Dog crate chicken brooder

Dog kennel

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...

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Dog crate chick brooder lined with cardboard.

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I set up my dog kennel (big enough for my Great Dane) for my six chicks I received from Meyer's. Started out simple enough with a divider to keep half of...

This is our first "go" with chicks. After many hours of researching brooder ideas, we decided to use the dog crate and heating pad concept. We brought our...

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...

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Hello! So I'm running into a bit of a situation.. My chicks are about 4 1/2 weeks old! I started them in a small brooder and moved them to a larger one at...

repurpose a unused dog crate into a chicken brooder. All we did was zip tie hardware cloth on the inside of the old dog crate from when the dogs were puppies!

In preparation for my hatching experiment I figured I’d get a head start and get working on a brooder box for when the chicks hatch. While looking online...

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...

Quote: The source of heat really doesn't matter....it's the ambient temperatures they are exposed when outside the heat source that triggers faster...

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...