My son and I built this mobile brooder last weekend. We have been wanting to move our brooding process outdoors to have more room for quite some time now and we went to work on it Friday and finished late Friday night.
The only thing we lack is to give it a shiny new coat of paint to protect the wood. The actual floor of the brooder is 14 inches off the ground and the Brooder is on wheels. the walls go way past the floor almost to the ground to keep down the draft from underneath.
The whole top opens together and is fairly light, but it latches when closed to prevent tampering from predators. This Brooder fertilizes my yard while brooding LOL
Pictured are my 10 Plymouth rock chicks( two weeks old) enjoying a little early morning heat from the heat lamp. I plan on adding light switches in each compartment and lights that are permanantly mounted on the back wall or the lid one of the two and a cord coming from the back of the brooder to kinda clean it up a little. I would like to be able to burn multiple lights without multiple cords. The brooder is 3 foot by 10 foot and will brood approximately 60-70 chicks until 4 weeks of age easily.
The only thing we lack is to give it a shiny new coat of paint to protect the wood. The actual floor of the brooder is 14 inches off the ground and the Brooder is on wheels. the walls go way past the floor almost to the ground to keep down the draft from underneath.
