my as yet unfinished pallet brooder

[earlyredrooster]

Total cost including gas to round up and haul the pallets, and hardware cloth, $22.78. Well not quite that much because I have already built a rabbit hutch and will have enoufh left to build a new A-frame chicken house which will be 10'×8'×8'. Even the nails were salvaged.

 

[collegegardener]

Did you just use pallets and chicken wire? Have you made any progress on it? Added any doors?

 

[earlyredrooster]

I used old pallets, a ten ft roll of hardware cloth, two old rice spills and nails that my wife insisted on straightening.
We already had the heat lamp waterer and feed trays.
It is currently housing 23 chicks all have stayed warm and dry even through two flash floods and one tornado.

 

[earlyredrooster]

Did you just use pallets and chicken wire? Have you made any progress on it? Added any doors?

I built the door to fit tight and use two bar locks at night.

 

[collegegardener]

It's an awesome design! I just got my first chicks into the coop and just used a plastic storage bin in our feed room, but it had a lot of problems. I've been looking around at designs and this caught my eye. I will definitely be building one before I brood anymore chicks.

 

[earlyredrooster]

It's an awesome design! I just got my first chicks into the coop and just used a plastic storage bin in our feed room, but it had a lot of problems. I've been looking around at designs and this caught my eye. I will definitely be building one before I brood anymore chicks.

Thanks. I am thinking of adding lawnmower wheels to it as it is VERY heavy and hard to move for cleaning and a tin roof for winter hatches.

 

[earlyredrooster]

My nesting box cost me zero dollars to build since I already had the materials.
Dimensions 22"deep 40"long sanctioned into three nests.