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 under the brooder heating plate was 79°. It seems to me that I need to wait for warmer weather before I get chicks unless something is different with heating plates than with a heat lamp. Since I have no experience with this, can I get some wisdom or advice from someone who knows how brooder heating plates work and the temperature that should be under it? Thank you.