Where do you keep your brooders?

[SundownWaterfowl]

I was wondering where everybody keeps their brooders? I have 2 that I keep in the garage until the chicks are around 4 weeks old. Then I have 2 wire brooders I keep outside that the chicks get moved into. All of my brooders have wire floors. I prefer that because the poop just falls through and the brooders stay cleaner.

So, where do you keep your brooders?

 

[crazyaboutchickens]

Mine's are always in the kitchen. i don't know why but i suppose it's my favorite spot .

 

[RL]

I have what I like to call a Coop with in a Coop. My brooder is out in my main Coop and it has it's own pop door out to its own small run. It seems to work out well and the older chicken seem to like to watch the little ones run around.

 

[HerbiLady]

Oh jeez ~ I've been wondering whether to confess this or not.

We bought an old travel trailer to fix up really cheap this past winter...a 25' Ideal that's about 30 years old. It was $600.00. Couldn't say no and we are getting WAY too old for tent camping, lemme tell ya!

Good shape but cosmetically challenged and we're in the process of tearing out the whole bathroom. Sooooo, I put my brooder up on top of the spot where you take out the cushions and the table and make a bed up front. It's actually perfect...no predator worries, no cat worries, I have an electric heater in there, electricity for my lamps, lots of natural light and ventilation and it's easy to clean

I feel like a total redneck right about now though. Oh, wait. I am a redneck!!

 

[toletiquesbysam]

I kept mine in the garage.

 

[Katy]

Depends on the time of year. Winter they're in the basement, then they move out to the garage and then on out to brooders in the coops. This time of year they go out to the garage after the first couple of days. In the heat of summer they go directly to the brooders in the coop.

 

[organicchef]

That was an excellent idea!!! And what's wrong with being a redneck!? Gotta love em!!

 

[onthespot]

spare bedroom. Tarp on the floor, six different cages or boxes for different groups, depending on combpatibility, warmth needs. I would tear it all down and do it over, but I won't. I am probably nearly done incubating ina month anyhow. NEXT year I will do it all differently.

 

[duckyfromoz]

For about the first week my babies are beside my bed... Then they go into the lounge room unitl 4-6 weeks old when they can go outside... I just love to have them close by me.....

 

[HerbiLady]

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Aww, how nice are you? Actually, I'm pretty settled into my redneckedness at this point in my life. And thank you, it really is a totally awesome idea IMHO!

I could NOT see 30 chicks in my under-construction 1200 square foot house with a cat and a pug. Nightmares! And my garage is not heated nor secure enough.

But, for a minute there, I was actually considering using this old Ford Aerostar van as a chicken tractor. My husband doesn't have as much redneck breeding as I do and he was, um, a bit UNCOMFORTABLE with that. What the heck...you wouldn't be able to see it from the road and the thing still runs and I could store the feed up front and paint chickens on the side of it and ....... ahem.

This is the threat I use to keep the DH motivated to build the chicken coop within the next couple of weeks. "You know...we could use the van...."