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You have ideal brooding temps. The chicks won't need to struggle to maintain body heat. Install the heating pad cave and set it to the second highest heat setting for the first week. Then don't be surprise if the chicks use the heat only at night and very little during the day.

No. One or the other, not both. You are not heating the brooder. You are providing a heat source for the chicks to restore lost body heat that isn't being replaced by food calories alone. Ambient temperature plays a big role. If someone is raising chicks in the tropics or south Texas, chicks...