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RE: Chickens Day - Raising Day Old Chicks
Wonderful post. I love the pictures of new baby chicks. Fabulous information.
It is amazing how in different areas people do things a bit different. We live in Northern Alberta Canada and due to the cold we need more bedding for our chicks. On day one the bedding needs to be at least 6 inches deep for them to help keep the warmth in.
I think it is fantastic that you don't need as much bedding.
Thank you for sharing!
The reason we don't need more bedding is that the brooder is in our cold room, a heavily insulated room for hanging the meat. It maintains the proper temperature with very little heat input. I am glad I don't need so much bedding for 2 reasons: 1. the brooder elevated legs would have to be much longer and used from the beginning, and 2. I don't have so much to clean out at the end of the brooder time. So I cheat. :))
Sorry so long to respond, bandwidth locked me out. :((
No worries about the long response. I am not on top of all of this myself this weekend, we have a house full of company.
It is wonderful that you are able to cheat that way. I think we need to cheat when possible. It makes life easier, and why shouldn't it be easier in some ways.