Brooder help

Chicken teen618

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So I set up my brooder and I’m still not sure how high I should set up my heat lamp, does anyone have any advice?
 
I hung mine on a chain and used a combination of raising and lowering it on said chain AND swapping out different wattages of bulbs to keep the temperatures where I wanted them to be.

For safety's sake I kept the bulb at least 15" from anything potentially flammable:

The lamp is further from the wall than it looks in this photo:
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This brooder is 4x8:
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A thermometer on a brick gives me a reasonable idea of what the chick-level temperature is:
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