Kschloesser
Hatching
- May 28, 2020
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Question: I need to move the chicks out. They are 3 1/2 weeks old, so we modified a large dog house and attached a 5 x 3 hardware cloth run. I made a modified mamma chicken (as seen on other posts). I checked with a thermometer and it is 80 degrees under this set up. They spent most of the day in the dog house. I went out last night after dark, and all the chickens were in the run and I had to scoop them up and bring them in and put them under the light again. My husband thinks that they were outside because they know that there is warmth where they see light. The "coop" is too short to hang the brood light. Can I hang a regular light bulb to put off some heat? Some posts say yes, others say it doesn't work. (My husband is working on the "Taj Mahal" pen but it isn't ready yet.) Any ideas