BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

[sandypotter76]

this is my box! But after seeing this thread I need to make a bigger one!!! I got good ideas thanks. My DH made it my chicks love it. It has a heater for heat and nite lights for light. The wooden one is incubator.

 

[PatQ]

I scored a great box at Stop and Shop - one of those big orange boxes- it is about 3' X 4' and 28" high



added a plexiglass window to one side



and a wire door to the other side



2 days old - I think they like it

 

[Canieldonrad]

Can't really see the set up too well in these pics but these are the only ones I have at the moment. We usually just do cardboard box, duct tape, a light of some sort, with feed on the ground. This is how my dad always kept them so I did the same thing.

I used to be big into computer gaming and had two boxes from towers. I have since converted the second box into a brooder box and split the chicks up, 29 was way too many for one.

 

[AlmaB]

I am a first time owner of both chicks and ducks. Inspired by another member from here, I was able to put together a dual brooder for both my ducklings and chicks. Here are some pictures.

 

[MoonShadows]

Some great brooder pics. Thanks and keep 'em coming!

 

[Mattaway]

For starters we went with 3 paper boxes spliced with tape, a hex wire top and light. Now it is time for the stinkies to go outside.

These are pictures of my intermediate outside mobile brooder. It was made from up cycled pallet wood. My plan was to install a ceramic light socket close to the top of the enclosure but I cut the light off of them for several hours last night and they showed no signs of getting a chill so I'm thinking they will not require a light fixture now.









Here they are checking it out as a play date outside before it was finished.

 

[Maligator]

I have my fluffies in a plastic sterlite container. Holes drilled at the top to allow good ventilation, wire dividers on top with a heat lamp to one side. Works very well.

I just have one learning morse code right now by pecking the sides of the box at ALL hours constantly. Driving me nuts!!!

 

[NJchixs]

For starters we went with 3 paper boxes spliced with tape, a hex wire top and light. Now it is time for the stinkies to go outside. These are pictures of my intermediate outside mobile brooder. It was made from up cycled pallet wood. My plan was to install a ceramic light socket close to the top of the enclosure but I cut the light off of them for several hours last night and they showed no signs of getting a chill so I'm thinking they will not require a light fixture now. Here they are checking it out as a play date outside before it was finished.

I like! Nice job.

 

[NJchixs]

My husband built is for me. It's 2x4. The divider wall inside is adjustable for two age groups or just a smaller group. I have hanging water bottles with the water nipples and he put vinyl tiles on the floor for easier cleaning. It works. It's out in the shed and not the house which is nice due to the dust.

 

[Mattaway]

I really dig your brooder!
I was going to do something like this in the shed we have out back, but it was full! We got the baby chicks before I got around to cleaning out the shed, so they have spent the past 4 weeks in the laundry room. That won't happen again! Is your brooder build onto/mounted on the wall? I would probably have to put some kind of border on the bottom half. These little peeps like to scratch and kick shavings EVERYWHERE!