BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

[xadika]

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[hunterjumper999]

I'm totally blown away by your brooders! My Chicks are living in a 3' X 3' rabbit hutch with a slightly raised floor in my heated shed. They have a little cardboard house that I replace every few days and a broom stuck thru the slats on the side to roost.

they are big enough now to not have any cardboard. The ducks are in a similar smaller cage and the pullets are going outside this weekend because they are just too big!

but still..

wow I feel like a bad chicken mom !

 

[Boyd]

Here's what I use. It goes in the spare room, not under that window

I just clamp on a heat lamp and we're all set.

 

[jennmugg]

This was our medium sized dog's crate.

 

[nakedchicksrule]

Here is mine. One 1 window found in the trash 4 pieces of subfloor leftover from a job and a small scrap of linoleum flooring. The top lifts off of the floor so you can take it outside a hose it off. Very easy and free and you can see what they are doing which is cool i think.

 

[wings]

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wow! nice brooder! I like the whole recycled theme.

 

[farmin'chick]

Here's my brooder condo -- 3 story high rise! I built it from 1 sheet of half inch OSB - the boxes are 2 x 4 ft, 2 10" high, one 18" high. The legs are 60" 2x4's set on with lag screws. The bottoms are made of hardware cloth (1/2" screen) and I line them with cardboard, newsprint, then litter.

 

[hensintheghetto]

Mine started in the bottom of a dog crate that my dog refused to go in:

Since they started roosting on the edge and escaping that, they are now in an expanded chick condo:

It's not pretty, but it's all stuff we already had and they seem happy and fairly content to stay in their expanded area for now.

I've been putting grass in for them the last few days and they love it!

 

[Sam The Yam]

I acquired a rabbit hutch from a relative and first put my six peepers in a box inside the hutch with the lamp and food/water, and then had cut a doorway in the box so that in the warmth of the day they could come out but were still safely enclosed in the hutch, and then one weekend I was out of town and a friend was checking in on them for me, and he told me that he had come over and found that some had been able to get over the box top. So when I got home I took the box out and then took a 1X8 and cut three walls, since the back of the hutch was already a board wall, and then they still had some protection from the colder night air, but full run of the hutch. They seem to enjoy their home and I am planning to expand it as they get older.

 

[cw]

i use an old water trough for horses

carboard floor covered with pine shavings

best part free and little work looks alright
(free cause it started to leak a little water