heat bulbs

Hello all, I've got 7 new chicks that I moved to their brooder a couple hours ago. After a few minutes, they were all clustered in one corner. I thought it was because the lamp I have was too hot for them, so I raised it a little bit. This continued a few times and now they are still pretty...

Hi there, I have 5 Rouen ducklings, a little over a week old. I have been gradually adjusting the heat lamp to manage the temperature but read that between 7-14 days to switch to another heat source so the ducklings can get used to lower light. I found the Brinsea EcoGlow which came highly...

Hi all, I live in a Chicago suburb. My chickens have a nice coop but no heat for winter. Our winters can get to -20. At what temperature should I turn a heat lamp on for the coop? Thank you!

I am so tired. I feel like I check on these chickies none stop. These are our first little babies. Here is my setup. I'm concerned because even though the temperature is always between 85 and 95 (sometimes day and night adjust it) they seem to be away from the light. I know they say that's if...

Hi there- new chicky mama. I have 3 BR about 19wks now. I am hope to encourage egg production-nada so far-I am thinking of putting in a light-we only get about 7 hrs daylight plus their coop and run are in an 10x12 outfitters tent so no natural light. Is there a difference between the heat...

So I live in upstate NY and we get cold nights in the winter. Like below 0. So I always heat the coop on cold nights. Even then our bantam roster with huge wattles and a comb gets purple on top. I put Vaseline on sometimes to protect him. He hates it. Anyway.... I’m insulting it his fall but I...

Hey! So I'm about to be a parent of a few day old Rhode Island White chicks and a Pekin duck. I just wanted to hop on here and ask for some basic advice. I know the chicks should have a heat lamp of around 99-100 degrees the first few days, so what is the best lamp y'all have used? And what...

Hi all! I want to start off by saying this is my first time raising chicks in over 10 years, and I’m pretty rusty. The chicks seem to be doing pretty good, sleeping a lot, fluffing bedding, and chirping. No water drinking yet, but they have investigated it and been shown. There’s six bantam...

One of my baby quails went blind! He cant open his eyes i went threw so much trouble to get his eyes to open... At this point ive had enough i turned the light bulb off and the quails just peeped the loudest peeps they can ever do... And kinda sleeped in one pile one on top of eachother my heart...

For all the wrong reasons I am raising 4 chicks in the fall. I want to move them out to a coop in a few weeks, but I will need to heat it for them. Has anyone used one of these lights for heating a coop? How did it work out? I'm going to use my smallest coop and don't think I will be able to...

Hey everyone! My husband is a plumber and we are building a new chicken coop. He does hydronic heat for a lot of houses and ends up with small leftover loops that you can’t do much with so he thought he would set up hydronic heat in the chicken coop In the center (human area) of the coop I...

I’m having trouble with heating the brooder effectively and meeting the needs of my diverse flock. I started with a 250 watt red bulb supplied by the feed store, but after researching online, bought a heat plate big enough for 15 chicks and a ceramic reptile heat bulb. My goal was to not have...

Hello, Does an infrared bulb (250W) keep the chickens from sleeping? I hate to use it, but we have had such cold nights here in Michigan that one hen got her comb frozen. I happened to look into the coop after dark while the the light on last night and all of the chickens were awake! I...

People always ask about heat lamps the do's and the don'ts. I have not seen many pictures on how people secure their heat lamps. Here is the way I use my heat lamp and feel it to be a very secure setup. For starters never use the clamp as your sole/primary means of holding the lamp in place. One...

Hi everyone, I'm planning to raise about 15 coturnix quail chicks (they should be less than one week old when I get them) and have some specific questions. Please help if you have any ideas/suggestions. 1. I'm planning to use my old 29 gallon fish tank as their contemporary "coop" before...

Hi experts!!! Right now I am on week 2 for my Indian runner ducklings! They’re so cute but I feel are getting too hot sometimes with the heat bulb 175Watts I have for them. I’m thinking of either switching to a heat bulb that’s 125watts or 150watts but honestly, the red lighting is blinding and...

Hi everyone, my family and I just got 10 baby chicks yesterday. We are so excited! We have a brooder box all set up with water, food and a heat lamp and they all seem really happy and content. Although, my question is, we live in California and the temp outside is around 95 degrees. I have the...

Please forgive me for bring this up again. We are all aware that the heat lamps are a fire hazard, however this needs to be reenforced. About 2 weeks ago a home here in Colorado Springs was burned and now uninhabitable. I drive past this house every day coming home from work. Yesterday, the...

Hello everyone. My husband and I bought our first baby chickens yesterday. Each are one to seven days old. One is a Rhode Island red, one is a Buffed Oprington, one is a Barred Rock, and the other is a Black Australorp. The heat bulb we are using is a 125 watt. We read that leaving this bulb in...