[CHICKENS-101] Re: Don't use a regular light for heat!

 

I use both red bulbs and fluorescent lighting. Haven't had any aggression problems.

Cami

--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, Stuart Perkins <perkins.stuart@...> wrote:
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> My coops are filled with the red heat lamps, clear heat lamps and clear
> and soft white regular 100 watt bulbs. Since I am raising chicks all
> winter, I have two clear and one red heat lamp in my brooder area
> (12x5). I have two red 250 watt heat lamps in the west area where some
> of the barely feathered ones are. I only have a 100 watt bulb in the
> middle area which also has newly feathered. I think I'll up the
> wattage to 150 watts. The east pen has a bare 100 watt bulb hanging
> near the water. When it is going to get below 20, I have a 55 gallon
> barrel wood stove to light to keep the water from freezing. It is a
> home built naturally aspirated cross draft long stick gasifier, and can
> burn 8 hours on a load of scrap sticks and pallet wood.
>
>

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