BROODER thread! Post pics of your brooders!

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~You Lost Me on that one}}}}
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Sorry, pictures would be better, huh??
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I am using a 45 gal tupperware.
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When chicks hit between two-three weeks, I'll "add on" a playroom for my 10 chicks, which is a extra-large sized, fully enclosed dog crate, so they'll have the original tupperware bin opening onto what I called the "playroom". Kind of like this, but with the tupperware 45 gal on the end, not the cabinet:
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At six weeks or thereabouts, I'll set up the dog crate inside my laying hens' large enclosed run:
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and add to it a doggie play pen, which is 4ft high and has eight metal panels which create a space of about 25 ft squared. Similar to this link, but with 8 smaller panels that you can configure according you your needs!
http://www.dogkennels.com/dog-kennels/dog-kennels/cottageviewdogkennel1.cfm

Add roosts, tack on a "roof" of plastic green fencing, and voila! Chick apartment and playground!

Hope that was a better explanation. I used the terms, "efficiency", "one-bedroom", and the last would be a "town-house with playground?" just for fun.
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My brooder box is a multi-tasker. For 6 weeks every other year it's a brooder and the rest of the time it's my electric tools box. It's on wheels and I roll it around on the shop floor. I have two tops for it . . . one is a screen as shown and one is solid plywood for the tools. The little ball that the light is fastened to stays in there all the time - I just remove the light fixture arm when it's used as a toolbox. Works for me.

Oh yeah, that's one of our Goldens checking on HIS chicks.

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My first brooder. It is three 48" x 40" sections on shipping pallets set end to end lengthwise. Paneled with shipping cardboard and framed with shipping corners. All obtainable in warehouse dumpsters etc..
I had two small bits of plexiglass on hand with which I made windows for my kiddies to inspect the birds. The chicks were started confined in one section. They seem very happy with their digs.




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This looks very similar to what I had at my other farm, only we put legs on it so it was up off the floor and easier to care for, and we had a screen lid to keep the barn cats out.
 

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