Companihen
Songster
Me again, my second batch is on day 18 and I can hear tiny cheeps when I'm next to the incubator...
I have a question, has anyone put a heat plate (We have the yellow mama hen one) into an eglu house?
I'm hoping to move my chicks from this hatch outside sooner this time round, and set up an outdoor brooder for them. My idea is to put the eglu on our patio with slabs under and slabs on the flaps on the run part too for protection. I have felt to cover the roof and one side of the run for wind protection too. And I was thinking of putting the chinks in this set up soon and have the mama hen heat plate inside the house part of the eglu. It is the purple eglu go up we have.
Does anyone have ideas or thoughts on how this would work?
Another possible idea is using a rabbit hatch instead of the eglu bur I'm not sure if the mama hen heat plate would fit in that.
In the uk Temps where I am are approx 14 in the day and 8 in the night. But it is nearly April and the temp ranges for the next few weeks could easily vary between 5 degrees c to 20 degrees c. Funny time of year for us
(I will read all this thread again as I know I found it useful last year).
I have a question, has anyone put a heat plate (We have the yellow mama hen one) into an eglu house?
I'm hoping to move my chicks from this hatch outside sooner this time round, and set up an outdoor brooder for them. My idea is to put the eglu on our patio with slabs under and slabs on the flaps on the run part too for protection. I have felt to cover the roof and one side of the run for wind protection too. And I was thinking of putting the chinks in this set up soon and have the mama hen heat plate inside the house part of the eglu. It is the purple eglu go up we have.
Does anyone have ideas or thoughts on how this would work?
Another possible idea is using a rabbit hatch instead of the eglu bur I'm not sure if the mama hen heat plate would fit in that.
In the uk Temps where I am are approx 14 in the day and 8 in the night. But it is nearly April and the temp ranges for the next few weeks could easily vary between 5 degrees c to 20 degrees c. Funny time of year for us
(I will read all this thread again as I know I found it useful last year).
