brooder

[rita2paul]

what does everyone use for a brooder, also what do you hang your heat lamp on.

 

[AlleysChicks]

I use the biggest plastic tote I can find and cut the lid all the way around and attach some of the fencing for ventilation. I attached my heat lamp to a jack in the garage lol

 

[rita2paul]

i have a plastic rabbit house which i have used many times, but i ave trouble finding how to hang the heater, the last few times i have had it balancing on the back of the chairs, and i always worry it might fall, i need to find another way of hanging it, i keep my little chicks inside.

 

[AlleysChicks]

Zip tie it. I used 3 zip ties to make sure it wouldn’t fall.

 

[nminusyplusm]

I made mine out of old doors, lined it with plastic sheeting and added pine shavings. I did not use a heat lamp because they're dangerous also I brooded inside my house and wanted chicks to sleep at night so I made a Mama Heating Pad:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...d-in-the-brooder-picture-heavy-update.956958/

 

[jreardon1918]

Just wrapping up our first year. It has been great. Among the things I would do differently, is to listen to the advice that says... get the coop done first. Then you can brood outside... never again will we have chicks in the house. Our original brooder was a plastic tote. I think we kept it too hot. Wee had some casualties in the first week. So next time MHP out in the coop or run.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I used a bathtub and hung the heat lamp from the shower head and also secured it to the shower door frame. It worked just fine but I don't plan on brooding indoors again.

 

[lazy gardener]

I brood in a grow out coop, using MHP cave method. I cringe at the thought of folks brooding chicks with a heat lamp, or in the house. And especially in a tote, in the house, under a heat lamp. Too much heat is lethal.

 

[aimwad]

I also used the biggest plastic tote I could find. We camp a lot so we have a tripod that we use for dutch oven cooking for over campfire. I used that tripod to hang the heat lamp from. Just shortened the chain when it was time to raise the lamp. Worked real well.

 

[rita2paul]

some really great ideas, i have bought a komodo heat hanger, i have hatched many years with my indoor rabbit house, it is very large and have never lost any birds as yet, when they first hatch i have to put in another house to make it smaller so they keep warm and know where the food and water is, then after a week i take it out and let them have more space, then they go to an outbuilding at 4 weeks, then outside when they are bigger.