- Oct 2, 2012
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We are headed out tomorrow to pick up six chicks, about 5 weeks old.
They will be staying in a brooder in our basement. We made it as per the suggestion of the woman we are buying them from - a big wire dog crate, with pine shavings, a heat lamp and a thermometer. We have their medicated food, waterer, etc.
I'm not quite sure where to put the heat lamp. The woman at Agway recommended clipping it to a chair, but it just keeps slipping. I am guessing that the lamp stays outside of the crate so it can be moved back to turn down the heat gradually, right?
I am SO very new to this! It's late fall in New York, so I want to make sure I do everything right to keep these babies arm until spring!
They will be staying in a brooder in our basement. We made it as per the suggestion of the woman we are buying them from - a big wire dog crate, with pine shavings, a heat lamp and a thermometer. We have their medicated food, waterer, etc.
I'm not quite sure where to put the heat lamp. The woman at Agway recommended clipping it to a chair, but it just keeps slipping. I am guessing that the lamp stays outside of the crate so it can be moved back to turn down the heat gradually, right?
I am SO very new to this! It's late fall in New York, so I want to make sure I do everything right to keep these babies arm until spring!
