kiddie pool brooder question

[Gravedigger]

http://www.walmart.com/ip/My-Sunshine-6-Snap-Set-Pool/19336121



Is 15 inches tall enough for a meat chicken brooder or add cardboard traipse height?

Is this large enough for 25 birds for thee weeks?

 

[farnorth]

I don't think that would be big enough for 25 meat chicks for more than a week....they grow fast.

I had 11 meat chickens and had them in a trampoline frame covered in chicken wire. It not like they will fly out but other things can get in.

You aren't going to brooder 25 meat chickens in your house I hope? They eat and crap constantly and will smell your house to high heaven after a week. They are seriously way more gross than laying breeds. I had to move the trampoline frame all over the yard or the poop built up in just a day....and that was only 11 of them and they were outside. by 5 weeks old they were the size of a small laying hen.

 

[kmartinez]

you would have to put cardboard around that to give it move height..I have 2 ducks in a kiddle pool but i will say my 17 layers would not have enough space in a kiddie pool..

 

[Gravedigger]

pie r squared

3.14x3x3= 28.26 sq ft

I thought 1 sq foot per bird

 

[aatx]

Have you purchased that pool yet? Just from looking at it, it looks like it requires water in it to hold the sides up. Without the water, they would just fold in or collapse.

 

[Gravedigger]

Have you purchased that pool yet?  Just from looking at it, it looks like it requires water in it to hold the sides up.  Without the water, they would just fold in or collapse.

That's a good point. Available locally so I'll check.