Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder (Picture Heavy) - UPDATE

[alibabba]

Shucks can't find the OP who talked about a kerosene lamp but..

Just saw a "how to" online for 3rd world countries...heating for the brooder was a hurricane lamp with a wire cage...

How did they do it in Jesus's time.? So if the power goes out and you can watch over it.. why not?


I have to drive an hour tomorrow morning and be gone all day...if there is one pip under my broody, I'm bringing her cat litter nest box along!

 

[perchie.girl]

Shucks can't find the OP who talked about a kerosene lamp but..

Just saw a "how to" online for 3rd world countries...heating for the brooder was a hurricane lamp with a wire cage...

How did they do it in Jesus's time.? So if the power goes out and you can watch over it.. why not?


I have to drive an hour tomorrow morning and be gone all day...if there is one pip under my broody, I'm bringing her cat litter nest box along!

That would be me... and in Jesus time they used broodies... They make kerosine heated brooders. But it could just as easily be a Rocket mass heater.... its a job to build but they burn twigs and grass and logs... I would love to convert my house to one....

Look em up sometime.... amazing things. The heat exchanger can be run along a wall and provides seating for people.... nice warm on chilly days seating....

deb

 

[bruceha2000]

I have just finished my Mama Cave, made out of a wire dish drying rack that you have on the side of the kitchen sink...got it from the Dollar Market.
I cut all the side wires except the ones at the front (large opening), bent it down to get the slope, and wired it in place to stop it springing back...taped all the cut wires and bent the dish supports flat.
Have my heating pad on order from Amazon and the Glad Press 'n Seal for the towel.
I am incubating right now, and lockdown is 21st, so hopefully my chicks will have a nice warm cave waiting for them instead of the heat lamp.
Incidentally those 250 amp heater bulbs are expensive to use 24/7...I was shocked when I saw my electric bill

Brilliant Mike!

Since you bent the dish holders down, if one didn't want to cut and tape I suspect the back and sides could be bent out, more at the back, not at all in the front. Wouldn't look quite as tidy of course. If there is a problem with chicks getting stuck in the wire sides, I think you could just tape appropriately shaped pieces of cardboard to the inside.

And doggone it, I forgot what I came here to yell about!! Got our first egg from one of the Littles today!!!! Can you believe it??? Already! Just a little teeny dark brown pullet egg! Not sure which Little laid it, though I have two suspects! Seems like I was just posting their baby pictures and videos here yesterday! Also put the 3 RIR roosters in the fridge, waiting a few days to bag and freeze them. I wasn't expecting much meat on them but was very pleasantly surprised. They grew up so fast!

You sure Ken didn't find another "egg"

Sounds complicated.....but you know me...KISS.
I sized my rack and cover to fit the pad, I will be curious to see how he fits the pad on that rack(which seems brilliant).

Ummm...DUST!! sorry JK.
But they will find a place to dust bathe....or you can provide a pan with some sand, dirt, wood ashes, peat moss...they really just need some dirt.

Mine will dust bathe in dirt out in the gardens where they hang under the bushes in the hotter parts of the day when the sun is high. They will also do it in the shavings in the run. Of course there seems to be no end to the amount of dust in the barn, coats everything, so the shavings are full of dust as well. It is AMAZING how much they can "store" in their feathers during a dust bath. Stand back when they shake it out, they are as effective at spraying dirt as a wet dog is at spraying water. Even the chicks were taking dust baths in those shavings at 2 weeks old.

Shucks can't find the OP who talked about a kerosene lamp but..

Just saw a "how to" online for 3rd world countries...heating for the brooder was a hurricane lamp with a wire cage...

How did they do it in Jesus's time.? So if the power goes out and you can watch over it.. why not?

I suspect in Jesus' time, they had hens brooding their chicks. I don't think their power ever goes out.

 

[Beekissed]

http://www.worldpoultry.net/Breeder...ans-hatch-eggs-the-traditional-way-WP008725W/

When I was researching ways of incubating without using an incubator, prior to doing it with a heating pad in a natural nest, I had found an article on how they did it in a third world country(can't remember which one now and can't find it any longer). They hatched large numbers of eggs by placing them in layers of heated bags of rice, the rice being heated by the sun. They switched those out three times a day, each day. Said they had a wonderful hatch rate. The bags of rice were layered one layer on top of another for several layers. You'd think the eggs at the bottom would be crushed under the weight but they weren't.

 

[mojavemike1]

Bruceha2000...

I guess it could be done, but that wire is exceptionally strong...pushing the dish holders down took some effort...straightening them out to make the cave wider would certainly be a task.

 

[perchie.girl]

http://www.worldpoultry.net/Breeder...ans-hatch-eggs-the-traditional-way-WP008725W/

When I was researching ways of incubating without using an incubator, prior to doing it with a heating pad in a natural nest, I had found an article on how they did it in a third world country(can't remember which one now and can't find it any longer). They hatched large numbers of eggs by placing them in layers of heated bags of rice, the rice being heated by the sun. They switched those out three times a day, each day. Said they had a wonderful hatch rate. The bags of rice were layered one layer on top of another for several layers. You'd think the eggs at the bottom would be crushed under the weight but they weren't.

As a structured product Egg shells are perfectly designed to handle tremendous amount of weight evenly applied..... They truely are a miracle....

remember the force pushing up is equal to the force pushing down.... thus evenly applied. As long as the egg is cushioned with a weight distributing material like the paper cloths...

Amazing stuff.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Bruceha2000...

I guess it could be done, but that wire is exceptionally strong...pushing the dish holders down took some effort...straightening them out to make the cave wider would certainly be a task.

If you need it wider just do two dish strainers.... end to end.... then make their access in the middle.

WRT the worry of peeps getting caught you could just cover the wire with that press and seal stuff.... But those ends have such wide bars the littleuns can go right through them...

deb

 

[mojavemike1]

The heating pad would be up against the bars, so the chicks wouldn't be able to go thru', but in any case it would be an easy fix for peace of mind.

 

[lazy gardener]

Newbie here.
What can I provide my chickens with, so they may take dust baths???

In the brooder or in the run? In the run, I just let them dig their moonscapes.

You know, this dish drainer frame is almost custom made for the heating pad to go on the inside rather than draped on the outside. Lots of places for the little bungie cords to grip to hold it in place, and then tuck the entire ensemble inside a soft pillowcase. Anyone else see that possibility here?

Brilliant Mike!

Since you bent the dish holders down, if one didn't want to cut and tape I suspect the back and sides could be bent out, more at the back, not at all in the front. Wouldn't look quite as tidy of course. If there is a problem with chicks getting stuck in the wire sides, I think you could just tape appropriately shaped pieces of cardboard to the inside.


You sure Ken didn't find another "egg"

Mine will dust bathe in dirt out in the gardens where they hang under the bushes in the hotter parts of the day when the sun is high. They will also do it in the shavings in the run. Of course there seems to be no end to the amount of dust in the barn, coats everything, so the shavings are full of dust as well. It is AMAZING how much they can "store" in their feathers during a dust bath. Stand back when they shake it out, they are as effective at spraying dirt as a wet dog is at spraying water. Even the chicks were taking dust baths in those shavings at 2 weeks old.


I suspect in Jesus' time, they had hens brooding their chicks. I don't think their power ever goes out.

I've read that in Jesus time, the (Egyptians, I believe) were incubating eggs in huge walk in incubators that were tended by employees/slaves. They would stoke the furnace to maintain the correct temp without any thermometers. They were trained to "know" what the right temp felt like.

Mike, as Blooie suggested, I also recommend that you enclose your whole wire/heating pad assembly in a pillow case, or otherwise wrap it to prevent chicks from getting stuck in the wires. I had an old dish drainer that I tried to convert, but the wire was brittle, and kept snapping. Wonderful design.

 

[BarredCometLaced]

My 7 girls are doing great at six weeks thanks to their awesome start with the MHP! I will never go back to the lamp