Producer's Pride Brooding Tower

[shedinator]

I know there was a lot of hullaballoo last year around the way chicks were being managed in these in-store last year (employees not cleaning pasty butt, mostly), but has anyone used one of these stacking brooders at home?

My first batch of meat birds arrive in 3 weeks, the standup brooder I ordered from Stromberg's back in January has just been delayed again, this time til late April, and per IncubatorWarehouse, GQF's stacking brooders have "2-3 week shipping delay." Which is cutting it a bit too close for my liking.

That basically leaves going with the producer's pride, or doing another year of chasing 3-week-old birds around my basement when they figure out how to clear the brooder wall by first jumping up on top of the waterer... So I'd love y'all's thoughts on option 1 before I resign myself to option 2

 

[springvalley123]

No experience with the brooder towers, but for chicks jumping out of the brooder,could you put a piece of corrugated plastic on the top? It's like cardboard and sold at Menards, Home Depot etc.

 

[shedinator]

No experience with the brooder towers, but for chicks jumping out of the brooder,could you put a piece of corrugated plastic on the top? It's like cardboard and sold at Menards, Home Depot etc.

I brood 100 broilers at a time, and try to give them a decent amount of space, so my current brooder setup takes up the full area I have available for brooding. I'm really wanting to go with some kind of vertical option both for ease of reaching them while they're in the brooder, and to have room for expansion.

Decided to go for the Producer's Pride option. We'll see how it goes.

 

[springvalley123]

That's great! As a backup plan, I suppose you could have a brooder lamp and bulb on hand in case the stacking brooder doesn't keep them warm enough. I once had a simple brooder/heater from Producer's Pride, and it worked great until it went completely dead after the first season.