BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

[countrybum]

So did the tiger or the rooster win?

 

[nikki24]

This is my brooder.I got the idea from the first post on this thread.
The babies will be added tomorrow.Ill add another pic with them then.

This is my frist time postin a picture.I hope it works right!

 

[Diva]

No pictures but My current Brooder is a Mary K. Pink tub we picked up cheap from Habitate for Humanity. I purchased it last summer for my horse to eat her AM hay out of in the pasture. Chicks are out growing my metal stock tank in the master bathroom so I will have to borrow the tub until they feather out.

L.

 

[lil'chickies]

Here are 2 of my 3 brooders right now.

This one is for my chickies!
They love scratching around in the straw too.

This is for the ducklings and goslings. They are all at the end curled up where I have a heating pad under the trough! The geese are a lot younger and so much bigger!!

Sorry it is sideways, don't know how to turn it on here!

I have one more I haven't taken a pic of yet. It's an old 55 gallon fish aquarium that 2 turkey poults are occupying.

 

[Shanepaul]

Mine is an old toy box. I loved it for the lid and the thick plastic holds heat very well, which i need because it was still cold when my chicks arrived.

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

I'm still working on making my brooder pretty. lol till then you all have to wait to see it!

 

[pixiechic]

Here's our chick brooder V.2.0, designed and built by DH.

We used a 4×4 sheet of plywood as the floor, on a frame of 2×4s and 2×4 lumber sliced into 3/4″ strips. This year’s model has a 3″ lip around all four sides at the bottom to help keep the shavings in. We got a sheet of vinyl flooring remnant at Home Depot for about $20 and used that to line the floor, including the lip.

DH added small furniture-caster wheels to the bottom, which work OK but could probably be larger. The whole thing is wrapped securely in chicken wire attached with staples, and any rough wire edges were covered in duct tape so nobody gets scratched. The hinged lid opens on both sides instead of just one, which makes it easier to clean and to get stuff in and out. The chicks have been in the brooder for four weeks now and it’s a huge improvement over the first version. The chicks don’t seem to mind the bathroom-floor ambience, and it's easy to clean and move around.

The little roost you see at the top of this pic is just a dowel and a couple of pieces of scrap lumber, drilled to fit. The chicks love it!

More pics here .

 

[nikki24]

MY BABIES ARE HERE! MY BABIES ARE HERE!!!
I didnt get the ones I thought I was getting because the hatchery delayed my order so I went to the feed store since they FINALLY had more chicks! No pullet golden comets but I got 37 ISB browns.From what I'm reading they are the same so I'm still just as happy! plus I got them .60 cents each cheaper! Here they are!!

here they are eating...

drinking!!!

oh and I tryed to go on stike once with my family..All boys/men... It got so out of control and filthy all I did was make more work for myself later!!! Boy was I mad!!!

wont do that again...lol

 

[countrybum]

Congrats, they are adorable and so are all of mine and everyone elses.

 

[TaLani]

I have this brooder for the chicks to go into once they are all dry in the bator. We keep them in this for up to 2 weeks.

Then they graduate into a larger brooder when they start to get their feathers more (and want to try out for flight school!). You can see it to the right of the small brooder. It's basically 1/2 of my shed! I call it the open or graduate brooder. In the upper rt hand corner is a mini-hospital (we had a predator attack recently & our Polish hen is in there).

Here's a pic of some of our current babies in what I call the open or graduate brooder. Once the chicks are fully feathered, then they go outside to the "grown up coop".