Mine so far is working great.. they are roosting on it now, but all chicks doing fine at three weeks old and somehow they still all get under it.
Brinsea Ecoglow chick brooder - one BIG flaw!
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A-ha! I have the answer for you. If you put a really thick layer of wood shavings down, then wiggle the legs of the EcoGlow down through them, you can get the hotplate to sit as low down as you want. I think you should be able to get it to work for all sizes of chicks.
A-ha! I have the answer for you. If you put a really thick layer of wood shavings down, then wiggle the legs of the EcoGlow down through them, you can get the hotplate to sit as low down as you want. I think you should be able to get it to work for all sizes of chicks.
How the heck do you get the ecoglow apart again to raise or lower the plate? I'm levering in a screwdriver on the tabs but the durn thing won't open. I'd hate to break it, but chickies are too big now for the medium setting.
Is there a better way?
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I wondered about that. I'm just going to put short pieces of 2x4 under each end. I'd hate to break it!!
The pictures in the instruction book show you how to lever it apart. I can't remember how right now (it's after 1am) but I did it exactly like the pictures showed and it worked. If you do it wrong I think it would be easy to break but doing it right puts less leverage on the breakable bits. Ask me again if you can't find your instructions and I'll go dig mine out. I kept both boxes and all the packaging stuff for mine in case I had problems with them - general opinion of these things on the UK forums is NOT good!
I wondered about that. I'm just going to put short pieces of 2x4 under each end. I'd hate to break it!!
The pictures in the instruction book show you how to lever it apart. I can't remember how right now (it's after 1am) but I did it exactly like the pictures showed and it worked. If you do it wrong I think it would be easy to break but doing it right puts less leverage on the breakable bits. Ask me again if you can't find your instructions and I'll go dig mine out. I kept both boxes and all the packaging stuff for mine in case I had problems with them - general opinion of these things on the UK forums is NOT good!
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I wondered about that. I'm just going to put short pieces of 2x4 under each end. I'd hate to break it!!
The pictures in the instruction book show you how to lever it apart. I can't remember how right now (it's after 1am) but I did it exactly like the pictures showed and it worked. If you do it wrong I think it would be easy to break but doing it right puts less leverage on the breakable bits. Ask me again if you can't find your instructions and I'll go dig mine out. I kept both boxes and all the packaging stuff for mine in case I had problems with them - general opinion of these things on the UK forums is NOT good!
I think the ones that were getting the bad reports were the OLD ones with the silver metal underneath. Brinsea redesigned them due to user complaints and the new ones, which are black on the underside, now put out 10x the radiant heat that the old ones did.
I wondered about that. I'm just going to put short pieces of 2x4 under each end. I'd hate to break it!!
The pictures in the instruction book show you how to lever it apart. I can't remember how right now (it's after 1am) but I did it exactly like the pictures showed and it worked. If you do it wrong I think it would be easy to break but doing it right puts less leverage on the breakable bits. Ask me again if you can't find your instructions and I'll go dig mine out. I kept both boxes and all the packaging stuff for mine in case I had problems with them - general opinion of these things on the UK forums is NOT good!
I think the ones that were getting the bad reports were the OLD ones with the silver metal underneath. Brinsea redesigned them due to user complaints and the new ones, which are black on the underside, now put out 10x the radiant heat that the old ones did.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're 100% right on that. But I'd read complaints about them even from people who had bought the new and improved ones. I was just keeping all the bits n bobs just to be on the safe side. And also cause I'm a crazy hoarder!
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