Install Heat Lamp for Warmth

Warmness so you need to have a good warm and clean environment for your baby chicks you don't need all these hippie recipes of apple cider vinegar and all this and if you guys use that stuff let me know let me know what you do we don't use that we just use good clean fresh water and good clean fresh food we use chick starter and we're just using regular old chick starter that you can pick up at your local farm store or you can go to an organic feed store and buy your chick starter we use little crumbles and we use 20% chick starter for these birds so zip ties are your friend here guys if you don't know what a zip tie is and you're new to everything related to farming and handyman type stuff this is a zip tie I'll post links to all this stuff down the video description in case you guys are wondering this is a standard fluorescent light bulb it's so warm out right now that the garage is somewhere around 95° and that's the temperature you want your birds for the first couple days so anywhere from 95 to 98° even down to 85 would be okay now as you see zip ties are your friend and I'll show you why they're your friend here in just a second we have a thing called an Irwin Quick Grip and I'll show you that I think I have it right here this is a quick gripper that we use on the side of our stock tank to hang things from so we'll hang our light from here and we can adjust the height of the light to the warmth of the birds in other words if the light is shining down and all the birds are bunched up around the light it means they're too cold so we need to bring the light down a little closer to them and it's normal for the first probably two or 3 hours for them to all huddle under the light and then they'll start exploring and warming up a little bit now we have a fluorescent bulb in this again because it's so warm in here but you can get a standard heat lamp a red heat lamp or a white heat lamp will do just fine it's a a 250 W heat lamp bulb understand that you have chicks dust and dry sawdust and a heat Source what does that equal that equals a fire hazard so understand this is a major fire hazard and you really have to pay attention to what you're doing so you don't accidentally burn your barn down or burn your house down so pay attention what you're doing and put that guard that's supposed to be in place on your lamp in there you can pick this up at your local Farm Store Tractor Supply wherever you like so this is a quick grip and this is how it goes on we go…