Pullet coop bottom

[dustin1025]

Then you need a more serious structure than wire ziptied to PVC. Or some electric poultry netting to create a safe space for a light pen.

This is my Outdoor Brooder: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/run-to-outdoor-brooder-conversion.76634/

Thank you for the pictures and some inspiration! They are almost a month old now. It’s just 3 of them in a pop up tent on my screened back porch. It’s nice out and would rather them spend most of the day outside. I guess I could make a run and just keep bringing them back in at night. It would just be easier to leave them out, but yeah not thinking the PVC frame will work at night.

 

[dustin1025]

Then you need a more serious structure than wire ziptied to PVC. Or some electric poultry netting to create a safe space for a light pen.

This is my Outdoor Brooder: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/run-to-outdoor-brooder-conversion.76634/

What about something like this inside the PVC run? I see these and like old rabbit hutches for sale around me. If I could find a good price I could fix it up.

 

[3KillerBs]

What about something like this inside the PVC run? I see these and like old rabbit hutches for sale around me. If I could find a good price I could fix it up. View attachment 2704396

How many chicks? And how old are they?

 

[dustin1025]

How many chicks? And how old are they?

3 Jersey Giants. I am thinking one is a cockerel. They will be 1 month in a couple days.

 

[3KillerBs]

3 Jersey Giants. I am thinking one is a cockerel. They will be 1 month in a couple days.

IIRC, that should mean allowing 2 square feet each in their brooder space so if the rabbit hutch is at least 2x3 it should be good for a while.

I've still got my 8-week-olds sleeping in a large dog crate while DH finishes building the new coop.