They seemed to work well for the 90 chicks, but we have an insulated room and we had to set up a heater for that, as it is in the barn. But they would take turns being under or outside the heat pads. The noise level, always a good indicator of chick happiness, was mostly always low.
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The lack of chick noise is one of the things I've heard said about these plates. The people we're keeping them with right now (until we have some land), had got a few chicks a couple weeks after we did - I didn't even know she had chicks under her 50-chick plate to begin with! That's how quiet they were!
They're in a heated room this time as well, so haven't tested their full ability yet.