Antique brooder

[Gardening Gal]

I'm looking for info on a Sear, Roebuck and Co. Model 595.92252 brooder. It's hexagonal metal. Heating element and light socket works but I can figure out how is goes together and an internet search hasn't helped. I have 25 chicks arriving in 3 days. Any help would be much appreciated!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Can you post a couple pictures of it?
It may help people who have seen them but don't currently have one to identify what they actually saw.

 

[Percheron chick]

Picture?
I'm always a little gun shy around "antique" appliances. I just don't trust them. No reason.

 

[Silexian]

If you post pictures. Someone may be able to give you some direction of how it goes together .

 

[Gardening Gal]

Can you post a couple pictures of it?

It may help people who have seen them but don't currently have one to identify what they actually saw.

 

[Gardening Gal]

I will in the morning. I'm in my pj's now and we are to get some thunderstorms later. Thanks for the suggestion. If all else fails I do have a heat lamp but my chicks will be in an unheated garage and I decided to haul this old brooder out thinking the hood would help keep the heat in the box better.

 

[21hens-incharge]

I understand your concerns.

I am brooding chicks in my shop (unheated) and had to put a piece of 2" thick insulation board over them when temps dropped to single digits here.
My brooder is about 30" wide and 6' long. The water is on the opposite end from the heat lamp and actually froze once in there. The chicks were all fine but it caused me some anxiety.

 

[Gardening Gal]

I was hoping the Temps would be a tad warmer by the 1st part of April! Now I get to worry about losing power with all the storms!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Keep hand warmers on hand. They can be life savers in a power outage.
There's an article on it....I will try to find that.

 

[21hens-incharge]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/emergency-chick-brooder-for-power-outages.75738/

Found it.