Pack and play brooder

Hello everyone! I had several ideas about what to do for a brooder, then read someone's post about how they might use a dog crate ..... *ding!*..... we had...

Keeping backyard chickens in a suburban environment is becoming more and more commonplace. Many families in suburban neighborhoods are finding out that chickens are perfectly suited to living in backyards and semi-urban areas. We are fortunate to live on some acreage and don’t have to worry about some of the same issues that come up when...

Pack n play brooder

Baby brooder. :)

Chick brooder using 2 35 gallon storage bins. In the middle is a plastic Easter egg bucket we cut and made to be the tunnel to go back and forth. Brooder plate with feathers is on the right. Food/water & play time on the left.

Brooder box

Pack n play brooder

Pack n play converted to coop for baby chicks.

Hello all, I’m curious what everyone uses for chick bedding in the brooder. I built a brooder inside my coop which is covered with just pine shavings...

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CRIB BROODER 2016 [See Brooder DIY page for container-type brooder] March 8, 2016 The Crib Brooder Project is underway as we have a beautiful spring-like day in the 70s to work. The free baby crib had been disassembled and the metal piece, which depressed to lower the crib side was removed. The sides and end pieces of the crib were fastened together with wood screws, washers and bolts as needed, using the factory holes in the metal corner pieces. To support the floor, brace pieces across the…

Ok, so here we are, completely new to this BackYard Chickens thing! We are picking up our first little flock in a week or so, but first we needed to get a brooder ready for our babies. We didn't want to use cardboard because we wanted something...

Duck brooder

Here is how I started with my 30 keets two weeks ago. It's an XL wire dog crate with cardboard around the edges. I used puppy pads for the first week then...

In the first week, I kept them in the smaller brooder seen in the back corner. It is easier to keep warm in the early days. After a week, they went in the...

Our DIY chick brooder is cheap and easy to make. It took me less than 10 minutes to put ours together and get our new chicks all set up. We’ll update week to...

Our first we were clueless and they lived in this cardboard box with newspaper which I changed every 3 hours. They escaped a lot... Then we put them in the...

I am learning what every first-time chicken keeper knows: chickens grow fast. At three weeks old, our 6 birds had outgrown their rubbermaid brooder. They were getting a bit too excited about their