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I didn't have a heat lamp last year when I hatched. I just used a regular desk lamp with about a 60 watt old fashioned bulb. You know, the kind they don't sell anymore. It put out plenty of heat for my brooder.

I am in Georgia and I don't hatch until the weather is just about a full summer (the end of May) when it's warm anyway. Does anyone think that using a regular lamp is a bad risk? Seems like most lamps put out heat except LED's. I've got 22 in the bator now that have 23 days to go.
 
Pyxis said:
Yikes, never gonna use one of those bulbs for my bearded dragon! So glad to read that all the ducklings were okay.

All the possible dangers with heat lamps is what lead me to switch to using the Premier1 heat plate brooders, which I love now. All the poultry love them, it more closely mimics a natural brooding by a hen, and they use much less electricity too.

I've seen far too many people accidentally burn down their coops with heat lamps, and even the ones with shatterproof coating are dangerous, since the shatterproof coating is actually Teflon, and as we parrot owners have known for years, the fumes that Teflon puts off when it gets hot enough kill birds. Actually, there's a good article about it on here written by @BantyChooks.

So with all these possible dangers, I avoid heat lamps the best I can.
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It is not only the danger of burning down you coop, but also burning yourself! I had a 40 Watts standard light bulb in my duck house last year, guess what: I was busy cleaning out the bedding and touched the lamp - not the bulb, the lamp! - with my ear. - Second degree burn with a huge blister! Since then its a 3 watt LED warm-tone light.
 
Thats scary! Did you switch to ceramic heat bulbs or what did you do?

@DuckyDonna alot will say it messes with their sleep pattern. But red is about the same.

People say the red light spectrum doesnt disrupt sleeping patterns like normal bulbs. But its a 50/50 arguement but everyones chicks and ducklings grew up fine

only something like a red diode would create light only using the red spectrum. While a lightbulb with red tint still uses the entire light spectrum from UV to IR but the red glass is supposed to filter the whites and blues out

i dont beleive the red tint on bulbs actualy filters out the blue light spectrum. it looks like it to us but human eyes are realy bad compared to most animals.

So ide argue that red and normal bulbs have no difference except for light intensity. the normal bulb is usualy a little brighter
But iam no scientist

Warm Ducky Happy Ducky :)
 
WannaBeHillBilly said:
It is not only the danger of burning down you coop, but also burning yourself! I had a 40 Watts standard light bulb in my duck house last year, guess what: I was busy cleaning out the bedding and touched the lamp - not the bulb, the lamp! - with my ear. - Second degree burn with a huge blister! Since then its a 3 watt LED warm-tone light.
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Ouch! Sensitive spot too eh?
 

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