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    Temperature Under Brooder Plate

    Thank you, all, for your replies.
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    Temperature Under Brooder Plate

    My concern is that it’s just too cold to have chicks yet, since the ambient temperature under the brooder heating plate gets down to 79°, it’s probably too cold for the chicks to be out from under it, and they wouldn’t leave it for food or water, and it might not be sufficiently warm underneath.
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    Temperature Under Brooder Plate

    I don’t have chicks yet, but I put an old stock tank in the garage with a brooder plate and placed an electronic thermometer under it. I’ve read that chicks need to start at temperatures in the 90s and reduce by 5° each week. But these articles always spoke about a heat lamp. The temperature...
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    Hello from Oklahoma

    I plan to get chickens for the first time and signed up here to have a place to ask questions. I live in Oklahoma, and summer temperatures can get over 100°, and winters can have have cold streaks of below freezing weather for a week or two. At the moment, I’m turning the lean-to on the shed...
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