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  1. leslielbk

    Do I really have to keep chicks in brooder for 6 weeks?

    How many chickens & chicks do you have? I ask because I'm finalizing the plans (called panic) for the addition. I have 19, mostly heavies with a few "regular" sized. The coop can either be 4'x16' or 4'x19'. The larger requires a 3' expansion panel for the back, how I handle merging the roof peak...
  2. leslielbk

    Do I really have to keep chicks in brooder for 6 weeks?

    I was, Blooie. I appreciate the work you've put into it, thinking about all the important aspects. I think a lot about it too, it looks like we all do, but I really look at people's plans and try to take ideas for my own system. I took me a lot of research to pick a brooder, and just found the...
  3. leslielbk

    Do I really have to keep chicks in brooder for 6 weeks?

    Where are they? It's hard to tell from the photos, but mine are in my living room! I'm expanding the coop, which is currently lifted off the concrete, sitting on moving dollies waiting for the rain to stop. Hopefully that'll happen before they're ready to lay lol
  4. leslielbk

    Do I really have to keep chicks in brooder for 6 weeks?

    What a great setup! I got my pen used, for $17. Zip-tied 24" high chicken wire around, put down a shower curtain and clothespinned that up around the outside to contain the mess...not that they make any:rolleyes: I put down giant commercial garbage bags, layered on top of one another so I can...
  5. leslielbk

    Do I really have to keep chicks in brooder for 6 weeks?

    13 chicks in a baby pool is going to get crowded fast, too, wherever you put it. Last year I got 4 chicks and kept them in a dog crate in the living room for 3-4(?) weeks, until the little screeching one drove me to madness (she never lost that, lol) This Wed. I got 19 chicks, and put them in a...
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