Does an aquarium make a good brooder?

[CAjerseychick]

A regular 25 W household bulb, which is what the link is showing even tho it's red, won't produce enuf heat. There are people on here who will tell you you HAVE to use RED!!! I'm here to tell you, NO YOU DON'T. I have never used anything but a standard household 100W WHITE bulb & all of my babies have done FABULOUS. No feather picking, they sleep at night like normal chickens, NOT neurotic, etc. etc. etc. Just go buy yourself a 4 pack of 100W household bulbs for $1.25 at Wal-Mart & save a TON of money & headaches.

I second that-- we used a regular 125 watt white light because the only red one we found was 250 watts and its the middle of summer (90's) and I didnt want fried chickens-- and it worked great-- they really didnt huddle near it after week 2 and they are fine and healthy (ok I have one weird one that insists on bathing in his mash but that is another Thread).... go for it!

 

[clogan98]

Yeah, why do they only come in 250! That's exactly why I didn't get one. It's already 80 degrees in the house. That would have cooked their little faces off. So I bought 100 watts and painted them blue. Worked great. They don't like the heat anyway for some strange reason. The are always on the cold side of the tank so I started only leaving it on at night.