To be honest, back when...prolly near 20 yrs ago, I didn't know ANYONE who brooded in their houses. It was the barn, or the garage, or a broody hen...when I first came on here, I said, much has changed since I used to raise chickens. The ONLY reason they are in my cabin right now, is I don't have a barn, a garage, and the coop wasn't done!!!
I don't think any one way is "the best" way. I just think, as you do, that all the different ways that people brood their chicks is their way of doing it. I also don't see anything wrong with brooding right in the coop! Maybe if I lived in Alaska and got my chicks in January, I would have them in my house, but with the invention of heat lamps, we used to only have regular light bulbs too, I just believe brooding them in their coop is fine! Especially if it is spring time!!! or the middle of summer, like it is now!!! I was never so glad to see my thermometer read the right ambient temp on the counter, so I could turn off the lights and finally sleep!!!!
