BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

[mom2chicksandpups]

jag, I really like your brooder. I will have to show the pic to my husband. My daughter and I would love to have one like that so we could watch the chicks.

 

[cybercat]

Well, my most loving husband just brought home dunage from work. What that is is card bord half inch thick that is 5 feet by 3 feet. He brought home 8 sheets of it. Will post pick when it is up. i have 25 rocks comming in 10 days.

 

[OSUman]

I have 12 chicks and i used a 100 gallon waterer that was sitting around because it had a heater melt through it.

 

[m2wandc]

I'm new to this, so this is my first attempt at a brooder...and hubby was out of town so I had to 'figure it out' on my own while raiding his tool box & work shop! LOL But the chicks seem content with their new diggs!

and a little clip of them chirping about...

 

[MaggieRae]

AHA! After 3 evenings I've finally seen all the brooders on this thread! Still not sure what I'm going to do though...

But they all look great!!!

 

[sloallie10]

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i saw them in 2 days, but mostly the second day!

 

[Belgian Lady]

Here are some pictures of my brooders. I do keep them in the house for a week then they go into the big brooders.

This is 4 X 8 feet and completely enclosed in hard wire. The top is split in half so I can lift either side. The one inside the barn is split in half right now with chicks on one side and goslings on the other side. I have rubber mats on part of the floor so they can get off the hard wire. I can pull the mats out and hose them off to keep it some what clean.
I have them on casters so I can roll them around and clean under them too.


***Edited to fix first pic link***

 

[Sam The Yam]

My 6 chicks started out in this hutch that I put a cardboard box inside with the lamp and food/water. Then eventually I took the box out and let them have full run of the hutch. I recently added a run to the hutch that extends into my garden and then put another door into the wire wall and now I can let them out when I am out there to watch them. I eventually will build a long, narrow, coop along the fence and into the garden as I did with this temporary enclosure. It works well!

 

[BabyChickNewbie]

I am new at having chicken/rosters. We went to a 'deworming your horse' thing at the feed store and my son charmed his way out of there with these cute guys. (the owner gave them to my son) Luckly I had a 30gl tank that I previously had frogs in. I know this wont work forever cause just in 2 weeks they are double in size. I have had to clean out the tank 3x's in less than 2 weeks cause they poop none stop. Its crazy! But we love to sit and watch them.

He lets them out to run around him room for about 10 minutes a day, about twice a day. Is that ok? Is it ok to have them in your backyard if you live in the city? What kind are they? I think he got 2 males but the kids mixed them all up, so how can I tell if they are male/female?


Here is what I have ours in-

 

[Spires6]

I went to a yard sale this weekend and came home with 2 dog crates to use as 2nd stage brooders. Our first were rubber made containers. The chicks and poults love their new homes.