Search results for query: *

Got the crib brooder built. We ended up cutting down the crib and just making it a frame to hold a cardboard box. Funny thing is that once we'd cut it down and screwed it all back together it didn't fit in the door! Had to roll it all the way around to the front door and then two adults had to...

Pics of the crib-brooder will come soon. (Not totally set up yet.) Another newbie question: Does a red light help that much, or am I better off with the right wattage even if it's white light? As noted above, I have a 250 watt red bulb. But it's too hot. I have regular flood lights I could...

Thanks everyone for the replies. I am definitely going to make a larger brooder. Out driving around this morning I trash-picked a crib. I'm going to line it with cardboard and I'll have a beautiful brooder! (But I still think I'm going to have to get a different bulb. That big one just needs to...

I want to add two questions. I am using a tub similar to the one in KBGChicken's photo, for four chicks. My questions are: 1. This tub is going to be too small to go all the way to the point that the girls move outside, right? So I need to look for something bigger. (4 chicks will eventually...