Please help, I have 5 chicks, breed and sex unknown!, we got them from my daughters preschool, they hatched the chicks and needed homes for them......so we volunteered to raise some!!
Anyway, they are in a lovely box with food, water and lined with clean pine shavings, but my problem is that our original heat lamp was perfect, they would snuggle underneath the heat and snooze but it conked out within a few hours!!! My new heat lamp is up and running but they are as far away from it as they can get. I have made it higher but they still squeeze past each other to get as far away from it as possible!
It is the same as our first one, just a different brand. I can't raise it up any higher, it's at the max I can get it!!
Any suggestions? Our chicks are about 2 weeks old, and we have had them for about 10 hours!!!!!
Anyway, they are in a lovely box with food, water and lined with clean pine shavings, but my problem is that our original heat lamp was perfect, they would snuggle underneath the heat and snooze but it conked out within a few hours!!! My new heat lamp is up and running but they are as far away from it as they can get. I have made it higher but they still squeeze past each other to get as far away from it as possible!
It is the same as our first one, just a different brand. I can't raise it up any higher, it's at the max I can get it!!
Any suggestions? Our chicks are about 2 weeks old, and we have had them for about 10 hours!!!!!