heating pad

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be bringing home 100 chicks to add to my little flock in June! (if you've just come from my other anxiety riddled post, welcome to another lmao) After doing extensive reading I’ve decided to outdoor brood. Originally we built a wild wall to separate the coop...

Does anyone actually use these in their brooders? Are they ok? (Sorry about the bad photo, it's straight off my computer😅)

I need help, I made a homemade incubator from some videos I saw online. But the main heat source is a lightbulb. Every night I turn it off because I don’t want it to overheat or to make the eggs too hot. But, when I wake up in the morning the eggs are about 70 degrees. What can I do to keep the...

i have an incuview. Chicken eggs are to start lockdown today. The hydrometer battery in it just died. Can I change it before locking them down without harm? Well I set the eggs in the incuview on Jan 9th. Also I don’t remember what setting I used for Mama heating pad last year. I think it was...

Hoping to get some thoughts on if I need to do any kind of supplemental heat this week. I live in Indiana and typically my 5 girls are ok in the winter. We have a serious cold snap coming in a couple days with air temps at -15 and wind chills in the -30s. My coop is about 4'W 7'L 4'H and they...

Today I brought home 3 new chicks. An Ameracauna, a White Orpington, and a Cuckoo Maran. They will be 3 weeks on Monday. It's 83.7 degrees in the room. Do I still need to provide additional heat? I have a heating pad, but I didn't put it in yet. Right now they're sleeping side by side...

Hello! Long time lurker but first time posting. I have guinea keets shipping tomorrow and I just got my chicken brooder set up today. I love using the heating pad method and making a ‘cave’ for chicks to crawl under. I successfully raised 15 this spring, they all feathered out at 4 weeks old...

Hey guys! I know this has been covered a whole bunch, but could not find the precise information I was looking for. Finally convinced DH to let me keep some backyard chickens. I have determined 4 would be a good start. The time has come to pick some up at my local feed store, and we’ve got our...

Ok... so last year I tried to incubate an egg from Trader Joe's and failed. Anyway, I decided to try again... I have a heating pad set up in a plastic shoe box with a container of water as a way to incubate the egg. I've read about someone that used a heating pad before but one thing though...

So I have never had quails before and I have an incubator on the way so I ordered some eggs that were supposed to be shipped after the New Year, but they were shipped before and somehow the postal service got them all the way here already and my incubator is still on is way! I believe its going...