Let me see your outdoor chick brooders!

[Kennas_Kritters]

I would like to see everyones outdoor chick brooders! I am working on making more for my 80 chicks I'm raising! Please post pictures below and how many chicks it can hold! The easier to make the better!

 

[Matejka]

Im in central texaas. I use an exlarge dog crate lined with cardboard. It held 12 beautifully (or more). After about 2 weeks I removed cardboard and moved crate to Coop for integration. Laid crate on side without tray (bottom holes are bigger and at 4 weeks I removed crate. My 12 are healthy and active at 7 weeks, integrated with flock.

 

[TropicalBabies]

This is my first brooder I made with what little scrap materials I had on hand. Had to beef it up a few years ago, added door and 1/2" welded wire.
I love this thing as it is mobile and I can drag it like a tractor and don't must the lawn. And also as a intro.
I have a puka in the top middle so I can attach a heat lamp or heating pad. Both lids raise for easy access. I also made another 2x4 frame so I can raise it up.
I have it with me while I am enjoying cool weather at the cabin now. I tossed a light blanket ontop to keep any cold breezes off the babies, raised it and have a lamp in there for a bit. I will switch t ok heating pad shortly but we are only on day 4 and it is in the 60's up here.

This one is my main brooder and partial grow out. It is located in the garden and a shared space and faces the run. I have housed bigger chicks in the lower brooder and they enjoy freerange and intro with big chooks in garden. I am in a warm climate but you may be able to glean something to work for you.

 

[3KillerBs]

Here's mine: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/run-to-outdoor-brooder-conversion.76634/

I had 25 chicks in it, which got a little challenging santitation-wise by their week-4 integration because it was a wet fall and, at the time, it had no floor.

Theoretically it could hold more, but I don't like to have to catch and contain all the chicks to change bedding and so prefer to keep a number that is OK with just spot-cleaning and adding more bedding.

 

[SandyRiverChick]

This was easy because I just combined an old dog house and a cheapie pre-fab and built a little run with roof on one side to be predator proof. It holds as many chicks as I want but wow 80, would be a lot of cleanup. I think I agree that 25 would be max for this space, even though you could do more. I'd have to have several MHP's for 80...

 

[TropicalBabies]

This was easy because I just combined an old dog house and a cheapie pre-fab and built a little run with roof on one side to be predator proof. It holds as many chicks as I want but wow 80, would be a lot of cleanup. I think I agree that 25 would be max for this space, even though you could do more. I'd have to have several MHP's for 80...
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This is seriously awesome! I see you have installed an owl of some sort on the roof. Brilliant lol

 

[SandyRiverChick]

This is seriously awesome! I see you have installed an owl of some sort on the roof. Brilliant lol

Awe thank you!! It's a big metal Rooster. It does seem to work. I live on River with ton's of Eagles, Hawks, Owls. Thankfully they seem to prefer Salmon dinner, not Chicken.

 

[Auntiejessi3]

This is my in coop brooder, isolation area, and whatever else it needs to be, lol. It's 2x7 built out of some 1x2's and 1inch chicken wire, cheap and easy.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Including mine just because it's outdoors, though it's too small for the numbers you want and/or I'm a lot more generous with space. It's just under 9 sq ft, 4 chicks is the most I've had in there: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/short-on-time-recycle-a-prefab-brooder.73985/