My husband said he'd like to transfer them to the garage. Having a heat lamp in the garage worries me. I thought I saw something last week about a "mama heating pad" so maybe that's something we should look into if we transfer them to the garage. The weather right now is in the high 70s but this time of the year, it can change drastically by the day. Half the chicks are about 4 or 5 weeks. The others are only 2 or 3 weeks old.
Do look into that for sure.
With a lamp or an MHP?
Possibly both. Lots of cold and damp snow coming. My heat lamp compartment is high, likely won't heat to more than 55 under it.
Oh, that's right...nice brooder space you have there.
Really...you almost removed it didn't you?
Well I wouldn't say almost. Had second thoughts about it for sure. And I'll want to again after crawling around to get into it! My bedding got so deep I've already cut down doors a bit. A remodel would help.
I need to snap some pics of our chickies too. We have 3 separations because one batch of the chicks are older and then there is one area for the ducks. That plastic tote ended up being cut down on the side and we're just using it to keep the duck water in so they don't end up spilling it everywhere. Our heat lamp (not pictured as he was still constructing the bars to hang it off) is hanging from above. We do still have our little 2 or 3 week olders in the house since it's supposed to be in the 30's in a couple of days but they'll be going out once they have some feathers. They younger ones in the house are still 
