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[melissasz]

Hi Everyone
- As of today we are the proud owner of thirty Red-Stars. So far everything is going well but it is very hot and my brooder is up to 95 or a bit above. It doesn't seem to be bothering them. I shut it off for awhile while I cleaned the water tank and when I turned it on again they all made a bee line for it. It's supposed to cool down during the night to about 59. It's 71 right now. Should I put the brooder light down a little lower before bedtime? Or should I get up during the night and check on them.

Thanks,

Dave, Melissa
and kids

 

[Chickencoop1996]

 

[3chimama]

Welcome! they should be at the same temp all day and go down 5 degrees each week.

 

[melissasz]

Thanks for the welcome and the reply. Do you have your brooder light on a thermostat?

 

[NonnasBabies]

&

from Louisiana!

 

[melissasz]

Hi We are in Maine

 

[4-H chicken mom]

and

from Ohio. So glad you joined. I hang my heat lamp over the brooder. I lay a thermometer on the floor under the lamp. Then I raise or lower the lamp when needed. What kind of brooder heat are your using?

 

[dawg53]

Welcome to BYC.

 

[Desert Rooster]

Hello

from Hesperia,CA and

 

[melissasz]

Hi,

I'm using a heat bulb? I put our thermometer on the wall touching the ground up but I will move it to the floor underneath the light.
We had kind of a strange night. It was 90 in the brooder at 2am. At 5am it was only 80. I dropped the light down a few inches and the temp is creeping back up. The chicks didn't seem to mind. When I dropped the light down they didn't run to huddle under it. (They ran to have a drink of water.)
I feel like a new mom. I think the only time I actually slept was from 2 to 5.