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Overbuilt not overpriced BrooderThanks for checking it out! I've made a few mods as time has gone on but it's mostly the same. Now that they are bigger and more comfortable with...
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Overbuilt not overpriced BrooderWow! You will be happy it’s so big when they get bigger! Great job. My hubby made ours out of a taller, but not long like yours, shipping crate... -
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Amferro103s Homemade Chicken BrooderBeautiful brooder! I love the simple, easy to duplicate design.- janiedoe
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Pseudo Brooder Heater 'Plate'Great article. I've bookmarked it to send to relatives, who are getting their first chicks soon...
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Overbuilt not overpriced BrooderWhat an awesome idea. Did you take any pictures while you were putting it together?- Kiki
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Incubators & Brooders
Over 100 chicken brooders and incubators. Pictures, designs, and plans.
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Short on Time? Recycle-a-Prefab Brooder
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or: How I learned to stop worrying and love brooding outdoors! Contents: Building the Brooder Making a Mama Heating Pad Early Integration... -
Pseudo Brooder Heater 'Plate'
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There were several discussions around March 2014 in multiple threads in multiple sub forums about using a people heating pad to simulate the... -
Setting up a Chick Brooder 🐥
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Setting Up A Chick Brooder 🐤🐤🐤 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• When setting up a chick brooder, you might be surprised to... -
The Moonshiner's Pepsi Cooler Incubator
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My Pepsi cooler incubator build It all started one day when I drove past a garage sale and saw this Pepsi cooler. I instantly thought... -
Amferro103s Homemade Chicken Brooder
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- Reaction score: 14
- Comments: 50
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HomeMade Brooder After deciding we were hooked on hatching we decided to build a durable brooder that we could us over and over. We... -
How I made a Mama Heating Pad Plate
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I love this method of raising chicks. It has worked so well for my last two small broods, and those babies have grown up happy, healthy and... -
Yorkshire coops guinea cage brooder
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This is my guinea cage brooder with Brinsea Eco glow heat plate. Ideal for indoor use for the first couple of weeks after hatching. No risk of... -
Franken-bator -- Converting a cheap yellow topped model with the Incukit Mini
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Note: after 2 years of use, I've come to the conclusion that these two incubators are only really good for lock down incubators. I thought it... -
Building the BinBator
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After becoming dissatisfied with my Little Giant's propensity to temperature swings, I went on the market for a new incubator. I wanted something... -
My coop brooder and Integration
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I use a coop brooder with the Mama heat pad. At four weeks, I use a panic door panel for the brooder, to let the chicks interact with the big... -
DIY Chicken TV Brooder
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One of the reasons I got chickens was so that my kids could have the opportunity to grow up with animals, the way I did. So it made sense to start... -
How to Make a Cooler Incubator
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How to Make a Basic Cooler Incubator Easy Instructions for Making you own High Quality Incubator As of 2017, a cooler incubator will cost you... -
Indoor Chick Brooder and Grow Out Pen
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I thought I would share how our indoor brooder set up looks and what we did when they needed more space but still didn't have a finished coop yet... -
Keeping my wood brooder floor dry.
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Greeting from the The Quack Shack! I'd like to give all credit to the great people here at BYC for this. What is working for me is just a... -
Harris Farms Nurture Right 360 Incubator (Updated)
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I originally posted this in the "Incubating & Hatching Eggs" forum and it was recommended to me that I should make it an article. I have updated... -
Modified Little Giant Incubator for Hatching Success!
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If you have a Little Giant Incubator and you are as disappointed with your hatches as I was, I can lead you through some modifications to make it... -
Emergency Chick Brooder for Power Outages
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Imagine this, you wake up in the middle of the night and the power is out. You get up, set up the emergency lights in the house, call the power... -