Outdoor Brooders

[FluffTheDuck]

Thank you!!! Is this inside a garage or something though? Love the ideas! Thank you so much! Are you not worried about the heat lamp making the roof wood to hot? Or is it not wooden?

It is inside the coop and it doesn't get the wood hot because it is too far away. I have had an incident where the heat lamp broke but none got killed and you can always use a heat pad.

 

[LearninMyFlock]

Mine's truly outdoors, as I don't have room in the coop for it.
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Here's the accompanying article with more info: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/short-on-time-recycle-a-prefab-brooder.73985/

THANK YOU!!! Was sure I could find something but I'm so not good at navigating technology. I will look at this and probably combine ideas that I'm getting. Thank you so much!!

 

[LearninMyFlock]

It is inside the coop and it doesn't get the wood hot because it is too far away. I have had an incident where the heat lamp broke but none got killed and you can always use a heat pad.

Thank you!!

 

[sumi]

@azygous has a wonderful set-up for brooding chicks outdoors too:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...and-start-raising-your-chicks-outdoors.71995/

 

[sumi]

And @Blooie has some ideas here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/yes-you-certainly-can-brood-chicks-outdoors.68067/

 

[21hens-incharge]

This is multi use.
I use it in the big coop as a brooder, to take pullets to swaps, as a hospital spot in the coop, and for a see but no touch introduction cage in the coop.

 

[LeoPig]

I kept my 6 chicks inside and started putting them outside in a smallish dog crate for a few hours a day at 2 weeks. Then, around 4 weeks I let them stay outside in a large dog crate almost all day, but they slept inside. Now, at 6 weeks they are outside in the big dog crate untill we finish the coop.

 

[SpaceLamb]

Not sure if you're still looking for ideas and ours isn't a permanent brooder but we just dragged an XL dog crate out into our coop and used a MHP to keep them warm. So far it's worked really well for us and once they outgrow the crate we'll just collapse it and give them the full run of the coop.

 

[Kessel23]

I will post some pictures when I get home.

 

[Shadrach]

This is the best outdoor brooder there is.
Nothing to build, she sat and hatched in the coop. No heat pad required. No special drinkers or feeders and she gets the protection of her mother and her mothers tribe.
The chick is three days old.