Pickin' Up Chicks

How to keep chickens safe, warm, and healthy.

Pickin Up Chicks

It's April and for the past several weeks, we've had 10 chicks under a heat lamp in our barn brooder growing and acclimating gradually to their new world. A typical heat lamp, by the way, takes about 10 amps of continual juice to run 24/7. Chicks need to be kept warm. They need to start at about 90 degrees from birth and the heat should …