If you put something light, like feathers, and they move around, its drafty. I wouldn't place it too close to where a vent is, or a window you might want to open any time soon.
Of course, chicks are pretty hardy in general. Mine are outside with a heating pad and its in the 20s at night, and...
I built a brooder coop on the underside of my first coop (the second coop farthest from the camera is my new coop I just set up a few months back). It is about 2 1/2 x 6 and I partition it off at first to be about 4 square feet until I am sure they can make their way back to the coop. I hatched...
Here is how I started with my 30 keets two weeks ago. It's an XL wire dog crate with cardboard around the edges. I used puppy pads for the first week then switched to pine shavings.
This past weekend I decided they were looking too cramped though so on Sunday I put together this...