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

This heater works perfectly and keeps a consistent, comfortable temperature for the chicks. It feels safe, well-made, and is a great alternative to traditional heat lamps. The chicks adjusted quickly and seem much more comfortable. Easy to use, energy efficient, and very reliable. Highly recommended for anyone raising chicks.

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 hatched 2 eggs after a fox took their momma. I was using a heatlamp but it needed to be so high and it still kept them too warm. The red heat lamps have always felt so dangerous to me. I've had them fall on chicks, melt the edge of their tote and just have general difficulty getting the lamps situated safely. The clamp on the heat lamps are a bad design, imo. But this brooder!? Ah-mazing. It doesn't get too warm and my babies seem to love it. It's super easy to put together and the quality feels like it will last a good long time. I imagine it could hold 10 or more chicks, depending on size. It fits into the bottom of a 50 gallon sterilite tote very well. It easily wipes down and can be sanitized. My chicks seem very comfortable and happy under the brooder. It functions as it should, theres no fuss over temps being too hot or too cool. I no longer worry about burning any buildings down or killing chicks inadvertently with a hot bulb that falls.

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.

This worked great for keeping my baby ducks warm while eliminating the worry of a heat lamp starting a fire. It’s also adjustable as they grow.

This was bought on a whim on Saturday and arrived the next day Easter Sunday. I had been planning and preparing for chicks for a while, but I failed to test out my heat lamp, needless to say I felt is was too much heat. I was also worried about a fire hazard when I was at work. I came to amazon to see what I could get quickly and at a reasonable price, and found this one. The baby chicks seem to love it. I can feel the heat coming off of it myself, but it feels like a safe heat and temp compared to a heat lamp. It was easy to put together. Seems to be pretty great quality, and functions as it should and keeps the chicks warm.