No practical brooding equipment

[RainForestBird]

I guess this is more pot a rant than anything else - for the last two years since I've been raising poultry and gamebirds I've noticed that there is no practical brooding equipment on the market except for maybe brinsea that is out of my price range and ridiculously overpriced. Broader lamps are dangerous and fall apart easily. The clamps are the dumbest thing I've ever seen. I have so many broader light clamps lying around because I can never get them to fit securely back on the ceramic lamp base. Last fall I suffered a sever burn on my wrist from a 240 watt brooder lamp that took months to heal and I've heard that they have started many barn fires. It is simply too dry here this year to risk it so I've been moving my hatchlings around my property all day and night to get the right temperature without electricity. It's stressful and traumatic whenthey get too hot or cold. This would be a great opportunity for someone to create drinkers that didn't leak brooder heaters that didn't burn and brooder that didn't endanger chicks and duckling at a reasonable price and make a bundle off all of us#

 

[3riverschick]

Http://sweeterheater.com
I use incandescant soft white 75 and 100 now. Looking forward to getting sweeter heaters instead. Even that famous poultry "how-to raise" poultry author switched to them.
Best,
Karen

 

[junebuggena]

Have you checked out the mama heating pad brooder?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...d-in-the-brooder-picture-heavy-update.956958/