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BrackenFarms

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i built it with two lids with a removable divider. i wire it with a light receptacle on each side.
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being that it is outside i lined the interior with silver reflective foamboard.
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i built it to be used season after season and i intend to stain it after this season the chick dig it and I hope you do too!
 
well for the first 3 days i used the normal "newspaper" but a local breeder/ friend of mine sorta laughed when i told him i was going to use pine shavings.... soooo he told me that the best thing to use is river sand and that he wouldn't dare put pine shavings in his brooders. so considering he is in his 60's and has bred chickens for about that long. i took his advice and used river sand.
 
Your brooder looks great! I hadn't thought about putting sand in there - i bet that would be easy to clean...like a cat box! Looks great, babies are cute!
 
kitty litter might work but probably more expensive and you wouldnt get the same clumping action with (chicken poop and cat litter) as you do with (cat pee and cat litter)
what i did and you may want to try is go to your local mulch yard and ask for some river sand and when they say how much say oh just a wheelbarrow full and that you dont mind loading it by hand ( for this you may want to take a shovel and a pucket or two or something to put sand in) and since the mulch yard chargees for larger quantities they will probably say you can have it for free if you load it yourself
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I never thought of sand as litter for the brooder makes a lot of sense. What was the breeders issue with Pine I am just curious. I have used it for a long time and not had issues.. I know chicks can injest it. Is there another reason?

Thanks
 

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