help please!!!

[MomtoSyd&Emma]

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We have been lol We keep going over and checking it out really good, also its not right on top of the bin its a good ways off of it, there is also a top that he built but we had it off while we were putting the thermometer in the bin when I snapped this shot.

 

[debilorrah]

Very nice!! I am confident you are safe. Thanks for making me feel better!

 

[MomtoSyd&Emma]

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Trust me I am a worry wart!! I posted pix under a thread, help me ID my TSC chicks, check my babies out! lol

 

[debilorrah]

MomtoSyd&Emma :

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Trust me I am a worry wart!! I posted pix under a thread, help me ID my TSC chicks, check my babies out! lol

I am a worry wart too - not with chicks so much anymore because I have been around that block quite a few times now. But, when I hatch one and it needs help out I am up and down all night long checking on it.​

 

[Shelly_WNC]

your heat lamp set up looks good ... your right the most important thing is to secure it. You might want to put hardware cloth wire on the lid of the rubbermaid to (use that wood to make a lid). Just in case the lamp should fall the 'wire lid' would catch it some what.

I use a reptile cage (aka fish tank) and twice I moved my heat lamp to close to the edge of it (by accident) and it melted to tank plastic rim ( yikes). So we rigged the heat lamp off the tank , like you did , and it's worked great now for 5 weeks.

You will worry a lot in the beginning of chick raising

 

[MomtoSyd&Emma]

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Yeah we have a super duper well made topper out of hardware cloth (aka rabbit wire) but we had taken it off to show our daughters the chicks and to add the thermometer to the bin.

 

[ChickyLaura]

I also use a rubbermaid container. It is the best brooder I've had yet. Just be aware about the lamp, and you'll be fine! I like the rubbermaid containers because they're a cinch to clean.

Have fun!

 

[rancher hicks]

I have used the same type of set up from the first time I got chicks. Funny thing happened today though. I tape a thermometer at chick level so I can monitor the temp where they are and go accordingly. Today I went to change the bin was washing the old one in the bathtub and as I did I saw I hadn't taken the thermometer out. Fortuanately I dont' think I ruined it.
I do raise the light as they get older to reduce the temp.

 

[MomtoSyd&Emma]

I TRIED to get a pic to show the topper he made BUT we have it upside down on the bin to keep the buggers in as the boards we had werent the perfect size lol Also he had put some boards under the topper to move it up when we first put the chicks in as we had the light clamped on the side of the topper then, but of course not now lol