“I finally purchased a Cozy Coop heater to use with an order of chicks I received on 11/29/17. This it a sturdy, rigid "thing" that is also light weight. It produces a steady, slow, constant heat and I don't need to keep checking it to verify that it is on. I am using the Cozy Coop heater to keep baby chicks warm in a plastic brooder tub. I cut out the middle of the cover and overlaid it with chicken wire and placed the Cozy Coop heater face down on the wire. Since warm air rises, I have it covered with a couple of bath towels to insulate and keep the warm air in. I can touch the surface of the heater comfortably and my babies are loving the cozy warm environment.”
“I have a single chicken (she is very, very aggressive with other chickens) and so doesn't have the benefit of a flock during colder temps. This keeps her small coop nicely warmed and she will either sit on her heated roost or lay in her dust bath hole which she's made next to the heater. I've been using the high setting as nights are down to 9 degrees and she appears to be staying pretty comfortable, even as she's molting, so pretty happy with that.”
“Installed this heater in our coop a few weeks ago.
Our pen is pretty well winter proofed with the coop inside. We run it only at night while the weather is semi-mild, will probably run full time when winter really sets in.
So far, we've only needed the low setting but that is adequate.
I was told as soon as my girls are cold they'll stop laying. So far I'm still getting an egg a day from all 4.”
“So far this heater has worked as expected. We put it in the run part of our little coops that we have wrapped with plastic. It has kept the water dispensers from freezing on the few mornings we have had that it's been down in the 20's (F) so far this year.
These heaters are only 200 watts so don't expect a huge amount of heat out of them. I've been told you don't want to give chickens a lot of heat anyway because they will become dependent on it. You be the judge there.
I have these plugged into TC-3 thermo Cubes that turn the power on when the temperature gets down to 35 degrees and off when the temperature rises to 45 degrees. At 200 watts they pull less than 2 amps so they won't kill your electric bill or cause a danger to wiring.
I have been pleased with our heaters so far. We have 2.”
“My chickens continually knock it over, but then they love to sit on it so it does a great job of keeping some of my less hardy birds warm through the chill. I love this thing.”
