Brooder Days

The brooder is where a hatch is won or lost. For the first few weeks, newly hatched chicks can't regulate their own warmth, and they depend entirely on you to get it right. Too cold and they pile up under the lamp and chill; too hot and they crowd the edges, panting. And the target keeps moving — chicks need it warmest in week one, around 95°F, and that warmth has to step down roughly five degrees every week until they're ready for the outside world. Miss the schedule, or misread the signs, and the cost is chicks. Brooder Days keeps that whole stretch on track. It works around the one thing that matters most in brooding: temperature over time. You set up your brooder — your heat source, its size, how many chicks, and their hatch date — and from then on the app always knows what day your chicks are on and what temperature they should have. It steps the target down week by week automatically, so you're never guessing whether it's time to back the heat off. No mental math, no forgotten reductions, just the right number for today.