While this heat bulb certainly seems to do the trick, I need to get a red heat bulb as the color reduces pecking behavior.
Currently in my garage, I am load-testing the brooder to ensure that I can keep an even temperature throughout the night. :)
The chicks have to stay between 90-95 degrees for the first week, and then we drop the brooder temperature 5 degrees every week until they are ready to go outside (about six weeks or so).
The bin is the same one I used to remove cosmoline from the Mosin-Nagant I received for Christmas (it has been thoroughly and completely cleaned)!
This is the chick waterer (left) and feeder (right). Their water will have have vitamins and electrolytes mixed in to help overcome shipping stress, and initial vitamin shortage. The feed will just be standard chick starter feed.
These will be some happy chickens!
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