Where do you keep your brooders?

[Ms. Cluckingly]

Mine is in my family room, so we can all enjoy them. They are currently in their "double wide", which is a HUGE dog crate ducktaped to a large wardrobe box with the lamp attached to the dog crate. They fly out of it all the time, so now I cover the top with an old screen.

I've got 5 in there (and picking up another tomorrow).

 

[catdaddy66]

I have mine in the spare bedroom, much to my wife's dismay...

and now I have half as many as before (12 vs. 25) so they will not be as crowded.

 

[SimplySplendidSilkies]

My chicks are in the bedroom with me. Around 10 every night when I shut off the lights they do the who gets the bottom spot shuffle. So insanely funny, I am really going to miss that when they are outside.

 

[sgtmom52]

My 15 four week olds are in a large (3' x 7') treadmill box in the basement. ~ soon to be moved to the pole building so I can move the 17 one week olds out of the plastic tote into the treadmill box.

 

[ADozenGirls]

We keep ours in the garage in the warmer weather. This winter we kept two batches of chicks in the basement. NEVER AGAIN!!! It snowed the most dusty, nasty chick mess upon EVERYTHING in the basement, including the insulation in the ceiling. No more babies in the winter!

 

[chicknerd]

Mine are in a container in the laundry room bathroom. I can close the door and no dust in the rest of the house. We still get sub freezing temps at night so we can keep them warm.

Plus then Lesiel can see 'her babies.'

Deb

 

[Why and Dotte]

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That would be so cool.

I keep mine in my coop in a dog cage with a rabbit cage add on, that way the chicks and hens can all see eachother and "free time" is easier, just let them out.

 

[gritsar]

My first batch of chicks arrived in April, 2007. They were in DH's harley shed (the harley was in the living room - don't ask

) for two weeks and then the chicks, their brooder and the draft guard were moved to the screened porch for the duration. They ended up spending the first five months of their lives on the screened porch because we couldn't get the coop done. Nothing like baby roosters crowing under your bedroom window.
This time around I'm waiting until June to get chicks. They'll be on the screened porch from day one and I'll probably move them into the coop, seperated from the big'uns, by week three; depending on the weather.

 

[zatsdeb]

we keep ours in the Den, where we spend all our time, it is a big wooden converted bird cage, made with welded wire and plexiglas around the sides and back, and our tv sits on top of it. Sometimes we would rather watch the chicks or turkeys or whatever we have hatched at the time until they are big enough to move to the outside nursery, and new chicks can go in the big bird cage brooder!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Ironically enough, on the dining room table.

Seriously, I don't use the dining room and it is an area I have to walk through to get to any other part of the house. I can see them and hear them. It's very dusty, but I can live with that.
I do move them outside to a grow out pen at 3-4 weeks. I kept the silkies inside for months due to freaky winter weather. It got pretty stinky, but I didn't have any other option. If I had a garage I would likely have the whole thing converted into giant brooder pens.