This is very interesting and very helpful!!! Thank you!!! It should somehow be made current so we can see if people still do them and success rate. Very intriguing!!! Thank you! I would have never found it as I don't know enough about how to find things on this site. Thank you so much!!!
What is the hot water bucket method? (Sorry if it has been described and I missed it.)
No, it wasn't described in this thread although if you look up the link about the wool hen I believe it may be mentioned in their a bit. From what I understand you fill a milk jug or water jug with hot water and wrap it will to hold the heat in. Then you build a sort of cave over it all to help keep the heat in and for your chicks to go into. I have some five gallon buckets so i was thinking of trying them to make a bigger cave so it's large enough for the chicks. I'm still researching it so I'm not real good at telling you exactly how to do it as I've not tried it yet. But it's intriguing and since it's basically pretty warm here I think it should work should i use my small insulated chicken coop and insulate somehow to keep the water hot to keep it warm. It would need to be changed out periodically but I can't say how often as I've not tried it yet. But I'm intrigued. Another thing could be to make a box (with a cutout door) out of insulation with the towel wrapped buckets inside to provide heat also.
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Mama Heating Pad.
Thank you! My chicks have always been under heat lamps- we have 2 and are moving them out to the out door brooder soon. Will I need a MHP along with the heat lamps?
No, the mama heat pad is a standalone heating device just like a heat lamp or brooder plate would be… they are all either or type devices with no need to use more than one
