Talk:Raising Chickens/Chicks

would like some idea about light. One book gave specific amounts of light each day for chicks but how do you do this when you use a heat lamp as the heat source?

Well I can offer some advice. When I use a heat lamp I am trying to keep the Temperature at around 90 deg. F shield this with foil or a pie pan. Use an incandescent light on a timer available from most hardware stores set it at standard days or around 10 to 12 hour intervals. But I will tell you that I have also had good luck just leaving the light on day and night for the first week. Chicks sleep when they want to. So you can be very scientific and use shields and timers or just caveman it and leave the heat lamp on. I always use heat at one end of the enclosure. This allows space for the chicks to escape the heat if need be.