Heating Brooder Plate for Chicks Ducklings, Adjustable Brooder House for Keeping Poultry Warm(Yellow)

So far these (I bought 2) have been amazing! They keep my quail babies happy and healthy. Even the tinest quail find warmth. The feathers on it make the quail feel safe but I also added additional feathers under it when they FIRST hatch. Just to make sure they felt safe. It works like a charm. My older birds still use it and we just lifted it up a bit to allow the taller birds to have room to exist under there. The smaller birds just move further back.Cleaning it is fairly easy. Building it was simple. It hasn't shook, slipped, malfunctioned or had any issues thus far (2 weeks of continuous use). My older birds even like to stand on top of it and peer out of the brooder out to us as if seeing what's up.Underneath the temperature and humidity gauge says it gets to about 95-98 degrees with 30% humidity when i added additional feathers and 60% when it's under the older birds brooder which is lightly lifted and has soil and woodchips for bedding. My rooms normal ambient humidity sits at 50ish. Temperature is at 60-75 depending on time of day.I absolutely recommend this over a heat lamp which can have many potential issues. Namely fire! No real chance of that happening here and as it turns on (a red light announces this) and off as needed to keep a general safe temperature. Add a plant heat mat under it (I don't recommend unless it's FREEZING like a garage in winter or something) and my temperature gauge read 108 degrees under it, with 10% humidity. I did that just to see how hot it would get. The answer was way way too hot.

I've raised 5 generation of chickens and this is the first year I'm using a heat source like this and am so happy I tried it out! In the past I always used the ceramic bulbs which worked well but were a pain to get the heat just right. When I set this up I was worried that it wasn't warm enough, but after having them for the past week I can say that it is the perfect temp since the unit is enclosed on 3 sides and the feathers block most drafts from the front. The warm, dark, safe space for the chicks has created some of the most confident and happy chickens to date! They actually come out from their home to say hi when they hear me when in the past the chicks would just run and cower because they were so exposed. This product is well worth getting!!

This is really easy to put together and feels sturdy. The chicks seem to like the feathers. 15 bantam chickens fit easily, at least so far. It's pretty smooth plastic and should be pretty easy to clean.My only complaint is that the heater does not work as well in colder areas. We keep our house in the upper 60s, but the temp under the heater only got to the mid 80s. We had to move a space heater into the room with the chicks in order to get the temperature into the upper 90s.This heater works really well in warm areas, and for small numbers of chicks. I will probably need to upgrade to a heat lamp when the chicks get bigger.

The media could not be loaded. Love it! Best substitute for a Hen! Safe, cute and does exactly what it should! Super easy to assemble, clean and our Lil chicklets love it!! Highly recommend...worth the cost which is really cheaper than a house fire and heartache!Chicklet approved!

We just recently hatched 7 chicks. I ordered this because we didn't want to use a heat lamp in the house. I have to say I'm impressed! It does a good job keeping the chicks warm. These are by far the happiest chicks we've raised. We raised 2 sets of chicks last year using a heat lamp. They were always fussing and chirping loudly. These babies are just the right temperature! They have a light chirp to them as they go about playing and eating hut when under the heat plate they are very content!

The media could not be loaded. I bought a couple of different types of thermometers so I could test the heat quality on this brooder heater. A lot of people were saying it didn’t get hot enough and their chicks were dying. You can clearly look at the photo and see the temperature inside of this thing with it all the way down. You can see in the video where the temperature probe is pointing down. It’s not touching the roof, but I think what people might have been doing. Was they had the roof upside down?. Because the weight of the Velcro is on the roof. It looks like the roof should be texture side down, but after 20 minutes and I touched the unit the texture side underneath was very cool to the touch and the flat part up top was very hot. So I think people were putting the roof part upside down. It shows in the directions the texture side should be facing up, but if you look at the Velcro where the feathers go, you would think the other way around. Because the Velcro was up so high with the roof on correctly, I had to barely attach the feathers so that they would hang down low enough. Which was just fine. This is definitely going to keep my babies warm enough.!! as I am writing this. The temperature is already showing 110! So I will need to raise it up even for the newborn chicks! Great purchase!

Warmer functions as it should. The one thing that has been a reoccurring issue for us: the on/off light. It would be much more effective if the light stayed on when it’s on, and off when it’s off- making it easy to glance over and make sure everyone is warm, toasty, and functional. The switch being on the cord, and the cord running along the floor of our bathroom into the brooder, made it very easy for someone to bump into the cord and accidentally switch the warmer off. The switch is loose and easily moved. We had one chick die overnight because of this. I checked the warmer before bed, and it felt warm- but had been switched off, and rapidly cooled overnight.Advice if you buy this as is: I would label the switch “on” and “off” as soon as you set it up. That would assure a foolproof way to check if it’s running. Do not rely on the light.