Brooding baby chicks in cold weather — how low can you go? As it turns out, cold-weather brooding can go low indeed. Back in the 1950s, when the electric companies were promoting electric brooding as ...

As soon as the weather begins to warm, chickens across the world begin to think of hatching eggs and raising baby chicks. But they're not the only ones. Spring also prompts humans to start thinking ...

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Brooding is the provision of artificial heat to help chicks regulate their temperature. The heat can be provided using charcoal jikos, gas or electric brooders. The brooder area should be ready at ...

LAST season, following the reports that rearing under the bright emitter type of ‘infra-red’ lamp caused an increased incidence in chicks of a crooked-toe deformity, we reared several hundred chicks ...