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- Mar 27, 2014
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Just a big. Cardboard box. Pictures attached, I have the over head tan going now in the center of the room which is right over the end of the brooder opposite the plate. I have raised the front legs even more and the chicks are now going under it. A fee prep their heads out the side. I have 5 chicks that were the most critical in a large plastic tub and my old verses brooder, they are going under it. It’s been 4 hrs and everyone I revived had not slipped back. Going in every hr and using the syringe and putting a few drops of water yolk and bit of molassses slurry at the side edge of beak and they drinkWhen you have a room with an ambient temp of 83 degrees - and the brooder probably being eve warmer than that assuming it is enclosed -I think it is going be hard managing the temp in the brooder given the little bit of wiggle room you have between the preferred temp for their age and the ambient temp.
I think you should start with a thermometer on the bedding both in the unheated areas, and under the plate. See what you are actually working with.