Good thing you caught the heat lamp before a fire started. Every year I hear of house fires from heat lamps. It scares me as I have my heat lamp hanging in my house all day while I'm at work. I came home from work to a different scare the other day. I have been using the standard small plastic waterer with plastic water bottle. I hadn't been filling it completely up because I'm changing so often and had it set up on a board. When I came home the water dish had been knocked over and emptied into the bedding. Luckily the bedding around the waterer soaked up the water, and it must have happened a short while before I came home, because when I immediately filled and put back in, they weren't interested in drinking. Luckily, I had been home for lunch and checked on everything too. Now I use heavy glass bottles on the water and feed dish to weight them down. They have been running and "flying" from end to end of the brooder, so I am assuming that is how the bottle got knocked over. I've even had a chick get stuck between the wall of the brooder and the water dish. As a newbie, I am learning a lot and how easily things can happen.
