Last year, chicken coop fires cost Kitsap property owners over $600,000 in damages. Fires can happen when heat lamps aren’t properly installed, but the Kitsap County Fire Marshal’s Office hopes to ...

Amy Gates uses a heat lamp to keep her northside Longmont backyard chicken coop warm when nighttime temperatures drop below 10 degrees. The heat lamp’s on a timer and in a corner of the coop where the ...

Follow these plans from 1977 to build a DIY outdoor chicken brooder. Start your chicks outside and foraging safely to keep your own pasture-raised chicks. Right now — while the ground is covered with ...

Watch these three-day-old chicks as they explore their brooder, featuring divided sections with various heat lamps, feeders, and waterers. Get an up-close look at their lively behaviors, from pecking ...