Yes or No. 250 red watt heat lamp.

[al6517]

To be honest from what I see I wouldn't even put a light in there, maybe a slight layer of straw and just bungy strap a tarp over it at night and in no time you will be set.

AL

 

[spankyleatherlips]

 

[briteday]

I just put my flock of 3 week old chicks (32 delawares and RSL) in the coop yesterday. They are in a brooder protected from the current flock, but in the same coop 8 x 10. The days have been in the 40' - 50's. Last night the lows were down near 30. I have a red floodlight in one corner and plenty of draft guards around the brooder. The chicks seemed fairly comfortable all night. I can check on them via a remote cam system (Harbor Freight $30, easy enough for even me to rig up to a tv in my office). The chicks were moving around, not all piled up...so I figured they weren't cold. I also have a remote temp sensor (Walmart $10) that said it got down to about 55 degrees under their lighted area last night. But they all seemed perfectly happy and are definitely enjoying the increased space and freedom from the indoor brooder. Previously they had been in a brooder (rabbit cage) in my office and I had been reducing the temps at night until they were down to about 60 degrees (and I was turning off the red lamp before bedtime) and around 70 degrees during the day.

So, although I was really worried because I had anticipated warmer weather by now according to our seasonal averages, they did just fine. It was really sunny today so the remote thermometer was indicating a temp in the brooder of about 90 degrees at 1PM. So I went out and opened up one of the people doors so they could get some fresh air and sunshine, yet left the draft guards in place since there was a bit of wind.