Cant get brooder to 95 degrees

[Happy Chooks]

My chicks don't like 95. They prefer 85 and even then they are just on the fringe of the light, not huddled in the middle. If they're not huddled and piled on top of each other, then they're fine.

 

[underground chickenman]

How high above the floor is the wire? What is the temperature of the room where you have the brooder? Is the room temperature constant day and night? What is the wattage of bulb you are using? Do you have a reflector on your bulb? Is the bulb a white bulb or a red bulb? How big is the brooder (LxWxH)? Where on the floor are you measuring the temp, directly under the light or somewhere else? How many chicks will be in the brooder?

The anwers to these questions should help with the responses. I know they will help mine.

UGCM