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Pseudo Brooder Heater 'Plate'I like this simple plan and just bought the pad. Your share is still inspiring others.
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Homemade IncubatorUpdate.. I now have built 3 of the frig. incubators and use them every Easter Hatch... averaging 80 to 90 percent hatch rate... very happy with... -
Ikea Inspired Brooder BoxThe boot feeders made my day! But the whole brooder is really nice. I love Ikea hacks
Thanks for taking the time to document your work.
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Setting up a Chick Brooder 🐥I can’t find the great one at the moment. Here’s one I have on hand. I can take a new one including the whole thing but no chicks will be included. 😉
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DIY Chicken TV BrooderI am getting chicks for the first time and wanted an inexpensive option. I’ve got a radiant heat...- Clairenh
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Kathyinmos BroodersGreat informative article. I was looking for inspiration for a 2 story brooder.- Ruby Rogue
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The Brooder PenBeautiful design, informative. More pics of construction would've made it a better article.
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Setting up a Chick Brooder 🐥Great job! I learned a lot even though I though I knew it all!:thumbsup- ChickForLife
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Homemade Egg Incubator - No Gas! No Electricity!While this is a neat idea to reuse something that is broken, I don't believe that this incubator...- karenerwin
Incubators & Brooders
Over 100 chicken brooders and incubators. Pictures, designs, and plans.
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Short on Time? Recycle-a-Prefab Brooder
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'
There were several discussions around March 2014 in multiple threads in multiple sub forums about using a people heating pad to simulate the... -
Amferro103s Homemade Chicken Brooder
HomeMade Brooder After deciding we were hooked on hatching we decided to build a durable brooder that we could us over and over. We... -
Setting up a Chick Brooder 🐥
Setting Up A Chick Brooder 🐤🐤🐤 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• When setting up a chick brooder, you might be surprised to... -
Yorkshire coops guinea cage brooder
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... -
How I made a Mama Heating Pad Plate
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... -
Franken-bator -- Converting a cheap yellow topped model with the Incukit Mini
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
WORK IN PROGRESS—LAST UPDATED JUNE 2020 After becoming dissatisfied with my Little Giant's propensity to temperature swings, I went on the market... -
How to Make a Cooler Incubator
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
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.
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)
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... -
The Moonshiner's Pepsi Cooler Incubator
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... -
Building a Custom Glass Door Incubator
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Several years ago we were "gifted" a mature Welsummer rooster. We generally do not bring mature birds into our flock due to the risk of... -
My coop brooder and Integration
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
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... -
Emergency Chick Brooder for Power Outages
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... -
How to: Build a Homemade Incubator (Griffin Nest)
•Return to Homepage• How to: Build a Homemade Incubator I've seen some cool designs for homemade incubators all over the internet, but some of...