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[Inkheart]

Ok my trusted SDWD friends - NEED ADVICE and HELP! My eggs go into lockdown on friday and decided to set up brooder last night- i have a great dane wire cage that i have set a rubbermaid tub inside of . Mainly cause i have a cat in the house and well i figured i could hang the light of the top. Well this will be done in my spare bedroom - house kept generally at 68-70 degrees. So i got a red 250 watt heat bulb and a white 125 w heat bulb. I set the red up first - within 20 minutes the temp on the floor of the "brooder " was 108!!!!!! So next i tried the white light and it only ever got to 90 - tho my one book says the white lights are not accurate by thermometers for some reason? I guess my question is - how high above usually are you all placing your brooder bulbs - and is the fact that this is in a warm house the reason the red shot so high? It was a couple to three feet above floor of brooder- i am panicking a bit as last candled there are little heads in beaks in there!!!!!! Thanks

 

[kathyinmo]

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Just raise the red one a little more, or use the lower wattage white one. Just play around with it. Mine is between 2 - 3 feet above the brooder, but I always use the red lights. Good luck!

 

[crazyhen]

I use a red flood light that is 85 watt. I get them from Lowes. I raise it or lower acc. to the temp needs. My chicks do not ever like the high temps and seek out a lower say, 90 degrees. There should be a place that is cooler and a spot that is warm. I hope this helps some. Gloria Jean

 

[PepsNick]

Gloria Jean, I'm sorry! Feel better soon!

Knox, I have a white 100 watt and at around a foot above the brooder floor it's about 105, and subtracts about 8 degrees every 6 inches that you move it. I am switching to a red bulb, though.


Did anyone look at my page? I just deleted it, on accident. OMG. That took me two hours!!

Anyways, who wants a story from today?

I was just putting the chickens up, and I had put a large tub full of water out in the yard near the coop for them to drink out of. Well I was locking them all up, after their long ranging time. Well then I realized that I needed to rake the coop a little more before I put them up. So I took each one, and set them down out outside the run. Well most of them went behind me, until we got to Pepper, I chucked the poor girl RIGHT into the tub!! OMG, I felt so bad! She was soaked, and surprised that she wasn't drowned!

So I took her in and dried her off, and all was well... I actually dried her with the brooder heat lamp for a while.

Poor baby!

 

[speckledhen]

I have two new pullet chicks. Bought them today as companions to June's 3 week old baby because in a couple days, all the pure Dels will be sold and she'd be left alone till Smoky's baby hatched on March 13, if it does. Now, she has two Speckled Sussex girls, just a week old, for company. We've had two power outages since Smoky's lone egg was found to be developing, after setting about three batches of BBS Orp eggs to get one more Suede son for Ladyhawk, but everyone keep everything crossed for a new Suede baby to hatch.

I wanted bantams, maybe another lav Cochin like Shadow, but Linda had two bins, one of frizzles and one of Silkies. Nope, not going there. Fortunately, there were a few sexed SS pullets left from last week's shipment. If you recall, I lost Nelda recently, so I didn't have anymore SS hens in the flock. Hopefully, these won't die of internal laying like the RIRs, Wyandottes, Buff Orp and Barred Rocks since they are not as common as the others.

Oh, I ran into CrickettB in the feed store today! Knew she lived around here, but had never met her in person.

One of Tom's remaining aunts died today so he'll be going to the viewing on the west side of Atlanta tomorrow. I'm going to bed. So darn tired and stressed.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Sorry to hear about Tom's Aunt. Try to relax and get some rest.

Congrats on your 4 year anniversary!

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks! That's just four years here, on the revived BYC. I was a member for two years before that on the other one.


Oh, we've decided to try to sell our lower lot. We did have both extra lots together, totaling 3.15 acres, but then decided to keep the 1.38 acre one with the 2.22 that the house was originally sold with so there is a buffer for privacy. The lot is 1.77 acres of beautiful rolling wooded land, very private with electricity already at the lot. Prices are so much lower now than they were so this is greatly reduced. Land here, before the economy tanked and the bubble burst, was going for around $20-25K per acre (unless you have multiple acres, then it was slightly lower), but we're asking $26 for the one and three quarter acre lot, which is less than $15K per acre if you do the math. I realize that for some folks in other areas, that sounds high, but this is a big second home market with many fancy log homes, etc. The only real restrictions here are that it must not have a mobile home unless it's a temporary construction trailer for building a house and you can't have pigs, but all other livestock is fine.

At the bottom of the lot is an old site where a building was sitting many decades ago on stacked up stone corners. We lived here and went down there for a couple years before realizing we were looking at an old fallen down foundation. It sits in a flat area with a sort of bowl-shaped outline and we used to call it the campsite till we realized there were four corners of an old small building under the pine straw.

 

[Serrin]

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How cool is that!?!? Denny and I have found a number of those old foundations out west here. They always spark our imagination of early pioneers to our area. Some of the sites are so remote that we wonder how or why anyone would come to live so far from the centers of population back then. But then one look at the view the place must have had at that time, and one begins to realize that the pioneers weren't all that much different than we are today. Each of them must have hungered for the wide open spaces where they could be who they were and didn't have to worry about what the neighbors thought....because there weren't any!!

Cool story Cyn, and if Denny and I were in the market for a piece of land down south in that size range, we'd probably buy yours just for that old foundation!

We got an incredibly good piece of news yesterday, and real quick, I wanted to share it with y'all. Our Annie has received the "Governor's Scholarship Award"!!!!!

This is a four year, full ride scholarship that is awarded to only the very best of kids in foster care guardianships, which Annie is, on account of her parents being mentally challenged. Our sweet little Annie, who has kept her nose to the grindstone since she was in elementary school, and who has maintained a 3.9 GPA throughout middle school and high school, is one of only 50 students who will be receiving this scholarship. There were over 470 applicants for the scholarships this year!

I'm just so proud of her, and as any proud parent would do, yeah! I'm BRAGGING ON HER!! Way to go ANNIE!!!

I'm in total awe of ya kid!!

 

[Inkheart]

OH WOW!

That is so GREAT! Impressive ! Congrats to you both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[PepsNick]

Cyn, as long as the area that you're selling isn't where the chickens range, than that's acceptable.

Good luck selling it!

Amy, congrats!! How exciting! That is great news!!!

I got some more pictures. One sec, I will attempt to upload them, or just copy/paste from another thread that I put them on.