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I really appreciate your advice. This time around I purchased a heat bulb and a clip on heat lamp. I am also going to keep their little nest cave thing going with a heating pad just in case the heat lamp isn't warm enough - if the chicks avoid the heated cave for the first night, I'll remove it...

Thank you aart. I lost my first batch of chicks - I had made a little brooder type thing for them with a heating pad and a shoe box - putting the heating pad over the top of the shoe box, and the shoe box sides were cut out, so the chicks could go under it - sadly they wouldn't go under it, even...

Question - do you want your chicks peeping softly, as opposed to peeping loudly, or not peeping at all?

I agree, your hubby did a great job!

I'm curious - why is the coop tied down to the garbage can and donning a tarp? It looks good though, but the side door looks to me like you'd have to be hunched over to enter it.

GOP - how many chicks to you brood in the fridge system - and do you keep them outside and if so, in what type of weather/temps?

I loved watching that, especially seeing how seriously bad arse those chicken farmers were using all manual tools! Very nice and accessible brooder on a budget.

That fridge brooder idea is probably the most innovative I've seen yet.

You are a wealth of knowledge, thank you so much! Outside temps here are very mild - so I don't think it will be that drastic for them going from an air conditioned house to their coop in mid-80 degree weather in March or so ... but thank you so much for this - I may have ended up keeping them...

I read the baby chicks need to be kept around 95 degrees for around their first week - and I won't be able to do that without some sort of heat source, but I don't even have any chicks yet, nor a coop, so I'm just gathering information. At the present time, I am hoping to acquire 4 hen chicks -...

Thank you so much aart! That will make brooding the chicks we eventually get far easier - as I was going to put them in a large dog crate in the living room - protects them from all sides from the cats - we have two cats and I can't expect them to leave, delicious little baby chicks alone. I may...

Question - I see most folk use a lighted heater - I was wondering if a heating pad would be suitable - I live in Florida and our house stays around 75 degrees year round - using a heating pad would be far easier but I was wondering if the lighted heater was a duel purpose. Facts - I do not yet...