BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders! - Page 8

You can view our brooder pics using the link below in my signature.  We used an old dog kennel for ours.  Its been working great so far (day 6).

Here's mine:



From left to right: 'week-olds', 'day-olds', '2-week-olds'

Lol, last winter, I had 6 of those totes lined up in the spare room (aka 'the bird room').

Lisa

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Hopefully the chicks arrive tomorro!  The brooder is in the basement, in front of a window, the heat lamp is out of sight, but it is at a perfect 95 to start!

I have such horrible luck with posting pictures!!!

Oh my gosh!!! Well, that is the lamp above the brooder and here is the brooder!

Its big enogh for them now, but I'll move up.

The girls are about 4 days old now, got em on Wednesday...how long should I leave the paper towels over the wood shaves?

You can remove paper towels after the firt day or two, as long as they know what their feed is, they will continue to eat it.  You may see them picking around in the shavings and eating a little here and there, but don't worry about it.

Here's a tip on the photos.  There is a preview and a submit button, you can hit preview to see what your message is going to look like before you hit submit.  If the picture doesn't show up you can keep editing your message and hitting preview until you get it right.  Then you hit submit.

If you submit one and it doesn't look right, you can still fix that mesage by choosing the edit button on the lower right corner of your message.

I only get a few chicks at a time so I use a rabbit/guinea pig cage as a brooder. Seems to work real well. Deep enough that they don't get wood shavings everywhere and when I put them outside for fun in the sun all I have to do is take the top off.