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

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OK. Just got back from the barn. The bigger frame is too big. I have cut the sides off the smaller frame, will tape them and put some kind of a cover (pillow case ect) over the whole thing and secure it. Now the cave has 3 long sides so no one should get trapped.
I think once they are little larger I could switch to the bigger frame when they don't need heat as much as a safe place to sleep.
Right now our night time temps are 50-60 and should stay in that range.
Here is the new version unfinished. I've got to go buy more tape and some bungee cords.

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Bekissed. I had to order the 12x25 with no auto shut off from Amazon, couldn't find one locally. I decided Friday I might need another heating pad, but the only ones I can find in stores have an auto shut off at 2hrs. I can order another today and they'll just have to survive for a couple of days with the one pad I guess. I should have it by Friday.
 
aart said:
Detailed.closeup pics of this would be great.
Did you put anything on top to protect the pad from wet poops soaking thru?
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When clean it out again we will get pics.

However, there is a towel over the pillow case, and the seed mat is "water proof" as in it can get wet, but you can't submerge it. when we had it under the seed trays, there was always moister on it.

They are a week old now, and have taken to running and jumping from the top of the MHP and dive bombing each other, it's a rather loud racket when one take off and lands on the others, but they all do it to each other, kinda funny to watch.
 
My sunbeam pad is able to washed so I haven't worried about the poo too much. I have a cloth diaper taped around the whole thing to protect front the wires. I figure I will just wash it all when I am done. The popes dry and get flicked off often. I have another cloth diaper on the top draped over the openings that gets changed out as well.
 
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circlehouse said:
My sunbeam pad is able to washed so I haven't worried about the poo too much. I have a cloth diaper taped around the whole thing to protect front the wires. I figure I will just wash it all when I am done. The popes dry and get flicked off often. I have another cloth diaper on the top draped over the openings that gets changed out as well.
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When I pulled the towel off the MHP 'roof' (I use thin piece of plywood on top of pad as a roof) to wash it.....

......I was d@mn glad that saturated mess was not on the heating pad,
I threw the towel right in the garbage can - thanking @Blooie for the idea.

Took me back to diaper days...cloth diapers that I laundered myself.
 
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aart said:
When I pulled the towel off the MHP 'roof' (I use thin piece of plywood on top of pad as a roof) to wash it.....

......I was d@mn glad that saturated mess was not on the heating pad,
I threw the towel right in the garbage can - thanking @Blooie
 for the idea.

Took me back to diaper days...cloth diapers that I laundered myself.
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Yes I have cloth diapered both my kids, and handwashing at times. Poo does not scare me!
 
circlehouse said:
Yes I have cloth diapered both my kids, and handwashing at times. Poo does not scare me!
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Not only did I cloth diaper my kids (It was either that or go back to work, so I could afford disposables. No thank you!) but I made many of my own diapers. That was in the day when it was actually cheaper to buy the cloth and make stuff myself than it was to buy it. Now, it cost more to make a lot of stuff than it does to buy it.
 

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