Is it bad not to use a heating lamp?

[My First Time Farm]

Besides the raining yes. Regular Temps would be 85 to 90 raining Temps are 70 to 80.

That makes morse sense. I'm assuming it's still pretty warm/hot where you are?

 

[21hens-incharge]

I got some babies on the 9th and brought them inside to their brooder with water and feed. But I never thought about putting in a heat lamp. I have had them for about 2 weeks now and I was wondering if it affected them in any way?I have alway wrapped a blanket on top of the broader and always had shavings inside and all of them seem to be healthy im just making sure it's ok.

How many chicks did you get?
They sleep in a pile so if you had more than a few that certainly helped.

For my area.....I am not sure that doing it without a heat source here would yield many survivors.

 

[My First Time Farm]

Interesting! Chicks are extremely sensitive when dealing with temperature, good for you that they made it this long without a heat lamp. The older they get the less heat they will need so I can only imagine you wouldn’t really need a heat lamp/plate at this point since they are so used to being without one.

Yea...Believe it or not this is actually my third clutch that I have raised without a heat lamp. My first ones were 4 leghorns. They are about 4 months now. Second was some orps brahmas and a blue andalusian they are about 2 months. And now I have these.

 

[My First Time Farm]

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How many chicks did you get?
They sleep in a pile so if you had more than a few that certainly helped.

For my area.....I am not sure that doing it without a heat source here would yield many survivors.

 

[black_cat]

Besides the raining yes. Regular Temps would be 85 to 90 raining Temps are 70 to 80.

Oh yeah, that's hot enough to sustain them especially because you have enough that they'll keep eachother warm.

 

[NatJ]

I got some babies on the 9th and brought them inside to their brooder with water and feed. But I never thought about putting in a heat lamp. I have had them for about 2 weeks now and I was wondering if it affected them in any way?I have alway wrapped a blanket on top of the broader and always had shavings inside and all of them seem to be healthy im just making sure it's ok.

The usual guideline is that they need access to a space that's 95 degrees farenheit the first week, 90 the next week, and it continues to go down after that.

In practice, they usually warm up and then run around and do other things, then go warm up again.

If they crowd together to sleep, that makes them a few degrees warmer than if they were all spread out (but too much crowding can suffocate some of them, so it can be tricky to balance that.)

In MOST climates that we hear about, a heat lamp or other source of heat is required to get it that warm. Air conditioned houses are usually too cool, also. But there are some places warm enough to brood chicks without added heat, at least during some parts of the year--you appear to be in one of those places.

I think problems would usually show up pretty early: constant peeping, chicks not growing well, chicks dying. You say yours are doing well, so I think they will likely continue to do well.

(But if you raise another batch of chicks when the weather is colder, you might need to provide heat for them.)

 

[aart]

The usual guideline is that they need access to a space that's 95 degrees farenheit the first week, 90 the next week, and it continues to go down after that.

This is usually too hot, better to go by behavior and use a therm to check temps.
Here's my take on......
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/aarts-chick-heat-blurb.75619/