen.

 

[kelzey]

Hi! I don’t really like to use heat lamps, as they have a fire risk included. You can find the brooder plates at your local farm store. They work well, and the chicks have a better escape of heat if they get to hot! Also doesn’t heat the food and water and simulates being under a mother hen.

i do not have a local farm store ): i live in a very small town, we have nothing like that.

 

[kelzey]

The heat pad cave by @Blooie is the way to go if you can’t find a heat lamp or electric hen/brooder plate.

thank you sm! i’ll definitely check that out

 

[CHlCKEN]

i do not have a local farm store ): i live in a very small town, we have nothing like that.

You can grab it on amazon easily should take only a few days to come. Definitely worth the wait, you can use one of the alternatives until it’s arrived

 

[tsperry88]

I have and like these 2:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07NJZM1F5/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile

https://www.amazon.com/Brinsea-EcoG...plate&qid=1599835721&sprefix=+brinsea&sr=8-11

 

[AntiqueB]

My brooder plate was delayed in arriving. I used the heat pad that came with the chicks, and a reptile heating pad on the outside wall of a shoebox (like a little bedroom) for perhaps 3 days, and my 3 chicks were fine. It helped that the room itself was never below around 80°.

 

[kelzey]

I have and like these 2:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07NJZM1F5/ref=dp_ob_neva_mobile

https://www.amazon.com/Brinsea-EcoG...plate&qid=1599835721&sprefix=+brinsea&sr=8-11

those seem great! i can’t buy them though. well i could, but i’m in canada and i couldn’t find anything like that. to but these on american amazon i’d have to pay at least 30 dollars in shipping /:

 

[tsperry88]

those seem great! i can’t buy them though. well i could, but i’m in canada and i couldn’t find anything like that. to but these on american amazon i’d have to pay at least 30 dollars in shipping /:

That's too bad. They make things super easy. I don't know how amazon.ca works, but they have what appears to be discontinued size in between my 2.


https://www.amazon.ca/Brinsea-Produ...glow&qid=1599837973&sprefix=brinsea+ec&sr=8-3