Comfort Heating Plate for Chicks

Photo by Tracey R. Simmons

Last year, I purchased the Comfort Heating Plate, but never used it because my chicks no longer needed a heat source. I wanted to find something that would be safer than a heat light. (I knew of a house that had burned down because of a heat light. The humans survived, but the baby animals died in the fire, so I have never been fond of the idea of using these heat lamps.)

The Comfort Heating Plate was developed in Holland. It is a safe heating system for chicks and other kinds of birds. I call it an electrical/mechanical hen, because it simulates the heat a mother hen would produce. The chicks are able to get underneath it like they would do with a hen, which then surrounds them with warmth.

Photo By Tracey R. Simmons 2017

The heating plate is easy to use, and has a double safety system. Best of all, it is economical, using very low energy, saving 75% on electrical cost compared to a heat light. (I just received my electricity bill; and I did save!)

The heating plate is easy to use, and has adjustable legs. As the chicks grow, you raise the plate by lowering the legs. The instructions that come with it, explains at what height the plate should be for the chicks, since it is the bottom side of the plate that is warm.

One yellow chick under the Comfort Heating Plate
Photo by Tracey R. Simmons 2017

In addition, you can purchase a clear dome to go over the top of the plate. I highly recommend you get this dome, because within a few days, my chicks were trying to get on top of the heating plate. The dome stopped them.

I am very please with the Comfort Heating Plate. I would suggest to anyone keeping chicks to purchase this as a safer source of heat. It comes in different sizes. I purchased the 30x30cm size, which will work for 20-25 chicks.

(I was not paid anything for rating the Comfort Heating Plate. I just wanted to tell others about it, because of the safety issues I see with the heating lamps, plus the cost savings the Comfort Heating Plate provides.)

Photo by Tracey R. Simmons 2017

I purchased my Comfort Heating Plate from Premier1. Go to:
www.premier1supplies.com      or call 800/282-6631.