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DIY Chicken TV BrooderYou always need a heat source, the chicks themselves aren’t enough. Mine is a heated pad I got from Amazon - the kind that doesn’t have auto shut... -
DIY Chicken TV BrooderThanks for sharing your design! I am completely new to chickens so maybe this is a silly question, but does your brooder plate have a heat...
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Overbuilt not overpriced BrooderThanks for checking it out! I've made a few mods as time has gone on but it's mostly the same. Now that they are bigger and more comfortable with...
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The Brooder PenNice build. Glad that you updated it, proving that it passed the test of time. Needs dimensions...- 3KillerBs
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Birdbrains Better BatorInteresting and informative. Would be good to know how it held up over successive batches of eggs.
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Top 5 Types of IncubatorsMinimal information. Needs examples of the various incubator types, needs to include tabletop vs...
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Incubators & Brooders
Over 100 chicken brooders and incubators. Pictures, designs, and plans.
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The Moonshiner's Pepsi Cooler Incubator
- The Moonshiner
- 5 min read
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- Comments: 5
- Reviews: 14
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... -
Short on Time? Recycle-a-Prefab Brooder
- rosemarythyme
- 9 min read
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- Reviews: 14
or: How I learned to stop worrying and love brooding outdoors! Contents: Building the Brooder Making a Mama Heating Pad Early Integration... -
Pseudo Brooder Heater 'Plate'
- aart
- Updated
- 3 min read
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There were several discussions around March 2014 in multiple threads in multiple sub forums about using a people heating pad to simulate the... -
Setting up a Chick Brooder 🐥
- CHlCKEN
- 9 min read
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- Reaction score: 30
- Comments: 50
- Reviews: 13
This article offers tips on setting up a brooder, as well as what kind of brooder to setup. It also touches on Heat Plates and their comparison to... -
Amferro103s Homemade Chicken Brooder
- amferro103
- 2 min read
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- Reaction score: 14
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HomeMade Brooder After deciding we were hooked on hatching we decided to build a durable brooder that we could us over and over. We... -
How I made a Mama Heating Pad Plate
- feathermaid
- 3 min read
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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... -
Yorkshire coops guinea cage brooder
- Yorkshire Coop
- Updated
- 1 min read
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This is my guinea cage brooder with Brinsea Eco glow heat plate. Ideal for indoor use for the first couple of weeks after hatching. No risk of... -
Franken-bator -- Converting a cheap yellow topped model with the Incukit Mini
- Redhead Rae
- 8 min read
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- Reaction score: 9
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Note: after 2 years of use, I've come to the conclusion that these two incubators are only really good for lock down incubators. I thought it... -
Building the BinBator
- BantyChooks
- Updated
- 8 min read
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- Reaction score: 9
- Comments: 11
- Reviews: 6
After becoming dissatisfied with my Little Giant's propensity to temperature swings, I went on the market for a new incubator. I wanted something... -
My coop brooder and Integration
- blackdog043
- 3 min read
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I use a coop brooder with the Mama heat pad. At four weeks, I use a panic door panel for the brooder, to let the chicks interact with the big... -
DIY Chicken TV Brooder
- K0k0shka
- 5 min read
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- Reaction score: 10
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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... -
Run to Outdoor Brooder Conversion
- 3KillerBs
- 4 min read
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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... -
How to Make a Cooler Incubator
- venymae
- 8 min read
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How to Make a Basic Cooler Incubator Easy Instructions for Making you own High Quality Incubator As of 2017, a cooler incubator will cost you... -
Indoor Chick Brooder and Grow Out Pen
- fraufaulkner
- 3 min read
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I thought I would share how our indoor brooder set up looks and what we did when they needed more space but still didn't have a finished coop yet... -
Keeping my wood brooder floor dry.
- Trimurtisan
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- Reaction score: 4
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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... -
Harris Farms Nurture Right 360 Incubator (Updated)
- CluckNDoodle
- 6 min read
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- Reaction score: 6
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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... -
Modified Little Giant Incubator for Hatching Success!
- BirdsBeesTrees
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- Reaction score: 4
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Emergency Chick Brooder for Power Outages
- Redhead Rae
- 4 min read
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- Reaction score: 20
- Comments: 6
- Reviews: 5
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...