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Brooder Extension DIY Scrap Lumber
Helllllo! I just wanted to share my brooder extension for my 8 ladies who are going on their 5th week. It's made of all scrap materials from our coop build, and a set of end tables we were going to...
View ArticleHomemade brooder/Hatcher
This simple idea has done such a great job I thought I’d share! My husband built this large wooden crate box for brooding the baby ducks/chickens. There’s a divider inside just for incubator/hatching...
View ArticleHow I made a Mama Heating Pad Plate
I love this method of raising chicks. It has worked so well for my last two small broods, and those babies have grown up happy, healthy and well-adjusted members of the flock. This version is probably...
View ArticleHomemade Brooder
Just a quick post to show how I simply made my brooder, for anyone wanting ideas. This is my first rodeo so I googled a few pictures and came up with what I think is an ideal example of a brooder. It’s...
View ArticleDIY Cheap Cabinet Incubator, NO LIGHT BULBS
Hello All!! This spring I have attempted to start a mini hatchery. It has been largely successful, but it took hours of trial, and error to start it. Last year, I got a Hova Bator 1602n for my...
View ArticleHarris Farms Nurture Right 360 Incubator (Updated)
I originally posted this in the "Incubating & Hatching Eggs" forum and it was recommended to me that I should make it an article. I have updated this article with my hatch rates, helpful photos, as...
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DIY Storage Tote Quail/Chick Brooder
I built 3 brooders last year and I have brooded?! over 300 quail in them so far. They have worked great... Here's what I used: HDX 55 gallon storage tote $25 Two light bulb sockets $2 each Extension...
View ArticleKeeping my wood brooder floor dry.
Greeting from the The Quack Shack! I'd like to give all credit to the great people here at BYC for this. What is working for me is just a collection of recycled ideas from other users. I'm relatively...
View ArticleOur repurposed aquarium brooder
We found this aquarium for $50 on Kijiji. Before, we were using cardboard boxes taped together as we needed more space... Our repurposed aquarium brooder
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Chicken Nursery
I already have 5 hens and 1 rooster and I am planning on getting baby chicks soon. I want to raise them with lots of human contact so they are tame and friendly. I'm planning on getting from 8 to 10...
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Brooder in covered run - Updated 7/11 Six weeks
7 week update. The chicks spend more time every day mixing with the hens. 6 week update. At 6 weeks the chicks have been using their panic doors to mix in with the hens. They get chased and pecked. But...
View ArticleOops, Here I go ....
I have always wanted to be a farmer (called homesteader in today’s times) and wanted to live off the land for the most part. But as most of my contemporaries I followed the dollar and worked for the...
View ArticleModified Little Giant Incubator for Hatching Success!
If you have a Little Giant Incubator and you are as disappointed with your hatches as I was, I can lead you through some modifications to make it better. I have other high end incubators but I wanted...
View ArticleEmergency Chick Brooder for Power Outages
Imagine this, you wake up in the middle of the night and the power is out. You get up, set up the emergency lights in the house, call the power company, and go back to bed. But something is nagging...
View ArticleThe Cooler BinBator
In early 2017, I decided to begin a rebuild of the BinBator and use a cooler for the body. If anyone else wants to try using a bin as I did in the last article in this series, I highly recommend...
View ArticleCabinet BinBator
Once again, I am upgrading my incubator. I ran into an issue with the small table-top cooler that was probably caused at least partially by my inability to quit tinkering. Hatch rates started falling...
View ArticleMiniBator
My large incubators are great, but they take up a lot of space. I have a small breeding population, so there are plenty of times when I only want to set a couple of eggs. I wanted a desktop model that...
View ArticleSimple Chick Brooder
We built this brooder box last summer from scrap lumber we had about and a new roll of hardware cloth. Happy to say that this year we had a broody hen raise 7 chicks to about 3 weeks old (then they...
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home made incubator cooler box
I made this incubator myself. 2-60Watt bulps, 12v pc fan , thermometer, W1209 temperature controller, 2 peanut butter bottles made holes in lid for water evaporation(humidity) cooler box. This is the...
View ArticleOhio brooder with Temperature controls and a collapsible brooder for storage.
This is more than just an ohio brooder in this post, but also a brooder housing that breaks down for storage. It just all was not going to fit into the title. I became interested in Ohio brooders as it...
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5 DIY brooders for your little chicks!!!
Alright, made the desicion to get some cute little peepers? You probably know they need a brooder. If your reading this article, chances are you don't want to spend money on something you could easily...
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Outside Brooder and Grow Out box
I started to run out of room inside for my chicks, so they needed to be safe. So I built this broader and grow out box until I they are big enough to be integrated with the flock. I first draw up a...
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Outside Brooder and Grow Out Box
I was running out of room inside, so I built a brooder box for my 4 week old chicks until they are big enough to be integrated with the flock. I started with a rough draft for the bottom stand so it...
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DIY Chicken TV Brooder
One of the reasons I got chickens was so that my kids could have the opportunity to grow up with animals, the way I did. So it made sense to start from the beginning - with hatching eggs - and to...
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The Moonshiner's Pepsi Cooler Incubator
My Pepsi cooler incubator build It all started one day when I drove past a garage sale and saw this Pepsi cooler. I instantly thought incubator or hatcher. Luckily it didn't work, and was being sold...
View ArticleHome made brooder
I am not the best writer but here goes. We bought 13 little chicks. We started out with a plastic water tub. It was good at first but we quickly realized that it was not going to be too roomy for long....
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How to Make a Brooder on The Cheap
How to Make a Brooder on The Cheap Brooder Setup First need to find a plain cardboard box at least 2 feet high. You will also need chicken wire or hardware cloth for top over box to prevent flight...
View ArticleBator2020
To satisfy and encourage my daughter’s love for birds, we decided to let her have chickens. We talked about the different options on getting them, and we settled on building our own incubator and...
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Homemade Egg Incubator - No Gas! No Electricity!
Contents: • Abstract (Premise) • Blueprint (Conceptual) • Step by Step Methodology (Video Included) • Purpose (Significance of the project) ABSTRACT My Homemade incubator does not make use of gas and...
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Improving hatch rates: a few tweaks plus a Little Giant Still Air Incubator...
I started hatching quail in June 2020. Due to COVID panic buying, incubation supplies were hard to find. It took over two months to get my eggs; I settled for the one incubator in stock at my local...
View ArticleHomemade cabinet incubator
***Pictures below*** Materials needed: 1 - 4'x8' sheet of 1/2" plywood (or osb board like I used) $25 at Home Depot 1 - Inkbird 110 volt temperature controller, $16 on Amazon 1 - Arctic F8 80mm...
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Setting up a Chick Brooder 🐥
Setting Up A Chick Brooder •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• When setting up a chick brooder, you might be surprised to discover how complicated the process can become. There are many...
View ArticleTop 5 Types of Incubators
For most, incubating and hatching eggs is one of the most enjoyable (and addictive) aspects of chicken keeping. Nothing beats watching those little ones fight their way out of the eggs, after 3 weeks...
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Poult brooder box build
We built this brooder box mainly for poults, (7’x4’) but will definitely be using it for chicks, keets and sometimes ducklings if hatch times work out. We used 3 pcs of plywood, 8 2x4x8, and 3 1x4x8...
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Large Brooder converts to chicken crate
This turned out to be a great brooder design with multiple uses. It can hold up to 40 small chicks, used as a small grow out, or 1 or 2 section crate for full grown chickens. I wanted to build a...
View ArticleWood Packing Crate Brooder
View attachment 2609019 I am always looking for new ways to reuse the various things we have laying around here. I also am in need of more brooders. Well, my one 14 yr old son took decided to see what...
View ArticleDIY Chicken TV Brooder, v2.0
If you're having deja vu, that's because I have done this before. I created a DIY Chicken TV Brooder article last year that looks very similar to this, with a brooder that looks very similar to this...
View ArticleBrooder without any heat source
Greetings to everyone! I wanted to share my experiences and methods I use in my brooders, so you can give it a try and keep chicks warm without any supplemental heat. When I hatched my first group of...
View ArticleRun to Outdoor Brooder Conversion
The only accurate word to describe this build is "Rednecked" -- but that's fine because while I was born a Yankee, rural North Carolina is where I really belong. I was given a group of 4-week-old...
View ArticleMHP in March outdoors
*** 5/17/2022 *** I uploaded the pictures incorrectly. The moderator let me know and I think the images are back. Made a few edits and added a recent picture. *** 5/17/2022 *** MHP (original post...
View ArticleChick cave brooder
My husband and I recently built our empty nest home on a 60 acre parcel of land in the upper mid-west. I have always wanted chickens and so I have been lurking on BYC for a year, researching everything...
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What We Learned About The Brooder
Our brooder adventure had its ups and downs. For one thing, we had absolutely no experience with any type of poultry, nor did we know that such little animals could be such a big job. (This article...
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Incubating eggs to hatch females
I have a different method that may help you hatch more female hands then roosters. I'm not an expert but thankfully I'm not a beginner and this has worked for me. Keep the temperature inside the...
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Overbuilt not overpriced Brooder
Housing 9 pullets and 1 cockerel (4-5 wks. in photo) in a 3' x 9' homemade brooder (screened in upcycled shipping crate - added lids, hinges and latches). Pine chips and cardboard for substrate, H2O...
View ArticleUse heat tape!
I was just so excited that my homemade incubator set up works so well I wanted to share it! I have posted on here before about making my homemade incubator. I finally got to make it. I am so excited...
View ArticleBrooder 2022
2022 was our third year raising chicks. Every year we improved our setup and learned what worked well for us. Since we are very pleased with how our third edition worked for us I thought to share it...
View ArticlePressure Canner Incubator for Rescue of a Staggered Hatch
As a newbie to the chicken world, I made the classic mistake - I set eggs in my new incubator, and then I kept adding to them, giving me a staggered hatch for my first incubation. One day after I set...
View ArticleStock tank brooder with loft
This is my third time raising chicks, and I just moved from using a dog crate to a stock tank brooder. Though the ability to view and handle chicks from the side was a huge advantage, it was also a...
View ArticleHOW TO BUILD CHICKEN INCUBATOR WITH AUTOMATED EGG TURNER
DETAILS I decided to build a homemade chicken incubator to hatch baby chicks when it's convenient to do so. It allows us replace our layers as needed without depending on a hatchery or a broody hen....
View ArticleNo nonsense old freezer brooder
I've been meaning to do an article on brooders for a while but never got around to it. This is a brooder I've used since 2007. I've made fancier brooders since then but they've never worked as well as...
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