Brood heating question for you guru's, lightless infrared heat

[shelleyd2008]

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Yes, but this is for quail chicks

They need lots of light so they eat almost constantly and grow to be big fat little birdies fairly quickly

 

[Stefan Attaway]

Fantastic! Thank toy everyone for your input!

Yes, it's one of those heater bulbs that look like q par38 flood, no light, radiant heat, and the ceramic material makes nice instant burn scars...lol

Chics are well today.

Yes, I was thinking that their metabolism being much higher with 24/7 lightening, however I witnessed two of the older hatchlings starting to pull on the others' feathers. Since then no more pulling.

I would imagine in a production setup 24/7 lighting must be absolute necessity as time is money.

If I continue with the lightless heat do you think it will be as drastic as 1/2 the normal brooding light chic growth?

 

[FeatheredObsessions]

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I know

My poor lava lamps too

There is going to be a huge buy out coming

 

[Stefan Attaway]

Just FYI for where I purchased it....online, I believe the shipping was free, and I bought and 150w model, this one is a 100w. They are said to last 5 years and this is less than 1/2 of the retail price of the ones in the bigbox retailers.

http://www.amazon.com/ReptiCare-Cer...1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1297954829&sr=8-1

 

[Stefan Attaway]

Again, thanks to everyone for your help!

I am going to see what I can find anything on their light vs. metabolism as I noticed a drastic change in their dropping in less than 8 hours. When I had the brooder light on 24/7 they where on a 5 minute cycle I noticed their droppings where mostly unprocessed food. Now that they are a long night cycle the droppings have zero unprocessed food.

I wonder where the tipping point is as to food waste vs growth rate...that would be interesting.

Thanks again for all help and guidance.