How often do you clean your brooder?

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Blooie said:
DE is diatomacious earth.  For the chickens we use food grade. It's helpful with pest control and odor control, among lots of other things, and available at most farm stores or online.  I am one of those people who is most likely overdoing the cleaning routine.  One day I strip it down to bare surface, spread newspapers, pretty good layer of shavings over that, and clean the roosts, the waterer and feeder.  The next day I just scoop out the soiled litter, add fresh, clean the roosts, waterers and feeders, and call it good.  I alternate - one day the whole 9 yards, the next day just the litter.

In my defense, I have a two and half year old granddaugher with Spina Bifida and some other, less severe, health problems.  She is here almost every day. So if it comes down to a little extra work or her safety and well being, I'll over-clean any day!  
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how much DE do you use?
 
I got a couple of old watermelon boxes from Walmart placed a piece of wood in the bottom covered it with shavings. Made a top with 1x3 boards and chicken wire. Hang my heat lamp from the top. So I have two brooders that fix about 26 chickens each until they are about four weeks, once feathered they go down stair into a small house inside the coop so they are introduced to the flock without getting hurt for about another three weeks. I clean the brooder when ever it needs it. about once or twice a week.
 
AlienChick said:
I have 20 baby chicks.

Brooder is a large dog cage that is 2.5 x 3.5. I have a bedding of wood shavings.

I've only had the chicks for a week, so I have not changed the shavings yet.
I'll probably change it within a couple of days. (My plan was to do it once a week.)
I do occasionally add shavings to the "bald" spots that they scratch up.
I also have a light sprinkling of DE in there so it doesn't stink.

I can see myself changing bedding quite often when they get bigger!

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At the moment we have 5 chicks in the brooder 2ft x 4ft and we are cleaning it out once per day. we are using puppy pads for bedding until they are 1 week old.
 
So for my freshies to 2 weeks old I use a large tupperware and I clean daily-every other day using puppy pee pads.

3-8 weeks I have large stock tank and another black rubbermaid livestock trough and I clean out after they move out entirely scrub replenish etc....but while they are in it I just add shavings on top when I see it getting dirty....It is too hard to remove them all to do a deep clean as often as they would need it.
 
I have 9 chicks. The brooder is 4x4 with wood shavings at the bottom. Currently I clean it out about every other week but looking at how often everyone else cleans their brooders, should I clean it more often? But even after two weeks the shavings always still look fresh so idk.
 
I try to clean mine every other day. Been using this setup for almost 30 years. It’s one of my old stock tanks when I had Jersey Cows. This is my second Stock tank I’ve gone through over the years.
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