Help chick be less lonely during healing

[Ercwyne]

I do sometimes (like right now) use a heat lamp, and it's so important to ignore the clamp some arrive with, and instead double or triple a hanging assembly instead. With a chain, to a solid overhead structure.
I'm so glad your chick is healing, and that you didn't loose all of them, or burn your place down!
Also, the more expensive and much safer Premier1supplies heat lamp is a safer choice.
And the brooder plates are so much better!
Mary

Im never using a heat lamp again tbh. I was using a plate but i got more chicks that were a lot smaller and they needed the plate more and since I only had 1 plate thats why i swapped the older ones to the lamp. Plates are just pricey, but you know whats more pricey? Vet bills lol

 

[Ercwyne]

I stopped using heat lamps after one time a droplet of water flew off of my hand, hit the lamp, and the lamp exploded (shattered). Thankfully the chicks were shielded from most of the blast, but never again.

I switched over to an adjustable height brooder plate and never looked back. Safer, easier for the chicks to regulate, and easier to integrate into a brooding situation.

Yes i agree im never using a lamp again. I was trying to be safe and prevent shattering by using ceramic not glass. I have a plate but its in use for younger chicks atm. Im going to be buying a second one

 

[Folly's place]

We too have two brooder plates, one smaller and one larger. And they never actually hold the number of chicks listed for the particular size, except maybe that first week. Like the fantasy numbers of birds who can live in those premade coops!
mary