Lighting for chicks with no electricity - HELP!

You don't NEED light you need LONG term heat.

Hot water bottles in the bottom of a foam cooler should work. I'd bring another cooler stuffed to the gills with HOT WATER jars or bottles - so they hold heat and you can trade out the ones that cool off as you sell the chicks.

You just need the ability to keep them very warm, dry and draft free.

 

I don't know how many chicks you're talking about, but my 12 were shipped from the hatchery with a small disposable hand warmer in the box. You can buy these pretty cheap from a sporting good store. Maybe a "box in a box" with the hand warmer in the smaller, inside box to better retain the heat. You could replace the hand warmers as needed.

 

someone mentioned the disposable hand warmers in a post about power outages. i thought that was one of the best examples of someone thinking out of the box. you can get six to eight hours of heat from them and they're not expensive.

 

The friend I often get chicks from uses heat wraps (the kind for sore muscles) They have the adhesive back that she'll attach to the walls or floor of the box. They stay warm for a long time and the chicks love them. All of mine have come home healthy and happy!

Sonja

 

If you are planning on doing thes often, you may want to look at one of the radient propane heaters that people use for camping, or possibly a power inverter and car battery to provide heat for the chicks

 

you may also want to look in the rv section of your local sporting goods store for 12 volt incandescent bulbs that cabn be run from your car's cigarette lighter

 

Wal-mart has really cheap disposable hand warmers all year back in the sporting goods dept.
I would say that if you use a propane heater I would just point it towards their box and not actually put it in with them. Those things burn a lot of oxygen and it might not be good in close quarters for the chicks???

 

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I would not put the heater in the box with them. I would not run the propane heater in any enclosed space, such as a car. Carbon monoxide poisioning.