brooder chicks ideas

  1. ChickaChicka1

    What's your favorite brooder box?

    So many people have so many different opinions on what their favorite thing to use as a chick brooder box is. So I'm putting it out there - what's your absolute favorite thing to use? Be sure to comment with any specific things you do with your brooder, and to add anything not on the list that...
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  2. Blue's Tips & Tricks to Raising Chicks

    Blue's Tips & Tricks to Raising Chicks

    Let's start with a disclaimer: I've only been raising chicks for about 13 years and there are about as many ways to do it as there are people doing it. Following is a description of how my DH and I do it, which works for us in a humid, temperate climate in mid-America, and may or may not work...
  3. suburbanjungle

    Double Brooder Box from Old IKEA Dresser

    When I got my chicks last summer, I set up a pretty decent brooder in my garage. It was warm enough that I was able to maintain the right temperature in the unheated and uninsulated garage. (I live in California.) When I was preparing for chicks this past March, however, I found that I wasn't...
  4. Disintegration

    Brooder Ideas for 16 Bantam Chicks?

    I've gotten really attached to the idea of getting bantams this June, but I'm still unsure about brooder size. I think I'll be getting 15 or 16 straight run bantams, raising them until they can be put in the coop (so around 6 weeks) and then keeping around 8-10 and selling or giving away the...
  5. minaayindra

    Need the right advice re: 1-day old chick supplies

    I would like to ask all the readers a question about supplies for chicks. What I heard while on here was similar to a lot of other lists as far as items for a good start in the home, but I also discover variances re: what I should get. I have 14 chicks arriving in 4 weeks and then 5 guinea keets...
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    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  6. morgandrew86

    bigger brooder ideas?

    hello! our new chicks are gonna go on 2.5 weeks and are getting bigger, right now that are in a plastic storage tote and doing fine but its gonna be time to start thinking about a bigger brooder... what do you guys use for those yourself? i would love to see some easy ideas that will hold up in...
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