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Heating Pad Mama Hen

Posted in Family, and Homesteading

I’ve taken a different approach to taking care of our baby chicks as I quickly realized that I didn’t like the traditional method of care. We started the first 6 chicks in a more traditional brooding box with heat lamp, but I just didn’t like the heat lamp. It was on 24/7. The chicks never really seemed to settle down. (I know I would have a hard time sleeping well if a heat light was on me 24/7.) The following week, when we brought the next 6 chicks home, we had just finished up the coop. We decided that we…