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I have successfully raised 25 chicks under one.. I use two of the 12x15 pads side by side under and welded wire fencing frame, bungeed on and covered with a zippered pillowcase. I drape cloth diapers over the top. Plenty of room for while they are small and need the heat - but he time they are...

I personally have found that two 12x15 ones side by side making a big MHP work well for that many (I have done 25 with the MHP multiple times). That adds up to 12x30 - so it may work (esp. if it's not super cold). The nice thing is that with that many chicks, they get a lot of body heat form...

FWIW, when I moved chicks out that weren't quite fully feathered, Murphy's Law came around and we had a cold snap. What worked really well was to go in after dark and drape a towel over the MHP extending outwards of the front and back. They all snuggled under it, some under the MHP itself, some...

I didn't use press and seal. I put the whole thing in a zippered pillowcase, and I used cloth baby diapers on top - they are absorbent and meant to be pooped on, and can be swapped out for fresh and laundered after it's all over. Blooie uses old towel that she pitches afterwards - don't blame...

Not more than 30 (certainly not 48), but around 30. In that case, the arrangements were unique, in that about 8 or so of them were a week older, so they were divided from the others in a large (6x3) brooder at first - each group had their own MHP at either end. I removed the divider after a few...

I'm totally trying that next time I have to redo one...

YES!!! That. The purchased one is lower but wider, so reasonable for little chicks provided there is bedding high enough (when they are first tarting, there's paper towels over all of it including the stand). But this is perfect for the bigger kickers. I took some "real life" photos of them in...

SO sorry about this, Blooie. I had the same experience with a group of 25 chicks coming from Idaho at the end of February. They took 4 full days, with a very long "layover" in Colorado. One dead on arrival, and over the next week lost another 8. It was so frustrating, I've raised a lot of...

Thank you both for this wonderful idea! I am chagrined to say that while I compost my adult chicken bedding, I throw out the chick brooder bedding because there is so much spilled food there and I already have enough of a rodent and raccoon problem and don't want to make things worse by putting...

The largest group I've done is 30 - I use the 12x15 pads, and used two side by side (with the long edge on the side), so that the heating pad area is 15x24. Works fine if you can get a nice strong structure. I am in Texas, and I brood indoors, so this hasn't been stressed like it has in Blooie's...

I'm late in responding, but since you seem to be wanting a big brooder, thought I'd share mine. I built four this year (and have a fifth that I use as an isolation/hospital ward for adult chickens). The frame is 2x2s, and I drilled holes so that each side bolts together with carriage bolts, and...