Metal Stock Tank Brooder

[Alex S]

A very popular brooder I have found is a metal stock tank. Anybody (mainly Washington folk) know where to get one?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

We got ours at tsc. I think it's a 100 gallin. It's about 2x4x3 (wxlxh)

 

[DaisyG2317]

A very popular brooder I have found is a metal stock tank. Anybody (mainly Washington folk) know where to get one?

North sound WA here, welcome!

You can get the stock tanks at Coastal, Country Store, Tractor Supply, Cenex. Home Depot has them too. I got mine at TSC but Coastal had them cheaper after I got mine

 

[Alex S]

We got ours at tsc. I think it's a 100 gallin. It's about 2x4x3 (wxlxh)

Thanks! How did you keep your chicks safe/ keeping them from flying away though?

 

[rosemarythyme]

Thanks! How did you keep your chips safe/ keeping them from flying away though?

I assume you mean chicks, not chips?

This is a really nice cover for a stock tank https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ock-tank-brooder.1377214/page-2#post-22635215 but you could make do with hardware cloth duct taped into place around the edges or something.

I should add, if you don't already have chickens in the coop, coops make fantastic brooders since they're obviously built to protect the occupants, and it removes the whole "transitioning outside" aspect.

 

[DaisyG2317]

How did you keep your chicks safe/ keeping them from flying away though?

I know this question wasn't to me, but my husband and I took some leftover plastic hardware cloth and rolled it around the tank and then zipped tied the ends together to make a makeshift "cage". Was about...4 feet tall, maybe 3? No one ever flew out.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Ours is in our basement during chick season. We had a lamp and a piece of plywood we used as a lid, keeping iron just enough to stabilize the temperaturewhen they didn't need it quite as hot, we switched the wood with a wire screen so they couldn't fly out

Thanks! How did you keep your chicks safe/ keeping them from flying away though?

 

[Alex S]

I assume you mean chicks, not chips?

This is a really nice cover for a stock tank https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ock-tank-brooder.1377214/page-2#post-22635215 but you could make do with hardware cloth duct taped into place around the edges or something.

I should add, if you don't already have chickens in the coop, coops make fantastic brooders since they're obviously built to protect the occupants, and it removes the whole "transitioning outside" aspect.

I meant chicks, but I dont want my potato chips flying away anytime soon!