morrischicks
In the Brooder
- Apr 18, 2020
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Good afternoon everyone! I’m Olivia 
First off - thank you all so much for the posts / threads we are able to read on this site, it has been SO helpful, before and after we’ve received our new chicks. We found BYC by simple google searches and I love feedback from real people. My husband, Scott, and I are new chick parents, and just got our first 16 chicks yesterday. We have
Black Sex links, Bantams, and Gold laced wyanodettes. We are hoping to get a few Rhode Island Reds or Isa Browns. We live in very upstate New York (30 miles from Montreal, Quebec) and want chickens that will thrive in winter and I won’t worry AS MUCH about them.
I am mostly a stay at home mother to our gorgeous toddler daughter while my husband rocks the poles (Union Electrical Lineman). Hobbies of ours include anything and everything outdoors, and CrossFit.
Enough about us - my main questions currently would love feedback on -
Our plans are to raise them mostly free range with their coop of course.
We’ve started them inside in a children’s swimming pool with pine shavings and feeder, water, heat lamp. After much research done today I feel like I would like to try the mama heating pad method I’ve seen a lot about on here. We’ve had them for two days now, will it be a problem to switch them to this method? Could I use the mama heating pad method inside the pool still or should we build a different brooder for them? I don’t mind them being inside necessarily as they’re in our basement - but am all about the most natural way for them to thrive.
Thank you everyone in advance I did read Blooies article on here about the MHP and outdoor brooders - but main question is is it now too late to switch them to that since they’ve had the heat lamp and is it okay to use it in the pool or should build a different brooder?
First off - thank you all so much for the posts / threads we are able to read on this site, it has been SO helpful, before and after we’ve received our new chicks. We found BYC by simple google searches and I love feedback from real people. My husband, Scott, and I are new chick parents, and just got our first 16 chicks yesterday. We haveBlack Sex links, Bantams, and Gold laced wyanodettes. We are hoping to get a few Rhode Island Reds or Isa Browns. We live in very upstate New York (30 miles from Montreal, Quebec) and want chickens that will thrive in winter and I won’t worry AS MUCH about them.
I am mostly a stay at home mother to our gorgeous toddler daughter while my husband rocks the poles (Union Electrical Lineman). Hobbies of ours include anything and everything outdoors, and CrossFit.
Enough about us - my main questions currently would love feedback on -
Our plans are to raise them mostly free range with their coop of course.
We’ve started them inside in a children’s swimming pool with pine shavings and feeder, water, heat lamp. After much research done today I feel like I would like to try the mama heating pad method I’ve seen a lot about on here. We’ve had them for two days now, will it be a problem to switch them to this method? Could I use the mama heating pad method inside the pool still or should we build a different brooder for them? I don’t mind them being inside necessarily as they’re in our basement - but am all about the most natural way for them to thrive.
Thank you everyone in advance
I did read Blooies article on here about the MHP and outdoor brooders - but main question is is it now too late to switch them to that since they’ve had the heat lamp and is it okay to use it in the pool or should build a different brooder?
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