*resolved* Thanks everyone!

[Shikens!]

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After reading your thread I am concerned you may be cheating with my man! LOL

I think I will be ok not buying anything to keep them warm at this point. If they start huddling together I can start to cry and then my fiance will surely agree to using a small light of some sort...

I mean like the above poster said I am in FL and by mid june it is sure to be ambient temps in the 90s daily! I'm brooding them in the hen house! DUH!

Yeah for you- HEY WAIT A MINUTE....

Well anyhow in the end I moved them outside in March at 4 weeks and they did fine, all 8 of them...

Of course I -do- have impossible to break broodies here... 'hint' 'hint'

That is awesome to hear! I'm currently snoopin in yer pictchas... Are those SLW? My future chicks are BLRWs. I'll be rehoming 9 of them after I pick 3 hens... interested in some? hee hee!

I feel so much better now! I am such a doofus not realizing how hot it will be outside once my chicks arrive!

 

[sjmarshall87]

As long as no one is pouring water directly on lamp, trip over cords and knocking the lamp over, or leaving the lamp on while ontop of extremely flamable items it will be fine.

Sounds like the fiance has a decision to make... spend $12 on a heat lamp (1,000's of people use them on a daily basis with no problems), forget the security deposit you placed on the chicks and pay more for started birds, or forget the chickens all together and lose ALL the money invested...

What has got your fiance so worried about a heat lamp?? Maybe a trip to the local fire dept (for some piece of mind) for your fiance is in order... Maybe they can suggest a safer way to set the lamp up...

 

[WriterofWords]

Might be better for the chicks to get a new fiancee hehehehehhe

 

[justtoni44]

I did not read all the posts so will hope I am not repeating.............

I have my brooder in the house.......
50 chicks in a 4x4 brooder.
I initially ran two 60 watt bulbs 24/7,then noticed they werr all on the far side of box for a few days..
I turned the lights off during the day for a week and am running no heat at all now......
They are three weeks.House temp is about 65 but I have a feeling they are producing heat on thier own.
Just a thought, If your weather is good, you may not have to provide heat for 6 weeks..
Good Luck

 

[tarragon]

Shikens! :

I have already tried talking sense into him. His response is still NO HEAT LAMPS. He says that leaving ANY light on 24 hours for weeks on end WILL start a fire, PERIOD. I tried showing him pics, I even showed him this forum. He still says no. It does not matter what type of bulbs the answer is no...

He also says the ecglow is too expensive. I dont know what to do!

Well, you could try saying that it's "really too bad you have spent all that money on a coop and run that will never get used. Oh well, thanks anyway dear. " I mean, at some point he needs to realize that the whole thing is a waste of time and money if you are not going to provide heat to keep them alive. I'm assuming he built the coop for living things, not dead ones.

My chicks are 7 weeks old, just moved outside last night. We had the basic silver dome cover, clamped above the wire top of the cage. I used one 100w bulb, which was on 24/7, it never burnt out, it never moved, it never dropped.​