Week old chicks heat lamp failed

[Lidea teapot]

My little sultan chicks heat lamp has just blown it's second bulb tonight I have no more and can't get a new lamp till tomorrow. They are in a little broody box in my house and iv just given them a hot water bottle for now but that will cool quickly. Will thay be ok without heat till tomorrow if I keep the my home heating on at 20 degrees Celsius ?

 

[Sweetlilbaby]

Take a lightbulb out of a lamp and put in there. I use 60 to 100 watt bulbs just out of lamps for my chicks heat source. works great!

 

[Lidea teapot]

Iv already looked for one but only have energy saving builds and thay don't heat up like ordinary bulbs. Iv heated a wheat bag in the microwave that should stay warm for a little while and at least that won't get chilly like a hot water bottle when it cools. will thay survive at room temp over night?

 

[Lidea teapot]

Ok if put a thermometer in to see the temp in the brooder it's at 23degrees Celsius can also use my daughters 150w infra red butician light but only in short bursts as its a plastic holder and I'm afraid it may go on fire if left on for much more than the 15 min usage time it recommends.

 

[Lidea teapot]

Ok it's six am iv got the heating on at 25 degrees c and with wheat bags ( you know the things. You put them in the micowave and use them for sore muscles etc ) iv managed to keep the temp in the brooder between 25 and 33 degrees c. Just a few more hours and I can go get new light fittings and bulbs. All will be ok. feeeuwwww

 

[CorlyB]

The first day we got our chicks and settled them into the brooder we had a power outage. My husband was in town and I'm not able to get the generator started, so I was pretty panicky. Then I realized that we had a full water heater, so I filled up several tall, skinny metal cookie cans (Pirouettes...yum!) with hot water, wrapped each in a sheet of paper towel, and set them in the center of the brooder. The chicks all huddled around the cans under a flashlight until my husband got home to turn on their personal sun again.

 

[Lidea teapot]

Thank yous for postin. We all made it through the nite the brooder is working again. I can relax till the next worry thank yous again

 

[Quack and Cheep]

Hi there

I don't know how long it has been off but it is nearly half midnight and I noticed the red light missing from our hallway.

My little silkies are only two days old and I don't have a thing to heat them with! I have no screw light bulbs that fit the lamp and I am worried my little babies will die. Anyone have any ideas please?

I have whacked our central heating up to 24 degrees and popped the cage they are in up against a hot radiator with a towel over the top to keep as much heat in as I can.

The shops don't open for another 8.5 hours, I feel this is going to be a long night :0(

 

[Quack and Cheep]

Just to report, I used a normal lamp in the end until I managed to source a proper heat lamp.

The heat from a normal lamp was just enough for them and I would have kept using it only, the red light is invisible to chickens and I thought it kinder to let them think it is day and night. Even if the red light drives US all mad!!!!

 

[Quack and Cheep]

All the babies made it through and are happy healthy birds now.