Chicken teen618
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- Feb 17, 2019
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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?
Brooder help
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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:
This brooder is 4x8:
A thermometer on a brick gives me a reasonable idea of what the chick-level temperature is:
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:
This brooder is 4x8:
A thermometer on a brick gives me a reasonable idea of what the chick-level temperature is:
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