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

[Blooie]

Boy, is it quiet in here for it being chick season!

 

[TexasLisa]

What can we say.....we had the best teacher instructing us on how to raise chicks!!

 

[Blooie]

We had a thread full of great instructors, Lisa! I’ve been so proud of this thread all along......the way everyone is so willing to help others, answer questions, and brainstorm when anyone had an issue, and doing it all with courtesy and a touch of humor! There was only one time it got a bit snippy - and I was part of that conversation.

 

[wyoDreamer]

It's not chick season here yet!!
We got rain yesterday evening and it was 18 degrees this morning.

I am not dealing with chicks in the barn this time of year, lol.

 

[PerlyBee]

Tried the MHP Blooie it worked wonderfully! Thank you! Kept going back and forth to the article everytime i had a question.

 

[Blooie]

Awesome! Glad to have you in the Brigade!!

 

[csneill]

I’m back to chickens too... as of today... brought home 12 chicks. They are currently all sleeping under the heating pad! Love this set up!

 

[bruceha2000]

Boy, is it quiet in here for it being chick season!

Not here is isn't!! And I don't plan to get any chicks this year. I have 23 hens age nearly 8 to nearly a year. They've been ramping up production of late, usually 10 to 12 a day. Don't need any more! Of course come next fall and winter when they are all on their annual vacation I'll have none so I have to start freezing before they all shut down.

 

[RoyalChick]

I have studied the articles by @Blooie and by @aart , and I have tried (but failed) to read everything on this thread. I find the MHP idea very appealing and have designed a brooder (or jail or hospital) into my coop design so when my coop is finally finished and I am ready to introduce new chicks into my flock this feels like the way to go to minimize social disruption.
But I am worried about quarantine. Elsewhere on this site people say you should quarantine for at least 30 days. But by then the little chicks would barely need the MHP and will be quite large.
So how do you guys handle the quarantine issue when using this method to introduce new chicks?

 

[Molpet]

I have studied the articles by @Blooie and by @aart , and I have tried (but failed) to read everything on this thread. I find the MHP idea very appealing and have designed a brooder (or jail or hospital) into my coop design so when my coop is finally finished and I am ready to introduce new chicks into my flock this feels like the way to go to minimize social disruption.
But I am worried about quarantine. Elsewhere on this site people say you should quarantine for at least 30 days. But by then the little chicks would barely need the MHP and will be quite large.
So how do you guys handle the quarantine issue when using this method to introduce new chicks?

Chicks that were hatched in an incubator, have a low exposure to diseases. Chicks that were hatched under a broody would have been exposed and should be quarantined