Brooder

[bunky8384]

Show me your brooder set up! I’ll be getting 15 new chicks mid March, which is the most by far that I will have brooded at once so our little flimsy corrugated plastic brooder isn’t going to cut it this time. I’m not opposed to setting something up in the coop but we have 15 hens and a roo in there so that makes me a bit nervous!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I brood in coop using mama heat pad....integrating beginning at 3 weeks

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

I like using 2x4 metal troughs. They are perfect! You can buy them at TRactor supply.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I recommend reading this
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...rt-raising-your-chicks-outdoors.71995/?page=2

 

[A.M. Eggs]

I have a large converted horse stall that I use as my brooder. It can host up to 100 chicks happily. I have raised 12 chicks in there before so it can take on even the smallest of numbers. I use a heat lamp and I normally separate the side with the heat lamp from the side without so that the chicks are kept warm. I am going to be using it again in May with 50 new babies!

 

[Spartan22]

Show me your brooder set up! I’ll be getting 15 new chicks mid March, which is the most by far that I will have brooded at once so our little flimsy corrugated plastic brooder isn’t going to cut it this time. I’m not opposed to setting something up in the coop but we have 15 hens and a roo in there so that makes me a bit nervous!

Here’s my brooder that I normally use in our laundry room then move to garage when I add the “second room”. I use multiple boxes duct taped together as they grow.
On the pic this is their 2nd week so they have an extra cool room for feeds and water (notice the light is just a 7 watt LED lamp). The first box has the heat lamp for their sleeping and warming room. I brood up to 24 chicks this way till their 4th-6th wks. By adding same size boxes, making a complete 4 room square, and these were free corrugated 3x4 boxes.

 

[Animals45]

I like using 2x4 metal troughs. They are perfect! You can buy them at TRactor supply.

I agree with you.

 

[foxtrotters19]

I recommend reading this
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...rt-raising-your-chicks-outdoors.71995/?page=2

Love this article - makes sense but what if you are raising your first flock of baby chicks meaning you don't have adult chickens to show them the way if you will? I like the idea of the cardboard boxes...and coming in from the side instead of over the top. I am new to chickens and hoping to get my first 4 chicks soon. I was going to put them in a shed my original thought was to put them in the horse trailer... but my husband suggested the shed.

 

[blackdog043]

I brood in my coop with the mama heat pad and integrate at 4 weeks. I use a dog X-pen and a double door dog crate. The cardboard is the chick panic door.

 

[Ricabred]

I just built a 2x4 brooder and it's about 1 foot of the ground. I have 6 chicks - 2 Buff Orpingtons, 2 Barred Rocks, 1 Easter Egger, and 1 Rhode Island Red. They're 2 days old now. The kids decided to decorate the brooder with stickers on the outside. I use 2 100watt ceramic bulbs, and a 50watt red bulb.