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]

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.

 

[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.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Well if you can bring them into a space that was heated before power loss I would think fewer then if in a garage.

I lean toward the good ole hand warmers like these...
https://www.amazon.com/HotHands-War...hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584138857752017&psc=1

A couple of those in with chicks while in a cardboard box with air holes of course could go a long way.

With 25 they will also make a "chick pile" and keep each other warm somewhat so the hand warmers would be aided by the number of chicks you will have.

 

[Silexian]

From what I information I could find. A lot of the old metal brooders were fairly similar. This is a picture of the one I refurbished. If yours is similar. I can post more detailed pictures of how it goes together.