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I have most certainly raised chicks with heat lamps. I add only about 5 chicks/year but I've been doing this (I never actually counted the years until this question,) for 24years. Heat lamps for 16 years, mommy hut for 8 years. I have not raised with a broody, however my Grandma did and I grew up watching her chickens. That's a different rabbit hole, the way my parents and their parents did things. Some of it was great, some of it, ehh not for me. In comparison I shouldn't make it sound like I think heat lamps are the devil. They are so very helpful when you really do need some more heat! I grew up in Alaska.... I didn't raise chickens in Alaska but I think I really would have a heat lamp in my coop at -40* I got frostbite, it's real. I just think that given my circumstances in Oregon, mommy hut is the way to go with no extra heat needed. I'm getting my littles today! Overnight temps are high 30's. I tested the mommy temp with a meat thermometer just now, it has 2 heating pads and I had to turn it down a bit, it got up to *89.Have you raised chicks with broody hens?
Have you raised chicks with heat lamps?
If so, how do you think either of them compares?