Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder (Picture Heavy) - UPDATE

[lazy gardener]

Yeah but I was a noob and following the gospel of "they say" on the temps for week 1 through 4! Now that I have seen Blooie's massive success with MHP and how the chicks don't even hang in the heated cave all the time, it is THE way to go. Were I to do it all over again, I would still have my first ever chicks in the house because I would be a nervous wreck with them in the barn. But, being as I am now a "seasoned chicken farmer"

I don't need to do the "every half hour" checks to make sure they are OK.


You bet! And if you don't need it for the chicks, I'm sure you do things to your body that would benefit from a nice new heating pad

Now, Bruce... I know that you know that there's not likely any one on BYC, or any other place where we might converse who doesn't do those types of things to their body where a heating pad would be useful.

MesMama: Yes, a heating pad would be a wonderful thing to have, even if you have a seasoned broody. You never know when your broody may go AWOL for any number of reasons. Also, if you don't have an incubator, a HP would be great to have for the occasion when Broody leaves the nest but there are a few viable eggs left. In a pinch, I bet you could hatch those last few eggs with the HP.

 

[aart]

Quote: ROARS with laughter....OhMan!

Laughing with you, not at you.

 

[lazy gardener]

Sad, but we've all been there!

 

[Blooie]

Shoot, I'm STILL there!

 

[Beekissed]

My first mail order chicks kept inside had a gooseneck desk lamp with a regular 60 watt bulb bent over them..and that was turned off at night! Draped a towel over them and wished them the best of luck....never lost a one. And those grew to be the Gnarly Bunch and lived to a ripe old age.

I did wise up after that set of chicks and raised them all outside after that, so newbie at mail order chicks, I was once indeed.

 

[lazy gardener]

Don't kid yourself Blooie. If you've brooded your chicks outside, and continue to do so, and if you're pioneering the MHP, doing what "they say" shouldn't be done, I don't call you a noob. And, the day any of us progress from the episodes of second guessing ourselves is the day that we no longer possess the ability to learn and become better at any task we're mastering.

 

[Blooie]

Don't kid yourself Blooie. If you've brooded your chicks outside, and continue to do so, and if you're pioneering the MHP, doing what "they say" shouldn't be done, I don't call you a noob. And, the day any of us progress from the episodes of second guessing ourselves is the day that we no longer possess the ability to learn and become better at any task we're mastering.

Actually, LG, I'm not pioneering, I'm promoting. The pioneering in Mama Heating Pad was done long before I came along.

 

[nickel chick]

I wish I could pin this so I don't for get this when I will need it.

 

[Blooie]

I wish I could pin this so I don't for get this when I will need it.

You just did by responding. It will forever be on your computer when you come to BYC as a "subscription". And welcome to BYC and the wacky world of being a human broody hen!

 

[Blooie]

<plop> Ahh, back to familiar territory and friendly faces. Guess I'm killing my chickens by giving them cold water - at least the ones I didn't fry with my electromagnetic coil, homemade MRI.

Note to self - don't even go there, Diane!!! Grrrrrrrrr

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