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Chicks & Brooding
Chick season brings the same decisions every spring: how to heat the brooder, how warm, and for how long. Everything we publish on brooding — the heat plate vs heat lamp decision, the fire mechanism, the week-by-week temperature schedule — collects on this page.
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Heat Plate vs Heat Lamp for Chicks: The Brooder Decision, With the Electricity Math
Heat plates and heat lamps compared on the fire mechanism, the temperature schedule chicks actually need, and a six-week electricity cost most brooder comparisons skip.