Mellowmalt
Songster
My current brooder only has a fist sized ventilation hole and my chicks have done fine for the past 4 weeks trying this new one over an open top one. I exchange the air at least once a day when changing food and water so as long as the 65 holes = a fist sized hole in area then you should be good. If humidity does stay over 60% long term then it will need more holes - if not then it will not need more holes.
I can understand people saying drill more holes, the more ventilation the better sure but not when a cat is about or if those people are paying the electric bill (although in this case heat is coming from the outside and to me a heat controlled heat lamp would be far cheaper, what did you read about heat lamps that are so bad? They are brilliant, they just have some negatives that if addressed are good.
Like they need to be thermoregulated or they can overheat. They dry the air so more humidity needs to be provided to compensate.
If you don't do these things then you will encounter problems and declare heat lamps are bad but I am guessing if you do address the issues then heat lamps are not bad.
A space heater to me is terrible for example. Yes it will provide heat evenly using 10 times the electricity so to me that is very bad.
Everyone has their own criteria of what is bad
I can understand people saying drill more holes, the more ventilation the better sure but not when a cat is about or if those people are paying the electric bill (although in this case heat is coming from the outside and to me a heat controlled heat lamp would be far cheaper, what did you read about heat lamps that are so bad? They are brilliant, they just have some negatives that if addressed are good.
Like they need to be thermoregulated or they can overheat. They dry the air so more humidity needs to be provided to compensate.
If you don't do these things then you will encounter problems and declare heat lamps are bad but I am guessing if you do address the issues then heat lamps are not bad.
A space heater to me is terrible for example. Yes it will provide heat evenly using 10 times the electricity so to me that is very bad.
Everyone has their own criteria of what is bad