heat lamp fire?

[bobbi-j]

You have a heat lamp just 2’ above your paper feed bags? Bags that are likely gathering dust, which is also combustible? What you have there is a disaster waiting to happen. You bring your ducks in your house at night?

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

You have a heat lamp just 2’ above your paper feed bags? Bags that are likely gathering dust, which is also combustible? What you have there is a disaster waiting to happen. You bring your ducks in your house at night?

yes i bring them in at night, but during the day they can’t be fully outside in winter all day because the temp drop is too much which i why we have the heat lamp

 

[CHlCKEN]

how do you do your heat lamp to make sure it is safe?

I don’t actually use heat lamps, instead I have a radiant heater for my chicks. This will be my first winter where my chickens will not be using a heated horse stall for a winter coop, since the run has moved from the side of the barn. I haven’t figured out a plan, but we’ve got a while here considering it’s still 70 degrees and 60 even in the rain!

anyway I’m not sure what to say about securing a heat lamp since I don’t have one

 

[21hens-incharge]

It’s winter in many places. I’ve got friends in Idaho who are cranking their house up to 90! They certainly should never be denied extra heat in the winter. I mean try turning your heat off! It gets cold! If it’s snowy or very cold, then a heat lamp is never a bad idea.

yes I know ducks and humans are very different, but one universal thing is that we all get cold!

You and I can certainly disagree......apparently on a lot of things.

It IS winter here. We just had record lows falling below zero. Today was 49° outside. I did turn my furnace off AND opened windows. I did not do it because I wanted to be in the same temps as my birds. I did it because it does not bother me.....likely because I spend a great deal of time outside.

Birds are designed to grow extra feathers to handle the weather....and have an oil gland so they can waterproof themselves. Not being allowed to slowly acclimate to the cold (due to added heat) when power fails or the heat source fails THEN they struggle.

I provide a dry draft free safe space for them. I am not willing to risk a fire.

The chickadee, sparrow, and other birds do not die because no one gives them added heat. Our pioneering forefathers did not add heat and somehow chickens and ducks survived.

I understand the OP brings their birds in at night so they are not acclimated.

 

[Meg-in-MT]

At what temp do they sleep at night? Do you bring them in to 70°f or are they in a garage?

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

At what temp do they sleep at night? Do you bring them in to 70°f or are they in a garage?

in the house

 

[21hens-incharge]

in the house

How cold does it get during the day outside?

 

[Duck mommy 2019]

How cold does it get during the day outside?

in the winter in can get into the negatives

 

[bobbi-j]

Do you not have a secure place for them to sleep at night?

 

[NatJ]

in the winter in can get into the negatives

Fahrenheit or Celcius?