ChickRing Studio

ChickRing Studio helps first-time hatch-day keepers, 4-H families, backyard flock starters, and small-batch meat-bird raisers lock a predator-safe, correctly heated brooder plan before day-old chicks arrive. Choose chick count and size class (bantam, standard layer, heavy dual-purpose, or meat bird), pick a heat source, draw the brooder footprint, and place the heat center. Live hot, comfort, and cool gradient rings update as wattage or height changes—with red unsafe pile-up zone warnings so first-week chill, crush piles, and tip-over drinkers are designed out, not discovered after losses. Open a seeded starter gallery—10 layers in a tote ring, 25 Cornish in a hoop, bantam bathtub bay, stock-tank dual-lamp—and duplicate any plan into an editable project with headcount and arrival week already filled. Compare clamp lamps, dual lamps, hover plates, and radiant panels side-by-side with coverage radius, typical wattage, thermostat vs height control, and fire-clearance notes, then lock one into the plan. Draw a rectangle box or circular ring on a dimensioned floor canvas. Edit the age-week temperature playbook on a chart from day-one targets through feather-out; the app flags step-downs that are too steep for your size class. Run the gear clearance calculator for drinker and feeder height, tip-proof spacing from the heat core, and chick-reach limits so water stays cool and feed stays out of the hot ring. Pick bedding type and depth (paper for first days vs pine shavings bands) with moisture and dust notes, then stage a simple swap sequence timed to the same week ladder. Browse the illustrated comfort field guide showing posture and sound cues for too-hot, too-cold, and just-right chicks, mapped back to which ring zone to widen or which setpoint to nudge. Generate a shareable setup card—dimensions, heat source, week-1 targets, gear list, density check—via ShareLink or PDF export for the helper building the ring while you are at the feed store. Save multiple brooder projects fully offline, pin favorites on the home bay, and glance a Widget week-stage summary with current age band and target temperature. No accounts, no alerts, no background pings. Built for the hours before chicks hit the floor: real dimensions, real heat rings, real week-by-week setpoints.