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AllenK RGV said:
Nice intro Chris, wow you dream big! I can't imagine keeping that many chicken but glad you can. So many of us will poo poo your choice of using a heat lamp having moved to heat pad systems due to increased fire risks or teflon poisoning. But whatever works for you works for you.

I am personally about to get my next 5 chicks so about to be on pasty butt watch again as well. So sorry to hear you lost one but it sounds like you learned a lesson. Welcome to BYC!
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Heya,
Thanks for the response! Heating pads? I had no idea. I guess I have some research to do. This is why I came to BYC. Information like this so I can be better. Do you have a recommended brand you can point me in the direction of? Or a thread here that I can read up on the issues? Thanks again.
 
miletichc said:
Heya,
Thanks for the response! Heating pads? I had no idea. I guess I have some research to do. This is why I came to BYC. Information like this so I can be better. Do you have a recommended brand you can point me in the direction of? Or a thread here that I can read up on the issues? Thanks again.
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@Blooie was the original author of the MHP system, I just bought a Sunbeam model 713 from my local walmart, their heat pads don't have the auto shutoff. The 713 is 12'x15" and uses 50w max. Hope this is a thick enough trail of bread crumbs for you to find your own way.
 
Maybe this will help....(thanks for the tag, @AllenK RGV) but I can't claim to be the "original author" - that honor goes to my mentor, Beekissed and Patrice Lopatin. All I did was try it, document it as I did it, and share what I was learning as I was learning it.

I'm going to post a link to the Mama Heating Pad thread for you, @miletichc . Most of the information is right there in the first post, and despite all the wonderful innovations and modifications in the thread - and it's an intimidating long thread, I warn ya - I haven't changed it even after 8 batches of chicks, except for now brooding them all outdoors from the start and changing how I set up the MHP with the pad on the underside instead of draped over the top. I was even a holdout there, but did try it. But even the link to that page is right there in the first post, at the bottom. Beekissed's photos and description are about halfway down on page 46, which is where that additional link in the first post will take you. Hope this all helps!
http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/956958/mama-heating-pad-in-the-brooder-picture-heavy-update
 

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