The most fanteggstic brooder ever!!!

[casportpony]

@Lins_BE, I love it! I look forward to seeing chicks in it.

 

[Lins_BE]

@azygous I'd love to see that window brooder. The curiosity may kill me if you don't have a picture!

I wouldn't want you to die, so here is the link to her window brooder.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...and-start-raising-your-chicks-outdoors.71995/

 

[Lins_BE]

i can’t wait to see what you can do with this! You’ll never have chicks scared spitless when, as my friend @azygous puts it so well, these “disembodied heads and hands come at them out of nowhere”. She had a super setup using a big bay window at one time! Your chicks see you, become accustomed to you coming and going, and you’ll have a blast watching them. Just get some ventilation in there!

I'll be putting it outside under a porch, I might install a ventilator in there, pushing air from the inside to the outside at the opposite corner of the "wind pipe". Would that work?

 

[Blooie]

If you can do it without any direct draft on the chicks it might. Passive ventilation, just an exchange of stale air with fresh, is best but with such great “bones” to start building from that shouldn’t be too complicated.

In the photo that @Kiki marked to show possible ventilation, is that a sliding panel on the front? I would assume that such a well built habitat would have a way to access the entire thing for cleaning. I enlarged the photo but macular degeneration makes it hard for me to pick out details like that. If that is a sliding panel, there’s your answer. Simply leave it open and screen it in, similar to the “front“ that @azygous used for her window brooder.

 

[Lins_BE]

If you can do it without any direct draft on the chicks it might. Passive ventilation, just an exchange of stale air with fresh, is best but with such great “bones” to start building from that shouldn’t be too complicated.

In the photo that @Kiki marked to show possible ventilation, is that a sliding panel on the front? I would assume that such a well built habitat would have a way to access the entire thing for cleaning. I enlarged the photo but macular degeneration makes it hard for me to pick out details like that. If that is a sliding panel, there’s your answer. Simply leave it open and screen it in, similar to the “front“ that @azygous used for her window brooder.

Yes, it is a sliding panel. I would however be concerned that predators could access it with just that screening. We have foxes, weasels and rats.

 

[Blooie]

Yep, that’s an issue. Okay, back to brainstorming.

 

[janiedoe]

I wouldn't want you to die, so here is the link to her window brooder.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...and-start-raising-your-chicks-outdoors.71995/

Thank you! I enjoyed reading that. I hope you have good luck with your new chicks & your new brooder.

 

[Lins_BE]

Yep, that’s an issue. Okay, back to brainstorming.

I’ll upload some more pictures when I go get it. It will probably be easyer to see what’s best. Maybe he already has something inqtalled in there..