Got today new baby chick from TSC

[samanthaoverton]

If you cant get a bigger container, elevate the light. Do you have a bookshelf? You can put the shelf by the tote and clamp it and go up the shelves as they get older. I have done that, before hubby built a big brooder. You can also get a chick brooder plate. It's the concept of a momma hen. The chicks can come and go out from under it when cold, without a lamp. Some farm stores sell them...heres an example https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09F2J5NY...jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

 

[JubileeFarmer]

I put a thermometer under the lamp and then moved it off to the side its 18 " off the floor and its reading 102 degrees ! i put them in a longer tote ,i believe the other tote was shoter than my husband said at 32 inches long by 17 inches wide and much longer than the other i must have not heard right it was 23 " .what is a good reading?
Judy Mayes

102 is too warm. Chicks need a gradient, warm at one end and cool at the other, so that they can self select the correct temperature. Normally they will move around when not sleeping, going to the cool zone for a while and then going back to the warm zone to get warmed up and take a nap. The food and water should be in the cool zone. A brooder that is too small doesn't allow enough of a temperature gradient.

 

[Judykaymayes]

102 is too warm. Chicks need a gradient, warm at one end and cool at the other, so that they can self select the correct temperature. Normally they will move around when not sleeping, going to the cool zone for a while and then going back to the warm zone to get warmed up and take a nap. The food and water should be in the cool zone. A brooder that is too small doesn't allow enough of a

 

[Judykaymayes]

I am putting in a rubber livestock tank thats alot longer and wider today.

 

[Farmgirl283420]

I am putting in a rubber livestock tank thats alot longer and wider today.

Hi! How are your chicks?

 

[Judykaymayes]

Hi! How are your chicks?

I put them in a livestock and hung infa red heat bulb temp of 91 92 and they seem very content and happy.Thank you for asking!

 

[Farmgirl283420]

I put them in a livestock and hung infa red heat bulb temp of 91 92 and they seem very content and happy.Thank you for asking!

So it's been a bit is everyone doing well?

 

[Judykaymayes]

So it's been a bit is everyone doing well?

Yes everything is doing well .
thank you

 

[Judykaymayes]

Can you advise me where to post my questions about chicken breeding to come up with a certain breed or type?