Brooder design ideas and questions

[Mosey2003]

I would worry, yes. Even with them hanging in the hoods with the crossed wires across the front, I came out one morning to one broken, obviously by the large chicks.

 

[archeryrob]

No one appears to be using guards on these, that I can see. They are semi high in the low box.

The ITC-1000 is a controller for heat and cooling. I used on on our Deer cooler to cycle a window air conditioner to be a refrigerator for a small room.

In this case I would use the heat settings to turn the heat lamp(s) on and off. Firstweek or so 95° and I can vary it down every coupe weeks until it is only 80 and they may be ready to head out or I can turn the lamps off.

 

[Molpet]

are these cornish or cornish cross chicks?
if cornish cross you have to starve and exercise them to keep them alive to breeding age. all they can eat for 10 min 2x a day after 1 wk old,,, They don't breed true.
I used my barnyard roo over a cx hen back in 2016. Most of my birds are descendants, cockerels dress out 4-7lbs at 16 wks,,, There are several of us trying to make a sustainable meat bird.

 

[aart]

The ITC-1000 is a controller for heat and cooling. I used on on our Deer cooler to cycle a window air conditioner to be a refrigerator for a small room.

Is this how your garage got 'intolerably' hot?

 

[archeryrob]

The chicks are Dark Cornish from Ideal. I am going to try sustainable. When my daughter moves out in a couple years i will drop a flock of dark cornish from crackle probably on that coop and do rotations for genetics. Band all the birds and track it.

Yes Aart, The garage is detached and a thre ebay. Bay 1 wife, bay 2 my truck and bay three tractor, work bench and all other "rob" stuff. Chicken plucker in design still eating some floor. It is my work space and it is all dry walled and insulated and the heat lamp is making it hard to work in there. I can walk in and take care of them and almost bust a sweat. I built the door for the new run the other day and had the back two doors open and still sweating. it just wouldn't release the heat.

 

[aart]

It is my work space and it is all dry walled and insulated and the heat lamp is making it hard to work in there. I can walk in and take care of them and almost bust a sweat. I built the door for the new run the other day and had the back two doors open and still sweating. it just wouldn't release the heat.

Are you using the controller on the heat lamp?
If so, where is the temp sensor?
If not, open some windows!

 

[archeryrob]

I am not using the sensor, yet. I want too I may build an Ohio brooder and I would probably hang the sensor in the middle from the top of the brooder just above the bottom. The top would be to hot and not read correctly and the bottom would get trampled and buried and in the wood chips, read cold and never turn off.

This would be a see how it works test before placing chicks in it and having some die while I test it.