Splitting Chick Order With Friends

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
 

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