What do you use to record temp?

[Missys Chicken Ranch]

Hey Ya'll!
I am curious, what type of temperature guage/thermometer do you use in your brooders?

Thanks!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Whatever the 4 dollar one at tsc is. That and usually chick behavior since it gets buried in like an hour

 

[Missys Chicken Ranch]

Whatever the 4 dollar one at tsc is. That and usually chick behavior since it gets buried in like an hour

Oh, I didn't know they had them at TSC. I will check it out.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Whatever the 4 dollar one at tsc is. That and usually chick behavior since it gets buried in like an hour

Ya I just watch the chicks and the forecast.

 

[Ridgerunner]

For someone starting out a thermometer can be a confidence booster. Nothing wrong with using one. But by your second or third brood you'll probably just watch the chicks.

When you are there look at all the thermometers on the shelf. See how they are reading. I've seen 8 degrees F difference in the readings high to low with different thermometers on the same shelf. That's how accurate they can be. Try to get one somewhere in the middle or at least around where the majority are. It's more likely to read more close to the correct temperature.

Obviously that kind of thermometer is no good for an incubator, for incubation you need accuracy and precision. That is close enough for a brooder, you have a lot bigger tolerance for what works.

 

[RooStar Chicken Gang]

I think its better to let the mother hen do it. I just let them do it, and the chicks get so warm under them, its surprising.

 

[3KillerBs]

Try to get one somewhere in the middle or at least around where the majority are. It's more likely to read more close to the correct temperature.

*nods*

That's what I did. It gave me two different thermometers purchased at two different stores several months apart that read within half a degree of each other.