heat lamps with new incandescent regulations

[eross230]

I am wondering if heat lamps will be available when we can no longer use incandescent bulbs. I don't heat my hen house, but I keep a lamp over the water to keep it from freezing during extremely cold weather.

[Cyngbaeld]

Why not stock up on them now?

[springvalley]

Originally Posted by Cyngbaeld

Why not stock up on them now?

just what I was thinking, might be a good idea. > Marc

[eross230]

I was going to do that today when I went into town, but wherever I went (Home Depot and Ace) they didn't have the cheap $2.99 ones. I'll keep looking and stock up.

[J.T.M.]

I use the base heaters with the built in thermostat ,but I wonder about this also .Im winter lambing this year .....mmmmmmmmmm I better stock up also.

[Danaus29]

Supposedly specialty bulbs won't be affected. The red colored and yellow colored bulbs are specialty bulbs.

But stock up anyway. Can't hurt.

[oregon woodsmok]

We'll have to wait and see what happens.

I don't use the heat lamps, but I do use incandescent outdoor spotlights as brooder lamps. I don't know what they expect us to brood chicks with if we can't get incandescent light bulbs.

I've stocked up whenever I see them on sale.

I gotta tell you, though, the spotlights purchased this spring burn out in a couple of weeks. So, it appears that the useful incandescent spotlights are already gone. Exterior spotlights used to last for many years.

[eross230]

I use 100 watt bulbs (2 or) depending on the number of chicks and the area I need to cover. I think these will not be available. But thanks for the info on specialty bulbs.

[Danaus29]

The 100 watt bulbs are no longer available here.

[akane]

I'm pretty sure the high watt bulbs sold for brooders and reptiles will be around but I'm not sure about 40-100w bulbs which is all I use most of the time since I raise in the house. I might use a 100w bulb if I'm keeping the house quite cold while raising some late winter but otherwise I use a 60w. I also go down by 20watts at a time instead of changing the height of the lamp since it's much easier to change a bulb when your lamp sits directly on your brooder top rather than building something to attach it to at various heights. Also rather annoying in winter here since we have individual incandescent screw in fixtures for our stable and out buildings. Even the screw in fluorescents that advertise a fast start up take many minutes to come on when it's below 0 out. Some still take as long as 20mins to reach full brightness and by then I'm usually done with whatever task so we just end up leaving them on 24/7 and using the same electricity as an incandescent would have.

[suelandress]

No doubt the lizard lamps will still be available. I really like those, as they last a lot longer and are much harder to break than the heatlamps.....and the chicks actually get used to the dark at night.....

[OKIE2]

I don't know how much heat they put out but I have the yard light that uses the big bulbs and it has lasted for 19 years now and 14 years of that it burned 24/7 and it is still going. buy them from your electric company.