Want to make a nice brooder

[dustponds10]

Well I am wanting to start hatching quite a few eggs and I am also wanting to have a nice brooder for my chick to grow in. I am looking for some links to DIY brooders but I am tired of searching through all the pages of stuff. I am wanting the kind that I can hang the feeders and waters on the outside if possible. If you could please point me in the right direction that would be awesome. Thanks in advance.

 

[Celtic Hill]

You could use a Metal Stock Tank like this they work great and hold the heat!

 

[mistyfeather]

you can do what i did if you have room. we built a 4x4 wood box. a board over head can hold the feeder and waterer. it worked great. was easy to clean. i put chicken wire on top with a door that opens from the top, we also made a panel on the front that opens so we could also use it as a growing out coop

like a 2 stage brooder ( like the baby cribs they make now that can be used in 3 stages)

it holds 18 chicks to 8 weeks with no problems , we moved them , with it to a baby run at 6 weeks

 

[dustponds10]

anyway you could post pictures of the brooder that you built? I have all kinds of room.
I really dont want to spend that much on it so the galvanized stock feeder is out but it is a great idea, it is exactly what out Cal ranch store does.

 

[catdaddy66]

There is a killer thread on this forum about brooders w/ fabulous photos of most of them. I know it was the first very long thread that I completely viewed. There hundreads of pages and over a thousand responses. Well worth a search!

 

[Papadavid]

Computer acting up, redid post.

 

[Papadavid]

I built one out of a dresser. 4' long, 3' wide and 18" deep. Put a plywood top on the back2', covered the rest with chicken wire. I put a roost in it for the chicks. I put chicken wire on the bottom, but changed my mind and put the backof the dresser on the wire to hold the shavings. 2 doors with chicken wir in front allows access and cleaning. I use bricks to set the food and water on. Works great for me. I also put it on 2' legs, no bending.