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I have always used the kind of heat lamp that is a metal reflector with a big red bulb (250 watts). Or a few times, I have used a smaller-wattage incandescent bulb in the same reflector. I have used many different brooder setups, but they always have the heat at one corner or one end, with...

If the chicks have no choice of temperature with a heat lamp, I would say it is being used wrong. There should always be plenty of space for them to get away from the heat. Maybe that is part of the difference in what I have seen as compared with what some other people see: a big brooder with a...

Do you have personal experience with heat lamps? I have used heat lamps many times, and some of what you say is not what I have experienced. The chicks DO mostly sleep at night. It doesn't seem to matter whether they are in an outdoor coop, in a garage, or in a human house: when the other...

Some hatcheries recommend one, some recommend the other. Some people raise chicks just fine with a heat plate, some do fine with a heat lamp, and some try one method and switch to the other. For shipped chicks, they can arrive cold, hungry, and thirsty all at once. It is important for them to...