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Uhlmane said:
Saturday's the day, got everything setup and ready for some reds and some anconas to start! Just making sure the brooder will get to temp with 1 light. Might need a second or some insulation... or both, stupid cold weather.
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Add a couple of chains to the lamp for additional security. Don't rely solely on the clamp to secure it.
You can always lower the lamp to increase the heat at one end of the brooder. Aim to keep the other end as cool as possible and keep the water and food on that end.
How cold is cold?
Monitor the activity of the chicks to determine if they are too cold or too hot. If they cluster under the lamp and distress peep, they are cold. Lower the lamp.
If they spread out as far from the lamp as they can with their wings out, they are hot. Raise the lamp.
They should be peeping contentedly and zipping back and forth between the heat source and the food.
 
DobieLover said:
Add a couple of chains to the lamp for additional security. Don't rely solely on the clamp to secure it.
You can always lower the lamp to increase the heat at one end of the brooder. Aim to keep the other end as cool as possible and keep the water and food on that end.
How cold is cold?
Monitor the activity of the chicks to determine if they are too cold or too hot. If they cluster under the lamp and distress peep, they are cold. Lower the lamp.
If they spread out as far from the lamp as they can with their wings out, they are hot. Raise the lamp.
They should be peeping contentedly and zipping back and forth between the heat source and the food.
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I'll move the food farther from the heat and add chains, both seem like great ideas. So far they seem happy, they were sleeping in a pile off to the side of the "hot zone" but no wings out. Thermometer has been reading pretty constant 95 so i think i have the heat dialed pretty well.
 
Uhlmane said:
Here's how they were setup but i think I'll adjust it to be a bit cooler at one end with food and water farther from the lamp.

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They look a little hot. I'd raise the lamp a bit.
Can you find a ceramic heat bulb that doesn't emit light? They do better with a normal light cycle.
 
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