BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

[Iheartchicks<3:)]

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Um, I kinda did it on the fly...Let me see if I can type something out and maybe a material list...Ill PM it to you...

I want it too!

 

[Kathi D]

Thanks!

 

[WhySayWhat]

Iheartchicks<3

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Um, I kinda did it on the fly...Let me see if I can type something out and maybe a material list...Ill PM it to you...

I want it too!​

Me three!

Should just make a BYC page for it though, lol.

 

[cabincrazyone]

DaddysChickens, I hope you don't mind, but I made plans for your brooder. You said you made it on the fly, and I imagine you don't have as much time as I have. I'm retired with a lot of nothing to do and carpentry experience. I started a new thread in this same "Raising Baby Chicks" topic.

 

[papschmitty]

We had originally planned to brood inside but after reading about the mess and smell, my hubby threw together an outdoor brooder at the last minute using materials we had in the garage. We set it on our patio table on the back deck and pushed it up to the windows in the living room. You can't see it in these pictures but it actually has a divider to split the brooder into two smaller, separate areas. We just used half the brooder when we first brought the girls home but upgraded them to the full double wide last weekend.

It has a flip top lid with a very sturdy lock

We used some parts from an old crib to make the mechanism to prop the door open. The rest of the crib parts are actually being used in our playhouse to chicken coop conversion (https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=446554)which is still a work in progress.

We gave them two different roosts. Two of our four girls can get up to them and they seem to prefer the natural tree branch one.

Their food and water containers usually sit on the wooden blocks in the corners but they were inside with the chicks while I took these pictures.

Here's the view from the top looking down into the brooder.

And, best of all, the view from my living room window. Chick TV all day, every day!

Here's Cindy and Betty enjoying their new digs.

 

[cabincrazyone]

Papschmitty, that's a great setup! Complete with thermometer in the "chicken TV" screen.

 

[papschmitty]

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Thanks! I'm pretty proud of my husband considering we're total chicken newbies & he was just making it up as he went along. We call it The Peep Show

 

[teach1rusl]

Here's my MidWest dog crate brooder, 24 x 36 inches. I just wrapped it partly in cardboard, partly in clear vinyl. Since mine is in the house, it maintains a steady temp. +/- 2 degrees. I'm able to just use a 100W bulb now, and will go down to a 75W within a week or so.

 

[CrackyMcZap]

Custom built from scrap to fit in the water heater room.

 

[motoclown]

The "Raising Baby Chicks," section is blowing up with all the new mamas.lol

We started builing our brooder and soon decided to just turn it into a small coop
not done yet but the chicks are here today......