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RE: Chickens Day - Raising Day Old Chicks
The reason we don't need more bedding is that the brooder is in our cold room, a heavily insulated room for hanging the meat. It maintains the proper temperature with very little heat input. I am glad I don't need so much bedding for 2 reasons: 1. the brooder elevated legs would have to be much longer and used from the beginning, and 2. I don't have so much to clean out at the end of the brooder time. So I cheat. :))
Sorry so long to respond, bandwidth locked me out. :((
No worries about the long response. I am not on top of all of this myself this weekend, we have a house full of company.
It is wonderful that you are able to cheat that way. I think we need to cheat when possible. It makes life easier, and why shouldn't it be easier in some ways.