MissE
Crowing
Does anyone have experience with brooder plates for new chicks in cooler temps?
My brooder is in the barn. I currently have a 250 watt infrared light, which is keeping the brooder at 95-98 under the light. The other end of the brooder stays around 65-70.
It is 33 degrees in the barn. We can expect low temps in the 30s or even 20s until June.
I would like to use a brooder plate for multiple reasons, one being natural light and darkness cycles, but I don't know if it would be warm enough.
My chicks hatched 4/10 and I just set a new batch of eggs yesterday. One option would be to use the heat light until the new hatch comes, move the old hatch to the brooder plate, and keep the new ones under the heat light until three weeks old. By then, the others would be just over six weeks and wouldn't need heat, and the new hatch could then be moved to the brooder plate.
My brooder is in the barn. I currently have a 250 watt infrared light, which is keeping the brooder at 95-98 under the light. The other end of the brooder stays around 65-70.
It is 33 degrees in the barn. We can expect low temps in the 30s or even 20s until June.
I would like to use a brooder plate for multiple reasons, one being natural light and darkness cycles, but I don't know if it would be warm enough.
My chicks hatched 4/10 and I just set a new batch of eggs yesterday. One option would be to use the heat light until the new hatch comes, move the old hatch to the brooder plate, and keep the new ones under the heat light until three weeks old. By then, the others would be just over six weeks and wouldn't need heat, and the new hatch could then be moved to the brooder plate.