Splitting Chick Order With Friends

[Naerwyn]

How exciting! What kind of chicks are you expecting in the order, and which are yours?
Welcome to BYC!!
I'm happy to follow your chicken journey!

 

[Folly's place]

Many hatcheries recommend that the chicks go under a heat lamp for the first couple of days, not only a brooder plate. I've found this to be best advice, and lost chicks when we tried only the brooder plate when they arrived.
After that bad experience, we have a heat lamp, floor temp about 95F, at one end of our brooder ( a 100 gallon stock tank) and the heat plate goes in there in a couple of days, when the chicks are stronger, and eating and drinking well.
Mary