@thistlewick I heard you are looking for heating pad brands, sorry I don’t remember the brand of this one but I just went to Walmart and got a good size heating pad. It was just a regular heating pad for humans, not for outdoor or animals. It actually said on the instructions not for use on...
It’s working great! They mostly sit on top and run around the brooder during the day and sleep under at night. Chicks are about a week old now and I’m moving the brooder outside to the coop this weekend!
For ours we used the top of a Guinea pig cage and an old rabbit hutch, you couldn’t get in with them but could sit beside it and watch, to transport we used a laundry basket
Updated picture, she is out and about now, before she was scared to leave the heating pad cave because of bullies but now she seems like she is not getting pecked as much
Chick that hatched today has less fluff on back. Skin showing so other chicks peck.
Another chick that hatched today that is doing fine and fluffy for reference (and cuteness):
We are doing the chicks brooder out in the coop this year with a heating pad cave. Brooder is an old Guinea pig cage with pine shavings.
Here’s the contraption I made.
Heating pad tied to the underside of a bent piece of lobster trap to make the cave, and an old towel on top to finish it off...
Emrys (and most of my other girls) came from tractor supply as a cinnamon queen (Rhode island red x Wyandotte) but she is the only one of them who doesn’t have a straight comb