Heat Plates Don't Heat the Brooder: Brooder Setup Mistakes That Kill Chicks
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Heat Plates Don't Heat the Brooder: Brooder Setup Mistakes That Kill Chicks

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 202636 min
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send us an email and be sure to include your address so we can respond! Heat plates don't heat the brooder. They heat the chick, and only if it can touch the plate. If you're losing chicks, that's one of several brooder mistakes we see all the time. Carey is building a new brooder, so we're getting into what actually matters when you raise chicks: why an old-time show breeder swears by solid-top brooders, why 99.9% of the "my chicks are dying" messages we get in winter come down to one thing (the...

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It is not going to heat the space. It's not going to heat the floor. It is not going to make up for sticking them in a 30 degree shed. It literally only heats the chick through touch. Hey, did you get an email today?

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I did, but I sent it to myself. Touche. But everybody else doesn't know that now we have a news email for people who want updates without things. Well, I had a long time ago, I had started putting some news updates on the website and that's a lot more work. And I thought let's just do an email and just get the information

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out there and just put some links if you need more information and of anything that's pertinent going on and it just it's faster for me and it means it's faster for you as the reader. And the one that sent out we're recording on a Monday because you come out on a Monday And so this one starts with an article from Georgia Department of Ag.

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