Are Heat Lamps THAT Dangerous??!?
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2024
- I have seen recently on the internet where people are posting horror stories about fires and dead chickens because of heat lamps. Are they safe? Are there any other options? Will you absolutely kill everything and everyone if you use a heat lamp? We will go over the facts and fallacies of heat lamps and maybe give you some tips. Don't live in fear people! You can do it!
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I have both and I like them in different applications. Inside my house, I prefer the heat pad although I have used both. Last year we raised chicks in our camper in early spring and the heat lamp was way more effective. I never use them in the coop though. We haven’t ever needed to. We built our chicken coop on a trailer bed and arched cattle panels over it, then wrapped it in chicken wire. We had a tarp on the very top to keep it from getting too hot in the summer and protect them from the rain, but leave the sides open for breeze. In the winter we cover it with cheap clear plastic and it has a greenhouse effect on the coop and gives the chickens lots of extra light in the winter. It’s worked great! Our chickens were laying eggs all through winter, and the water bowls wouldn’t even freeze inside the coop until it was down at 15°F. Bonus…we can move them close to the house in winter, and rotate them behind the goats the rest of the year bcuz it’s on a trailer bed.
I'm a heat lamp guy. Never had any issues. I do make extra effort to make sure that they're not going to fall
You guys are fab...you do make me laugh...thankyou for being 🌟
Y'all are one of my favorite disasters . . . 😜🤣
Love you all mayne - you are putting together some entertaining AND informational videos!
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Thank you! Love you to my friend!
I've always used a headlamp. I think the other thing is pretty cool, but expensive.
After using bulbs for years, we switched to the heat plates from Premier. The chickens go under them like they do a hen. Because they have an internal thermostat, the energy savings paid for them in the first year.
Good info! Thank you
My local feed store burned down because chicks jumped up in the broader hitting the heat lamp.
Hope all is well!
This is our first year with chickens, so we're brooding in the coop (it's basically a shed... it should be able to maintain a good temperature). There isn't a great place to confidently hang a heat lamp, so I went with one of those heating plates on stilts. The chicks should be shipping tomorrow, there's no turning back!
Wahoo!! Thats awesome. If you want to make it secure you can wire it to something as opposed to just using the clips they come with.
But the shed should be fine!
I use heat lamps also. They are way more affordable for me than the other options.
had a heat lamp bulb explode, shattered glass everywhere! luckily I was there, and scooped up my chicks before they tried to ingest the glass. I have an adjustable brooder/coop plate now. I love it.
Yikes! Glad you got to them in time!
producers pride is the brand I got. lots of options for hanging. two temp settings and good warranty.@@FlannelFarms
i always get a laugh out of your vids. goood stuff, keep on posting please!!
Thank you my friend! That means a lot to me :)
I use heat lamps I usually run a wire around the hanger and tape the cord so if something fails it should still be suspended by the tape
I use the heat lamp with a thermostat... cuts off automatically to preset temps thus preventing combustion temps from occurring.
Excellent solution
Two years ago in a homestead group I’m in on fb a women posted about this. Her brooder was against the outside wall of her home. That heat lamp did in fact fall into the brooder and set their entire house on fire. She showed pictures. She was really in grief over such a dumb thing she did by having that. The house was almost a total loss, her family got out fine, they were asleep at night. Premiere one sells ones that are much safer, much more expensive, but that’s what I use. It does happen and I would never want to be at fault for something that could cost at minimum loss of property, my husband has some things he maybe wouldn’t like turned to ash.
Agreed, it can happen, so can dryer fires, cooking fires, bad wiring etc.
It could happen, but if people are careful it shouldn't.
Chainsaw?!! 😂
I use a regular human heating pad.
Great idea!
The only ones I can find anymore have timers to shut off in case someone falls asleep. But it shouldn't be too difficult to just wire in a switch, it's just a bit of trouble if the microcontroller (why does everything need a computer in it!) runs the thermostat so it might need a separate temperature controller. Maybe thrift stores or Goodwill and look for one without the automatic shut-off?
I've utilized them before, I'm actually planning on putting one in our bathroom for next winter. It turns out that the prettier type and and littles don't like getting out of the warn shower or bath when the room is less than 75°F.
My favorite thing to keep the chicks at an optimum temperature and humidity is........a chicken. But you don't always have that option so, for my last brooder, I just had a regular lightbulb, a thermal cutout (like a thermostat but has to be manually reset) and a cheap temperature controller. I set a baffle so they also had somewhere dark and a timer so that it would turn off for 30 minutes twice a day. Worked for us and I had all the parts at hand.
I'm other chicken news, just had a neighbor call today and ask if the Jen and 13 chicks (still with egg tooth) were mine. I guess one that I thought we had lost to predation was just busy the last three weeks.
Hey that is great! More chickens is always better!
We use them in our pump house when temps get nasty.
@@FlannelFarms Chickens? I guess chickens could keep the pipes from freesing, but it seems a bit odd.
I've used a heat lamp since I started with chickens over 20 years ago. Never had a problem and was always really careful about it because accidents happen. Having a former volunteer firefighter as a spouse, and a Father-in-law who had been a career firefighter for a major metro area, basic safety was always a thing.
This year, shopping in our local feed store right after our very first trial with an incubator, spouse asked if I'd ever thought about a brooder plate. Sure! So, the chicks love it and I was able to put the IV pole we use as a stand for the heat lamp in the shed.
I'll use the heat lamp until they stop making replacement bulbs, but the brooder plate works well, too.
Congrats on the new chicks! That's great news, @matthewellisor5835!
Lol, no silly, we use the heat lamps on the pump house, but now that you mention chickens in there...... hmmmm
@@FlannelFarms Put enough of them in the pump house and it *would raise the temperature ... free heat?
@@goldengryphonThanks! The kids had been away a few days and were thrilled to see little heads peeking out from momma hen this evening. @FlannelFarms too LOL! I dare you to try it. How many BTU/hr/chicken? Okay, houses with many thousands of birds must take that into account, let me hit a search. brb
Alright, looks like the accepted rule of thumb is ~70 BTU/hr/lb of chicken but that's averaged over a day.
Who's up for building a chicken calorimeter to test, at backyard to homestead numbers and just when they're resting or sleeping? Might also need to cover night poo decomposition alone and over various substrates. I bet it would make for a great video series!
In. Zone 10 B I've got the opposite problem. How to keep my girls cool and happy?
Hmm, shade, draft, and maybe one of those misting fans the sports teams use on the sidelines lol.
Zone 9A here. We get enough cool during certain seasons that it's not too bad. Summers are hard, and I haven't tried to incubate during the summer, but I have brooded chicks during August heat. It seems intuitive and the chicks enjoyed not needing the heat lamp once they had feathers and could regulate their own temperature. The heat lamo was only out for the first week before it got packed away again.
I have to admit that I used a heat lamp and it got knocked down by a guinea into the brooder bedding and filled the whole barn with smoke. We opened the barn that morning and got in there to pull the plug on the light and thank God it didn't start a fire! Since then I have been using flat plate brooder heaters just because that scared me so bad. I had never had that happen in the 12 years before when I used brooder lights. It would have been terrible if our barn had burnt down with all our beloved animals inside. I must have not secured it well enough. I had never had a bird knock the light down inside of the brooder. None of the birds died thank God. It must have just started to smoke. I had pine shavings down in the brooder and the water was at the other end of the brooder. The last two years I've only used the plate heater warmers. They are so much more expensive to buy but I'm less worried that I will start a fire. I didn't have the heat shield over the bulb. I am now waiting until later in the Spring to get new chicks. Thanks for this video Flannel Farms family!
Sometimes the peace of mind is worth the extra expense.
Loving the edits!😂
Haha! It's been a long time since I've seen that meme on the thumbnail.
I was hoping someone would get it!
We currently have a heat lamp
over our 4 days old chicks, in our dinning room lol
I love it. We've done kitchen, dining room, foyer, utility room, I think living room once lol.
Got it get it done, right?! lol
Our brooder is on the lowest shelf of a wire rack, seeds starts are above 🤣
@anetaj1790 thats awesome! Great double use!
In your dining room hahaha! At one point I had ducks and dogs and two new kittens in my living room...🙄🤣
Blessings to all your efforts!
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That’s too funny! ☺️
We moved to Ohio last year, we went with a property with 5 acres and a small house. Small house was a mistake 🤣
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In some ways, we are all whackos on the internet.
We use the Producer's Pride brooder/heater for all our chicks. They work really great.
Hahahaha, true that my friend!