Heating Brooder Plate for Chicks Ducklings, Adjustable 3 Levels Temperature Brooder House for Keeping Poultry Warm(Orange, L)

This heater works perfectly and keeps a consistent, comfortable temperature for the chicks. It feels safe, well-made, and is a great alternative to traditional heat lamps. The chicks adjusted quickly and seem much more comfortable. Easy to use, energy efficient, and very reliable. Highly recommended for anyone raising chicks.

So far these (I bought 2) have been amazing! They keep my quail babies happy and healthy. Even the tinest quail find warmth. The feathers on it make the quail feel safe but I also added additional feathers under it when they FIRST hatch. Just to make sure they felt safe. It works like a charm. My older birds still use it and we just lifted it up a bit to allow the taller birds to have room to exist under there. The smaller birds just move further back. Cleaning it is fairly easy. Building it was simple. It hasn't shook, slipped, malfunctioned or had any issues thus far (2 weeks of continuous use). My older birds even like to stand on top of it and peer out of the brooder out to us as if seeing what's up. Underneath the temperature and humidity gauge says it gets to about 95-98 degrees with 30% humidity when i added additional feathers and 60% when it's under the older birds brooder which is lightly lifted and has soil and woodchips for bedding. My rooms normal ambient humidity sits at 50ish. Temperature is at 60-75 depending on time of day. I absolutely recommend this over a heat lamp which can have many potential issues. Namely fire! No real chance of that happening here and as it turns on (a red light announces this) and off as needed to keep a general safe temperature. Add a plant heat mat under it (I don't recommend unless it's FREEZING like a garage in winter or something) and my temperature gauge read 108 degrees under it, with 10% humidity. I did that just to see how hot it would get. The answer was way way too hot.

I hatched 2 eggs after a fox took their momma. I was using a heatlamp but it needed to be so high and it still kept them too warm. The red heat lamps have always felt so dangerous to me. I've had them fall on chicks, melt the edge of their tote and just have general difficulty getting the lamps situated safely. The clamp on the heat lamps are a bad design, imo. But this brooder!? Ah-mazing. It doesn't get too warm and my babies seem to love it. It's super easy to put together and the quality feels like it will last a good long time. I imagine it could hold 10 or more chicks, depending on size. It fits into the bottom of a 50 gallon sterilite tote very well. It easily wipes down and can be sanitized. My chicks seem very comfortable and happy under the brooder. It functions as it should, theres no fuss over temps being too hot or too cool. I no longer worry about burning any buildings down or killing chicks inadvertently with a hot bulb that falls.

This is really easy to put together and feels sturdy. The chicks seem to like the feathers. 15 bantam chickens fit easily, at least so far. It's pretty smooth plastic and should be pretty easy to clean. My only complaint is that the heater does not work as well in colder areas. We keep our house in the upper 60s, but the temp under the heater only got to the mid 80s. We had to move a space heater into the room with the chicks in order to get the temperature into the upper 90s. This heater works really well in warm areas, and for small numbers of chicks. I will probably need to upgrade to a heat lamp when the chicks get bigger.

I have had a hard time finding decent brooder heating. This one is working so far but after reading reviews I decided not to use the feathers. I like that its adjustable in height. Ive only used it with 4 chick's so far and I used it in an enclosed brooder to make it easier to keep the area warm. It was pretty easy and feels safer. Easy to clean thats probably my favorite part

I wanted to like this brooder, but it has some pretty serious negative aspects to the way it's designed 1. The brooder plate gets hot on one side and not the other. It is very easy to accidentally assemble it upside-down. If you do that, the area under will not get hot, only the top will get hot. You can avoid this if you read the manual carefully, but it is very easy to mess this up. If you accidentally install the plate upside-down, the back flap still attaches and everything still will fit together, so you will not notice that it's assembled upside-down. A good design would make the parts NOT fit together upside-down. 2. The height adjustment does not work. There are silicone rubber washers meant to clamp down the height. They do not have enough friction against the plastic, so it is very easy for the height adjustment to "sag" and the plate can fall lower than you adjusted it to. 3. This is the biggest problem if you have button quail: The lowest height adjustment is 4". This is not low enough for button quail. At the 4" minimum height, the temperature at chick level (about 1" tall) is only around 85F. It needs to be at least 95F. You CAN NOT achieve warm enough temperatures for button quail at this height, it would need to be maybe 1.5" off the ground or maybe even lower. 4. There is an on/off switch on the power cord. This is a BAD feature and should not exist, because it is very easy to accidentally bump this switch and turn the brooder off. If you want the brooder off you can just unplug it, there should not be an on/off switch. 5. It doesn't really get hot enough. Even on the hot side of the plate, it only reaches maybe 105F. This may not be hot enough to provide sufficient heat in the area under it. Taking all of these design flaws into consideration, I can't in good conscience give this brooder a good review. It would be very easy to make a mistake even with chickens and leave your chicks out in the cold.

I recently used a Heating Brooder Plate for Chicks with my newest batch of chicks, and it has been an excellent part of my brooder setup. As someone who raises poultry regularly, having a dependable heat source during those first crucial weeks makes all the difference, and this plate provided consistent warmth without the risks that come with traditional heat lamps. The brooder plate was easy to install and delivered steady, gentle heat that allowed my chicks to regulate their body temperature naturally. They clustered beneath it when they were cold and spread out comfortably when they were warm, which made monitoring their comfort much easier. It created a calm, safe environment that helped reduce stress and encouraged healthy activity. I also appreciated that the plate is simple to clean and maintain. The surface feels sturdy and well made, and it fit nicely into my existing brooder without taking up too much space. Overall, the Heating Brooder Plate for Chicks has been a reliable and effective heating solution. It helped my chicks stay warm, healthy, and content, and I would recommend it to other chicken keepers looking for a safe and efficient way to care for young poultry.

This heater works great. It has kept my 3 week old chicks, perfectly warm. I like the ability to change the height and angle of the heat plate. As they’ve aged they have gotten to where they only nap under the very front of the unit. I have it raised to about 1” from the top in the front. One complaint I have is that I can’t tighten the adjustment knobs on the sides enough to keep it secured in place. Is that even possible? When the chicks jump on top of it their weight causes the plate to slide down the guides. **HOWEVER!!!** Beware the feathery front. What I thought would be a comforting addition turned nearly deadly. One of the chicks ended up with a feather wrapped around its neck and the other chicks walking on her. If I hadn’t been the hovering chick mom I am, the baby would have perished. I have since read that this is a frequent occurrence in feathery faux momma hen emulations.