I am very excited!  The new baby chicks come today!  I have their nursery ready and waiting.  Nurseries for baby birds are called ‘brooders’. 

Brooders need to be sanitary, water-proof and draft proof and easy to clean. The heat lamp needs to be red, to cut down on the chicks from pecking on each other.

A thermometer is placed in the brooder, under the lamp, to check for heat-95degrees the first week, and then reduced by 5 degrees per week after that.