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Good morning everyone! Hope you are all having a wonderful day.
Thank you to everyone for the brooder ideas. I will post a pic of what I have later but I also have 25' of 1/4" wire I ordered by accident (meant to get 1/2" wire) so I could build one also. 🤔🤔
I love designing and building things so I'll probably end up doing that! Lol

I actually have three coop designs I'm debating on and a couple of quail cage designs also. I like the coop I have. It's big and sturdy and so far shown to be predator-proof. But I'm not 100% happy with the overall design. Would change it up if I was rebuilding it today.

When you make a thread for your hatching progress....please link it. I know I would like to follow along.

I have only ever hatched ducks and geese.....well actually the adult ducks and geese did all the work and that was decades ago.
X's 2 on putting a link here to your thread. I use cut down cardboard boxes. I have a lot of them saved from moving and getting new appliances. My husband kept looking at me funny when I would save them. Yesterday, he went and got the big box his lawnmower came in and brought it over -- "This is a better box for the new chicks". He sits out there watching the hatchery chicks, for hours hooked on chicken TV. Here is a photo of the swamp cooler box brooder set up.View attachment 2209937
I swung open the sides to enlarge it. The small area under the heater is the original size. They have an area about 4x8 along the back half of the shed under the loft area.

Here it is. I made it last night.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/dans-incubation-and-hatching-thread.1390360/#post-22822138
 
Good morning folks :frow

Well, I got the news yesterday... When Sue get's out of the Hospital she'll be transferred to a rehab facility. Anywhere from 4 days to 4 weeks. It will just depend on how long it takes her to connect the dots between her brain and feet. She can stand on her own, but is struggling with getting her feet to do what she wants. They removed the feed tube last night and a bunch of her IVs yesterday. Hopefully her drain will come out tomorrow. her numbers continue to be great. Also she's spending her days in the chair rather than the bed.
That's awesome news!
I'll keep praying for her! Glad to hear how she is recovering.
 
That is very nice! Do you take it apart & store it when you are not using it? Or, are you always using it? ;)

That one stays put together. ;)
It works as a brooder, recovery cage for anyone with a boo boo, transport crate for processing, introduction cage and such.

If I were to have an ill bird....they would NOT get to use this one unless I were very very confident it was nothing contagious.
I had 2 of them but storing both was kind of a pain.

I also use the run pieces from my broody coop for many things. This does break down. Everything is bolts and wing nuts.
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Attached to he broody coop (made from scraps)

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The run alone sitting in the yard in November. I attached the old lid from the 2nd brooder/transport crate s a 4th side. River had used this as her safe puppy potty spot when tiny. Now my sons puppy is using it for her puppy potty/containment box.

Nope not letting a pup loose anywhere near my birds. Nope, nope, nope. Even though my birds are contained I don't want them spooked.

My tip for these things....make them consistent. All mine are 2' tall and either 4', 6', or 8' in length. It makes things versitile.
 
That one stays put together. ;)
It works as a brooder, recovery cage for anyone with a boo boo, transport crate for processing, introduction cage and such.

If I were to have an ill bird....they would NOT get to use this one unless I were very very confident it was nothing contagious.
I had 2 of them but storing both was kind of a pain.

I also use the run pieces from my broody coop for many things. This does break down. Everything is bolts and wing nuts.
View attachment 2210084
Attached to he broody coop (made from scraps)

View attachment 2210087
The run alone sitting in the yard in November. I attached the old lid from the 2nd brooder/transport crate s a 4th side. River had used this as her safe puppy potty spot when tiny. Now my sons puppy is using it for her puppy potty/containment box.

Nope not letting a pup loose anywhere near my birds. Nope, nope, nope. Even though my birds are contained I don't want them spooked.

My tip for these things....make them consistent. All mine are 2' tall and either 4', 6', or 8' in length. It makes things versitile.
Very nice multi-purpose little run! I am using those boxes because I can throw them away and I have so many. You can not have too many cages! Dylan has 4 for herself alone, and never to be shared with sick chicks!
 
Good morning peeps!:frow
:frow Good morning Alex, have a great day
That is a serious brooder set up. Is the pipe the water for lots of drinking nipples? Do those work for ducks?
Yes and Yes/no. The ducks will drink from them but I still add a 3 gallon waterer for them to clean out their nares. I have nice level wooden rounds that I stack up to put the waterer on as one batch of ducks can go through up to 8" of bedding.
Good morning everyone! Hope you are all having a wonderful day.
Thank you to everyone for the brooder ideas. I will post a pic of what I have later but I also have 25' of 1/4" wire I ordered by accident (meant to get 1/2" wire) so I could build one also. 🤔🤔
I love designing and building things so I'll probably end up doing that! Lol

I actually have three coop designs I'm debating on and a couple of quail cage designs also. I like the coop I have. It's big and sturdy and so far shown to be predator-proof. But I'm not 100% happy with the overall design. Would change it up if I was rebuilding it today.




Here it is. I made it last night.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/dans-incubation-and-hatching-thread.1390360/#post-22822138
:frow Good morning Daniel, have a great day and thanks.
 
:frow Good morning Alex, have a great day
Yes and Yes/no. The ducks will drink from them but I still add a 3 gallon waterer for them to clean out their nares. I have nice level wooden rounds that I stack up to put the waterer on as one batch of ducks can go through up to 8" of bedding.

:frow Good morning Daniel, have a great day and thanks.
Thanks. It's starting out pretty good so far! :ya
 
Very nice multi-purpose little run! I am using those boxes because I can throw them away and I have so many. You can not have too many cages! Dylan has 4 for herself alone, and never to be shared with sick chicks!

I love having things with more than one purpose.

It is super crazy but in all my years raising chicks I have only ever had to deal with pasty butt in shipped chicks. Neverba sick chick. I have only ever lost 2 out of about 200 I have raised. Both were weak to begin with.
As for adult chickens....mites just once, coccidiosis just once, egg binding a few times, internal laying a few times and one that in her advanced age went blind.
I read so many threads where people lose bird after bird after bird and am very sad for them.
 
I love having things with more than one purpose.

It is super crazy but in all my years raising chicks I have only ever had to deal with pasty butt in shipped chicks. Neverba sick chick. I have only ever lost 2 out of about 200 I have raised. Both were weak to begin with.
As for adult chickens....mites just once, coccidiosis just once, egg binding a few times, internal laying a few times and one that in her advanced age went blind.
I read so many threads where people lose bird after bird after bird and am very sad for them.
I was lucky to only have one with pasted butt and only for the day after they got here. I think good attention when they first arrive helps a lot. And, it is so hot here that I give them a ton of room in the brooder to spread out and be away from the heater. More exercise, grass and dirt in the brooder give them something to do besides stress out and pick on each other. Sometimes those with sick birds were also wanting to know how many can fit in a Tractor Supply coop! :hmm
 
Good morning everyone! Hope you are all having a wonderful day.
Thank you to everyone for the brooder ideas. I will post a pic of what I have later but I also have 25' of 1/4" wire I ordered by accident (meant to get 1/2" wire) so I could build one also. 🤔🤔
I love designing and building things so I'll probably end up doing that! Lol

I actually have three coop designs I'm debating on and a couple of quail cage designs also. I like the coop I have. It's big and sturdy and so far shown to be predator-proof. But I'm not 100% happy with the overall design. Would change it up if I was rebuilding it today.




Here it is. I made it last night.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/dans-incubation-and-hatching-thread.1390360/#post-22822138
The 1/4" hardware cloth is what I used in the bottom of quail brooders.
 

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