Brooder?

[trappersteve]

Hey all first post on here. I have had chickens for years but this year I'm thinking about upgrading .
My question is this I want to try to raise roosters to sell and was wondering if anybody did this also . I need to build some bigger brooders and want to keep at least 1-2 hundred whitties at a time. How big should I build my brooders say for at least a hundred chicks at a time? I have some ideas in my head but wanna see What you guys think

 

[trappersteve]

I forgot to mention I plan on raising these up in stages 2 weeks into a bigger brooder as they get bigger

 

[David1998]

Welcome to BYC!

I had seen this somewhere, seemed about right to me:
day old chicks: 1/4 sqft per chick
2 week old chicks: 1/2 sqft per chick
4 week old chicks: 1 sqft per chick

From there, continue to double space when their age doubles until you get to ~8 sqft per bird.

Where do you expect to market that many roosters? It seems difficult to give them away many times.

 

[trappersteve]

Thanks David my plan was 3x4 brooder to start then a 4x8 then about a month old a 12x12 then I've got big outdoor pens after that.

And I have a buyer that sells a lot of meat market birds if I did my math right I should make $2 a bird