Ouch, @Ridgerunner I've seen many of @azygous post in other threads where she has indeed given advice on heat lamp use and early chick care, and she understands as well as I do that Mama Heating Pad isn't right for every situation. I don't think (and she can correct me if I'm wrong) that she was "proselytizing". I read through the thread and I think she was strongly advising the OP to go BACK to the system the chicks were already used to. Her first response to the OP supports that, because nowhere in it does she mention MHP, instead focusing on what kind of bulb she changed to and what her brooder temps were in order to get her chicks to settle down when she was using a lamp. It was only in the second response, after the OP had mentioned that the chicks had been under Mama Heating Pad in the feed store already, that she told the OP to get them back under one because that's how it was where they came from. Since we all agree that chicks/chickens don't do change well, that answer made sense.
Now obviously @MedSchlFarmers has been able to resolve her problem with the distress cheeping chick she was hearing, and whether that happened under a heat lamp or a heating pad doesn't matter a bit. It's all good either way if the chicks are doing well and I know @azygous believes that too, as she has helped others who have been experiencing problems. Yep, she's a convert to this system.....so am I and so are lots and lots of other people. Watching Patrice Lopatin's video of raising chicks outside, and then hearing how successful it was for @Beekissed made a believer out of me, and I'm always sure to credit those who came before me. Just never heard it referred to as a "cult" before, and while there are few on BYC I have more respect for than you, I kinda don't like that description.....it makes it sound nefarious, and like a temporary flash in the pan or some kind of "get rich quick scheme" somehow. It's new, but not that new. There are threads back to 2010 where people either wondered about it or were trying it.
Personally I got a huge kick out of the fact that a feed store is using it. I've also seen representatives from hatcheries on the Mama Heating Pad thread recently as well. That sure doesn't make MHP the only way to raise chicks, and I'm the first to admit that and I've even advised against it in some situations. I've referred many a person to your system, the brooder in the coop with the lamp on one side. But it does mean that others are starting to appreciate the simplicity and the safety of using it, and if our enthusiasm for MHP comes across in our posts, I think we can be forgiven.
Now obviously @MedSchlFarmers has been able to resolve her problem with the distress cheeping chick she was hearing, and whether that happened under a heat lamp or a heating pad doesn't matter a bit. It's all good either way if the chicks are doing well and I know @azygous believes that too, as she has helped others who have been experiencing problems. Yep, she's a convert to this system.....so am I and so are lots and lots of other people. Watching Patrice Lopatin's video of raising chicks outside, and then hearing how successful it was for @Beekissed made a believer out of me, and I'm always sure to credit those who came before me. Just never heard it referred to as a "cult" before, and while there are few on BYC I have more respect for than you, I kinda don't like that description.....it makes it sound nefarious, and like a temporary flash in the pan or some kind of "get rich quick scheme" somehow. It's new, but not that new. There are threads back to 2010 where people either wondered about it or were trying it.
Personally I got a huge kick out of the fact that a feed store is using it. I've also seen representatives from hatcheries on the Mama Heating Pad thread recently as well. That sure doesn't make MHP the only way to raise chicks, and I'm the first to admit that and I've even advised against it in some situations. I've referred many a person to your system, the brooder in the coop with the lamp on one side. But it does mean that others are starting to appreciate the simplicity and the safety of using it, and if our enthusiasm for MHP comes across in our posts, I think we can be forgiven.
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