>>>It would be interesting to test the heat given out at night, would it be enough to power a small brooder for chicks and poultry?<<<
The LED lights produce very little heat. They are very efficient in producing light - without wasted energy for heat.
When the chips are down, and you really need to raise some chicks, the ‘Old Fashioned’ way is still the best... Let that broody hen do the work. She is better at it than we will ever be... (Just give her the opportunity and the space where she can do it without other chickens bothering her)
When the chips are down, and you really need to raise some chicks, the ‘Old Fashioned’ way is still the best... Let that broody hen do the work. She is better at it than we will ever be... (Just give her the opportunity and the space where she can do it without other chickens bothering her)<<<
Agree, but never could resist using the incubator, and my banty hens were always so surprised to find a duck or goose in the eggs they had set on for a month.
Mary kept a smooth egg shaped rock in the nests of the hens she wanted to go broody, and in the old days there were glass eggs used.
Talk about brainwashing, that would fit tempting a hen to have babies by giving her a rock to sit on.
Or is that a miracle? She sits on a rock and you get baby chicks.