{"id":1179,"date":"2016-03-02T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T22:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2016-11-11T15:10:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T23:10:34","slug":"build-200-chick-brooder-two-hours-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plamondon.com\/wp\/build-200-chick-brooder-two-hours-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Build a 200-Chick Brooder in 2 hrs for $20"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baby<\/a><\/center>The Joys of a Reliable, All-Weather Baby Chick Brooder.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the biggest challenges to keeping to flock of chickens is raising baby chicks successfully every time, especially when the weather doesn’t cooperate\u2014and does it ever?<\/p>\n

What’s Wrong With Ordinary Chicken Brooders?<\/h1>\n

The biggest single thing you can do to ensure successful with baby chicks is to build a chicken brooder that really does the job.<\/p>\n

What’s wrong with ordinary brooders?<\/p>\n

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  • Overhead heat lamps are fragile, use a lot of electricity, and\u00a0don’t keep the chicks as snug as you’d like.<\/li>\n
  • Sheet-metal brooders don’t work at all in unheated rooms unless you have a guaranteed run of warm weather.<\/li>\n
  • Propane brooders are available only for large-scale brooding.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Time for an Easy-to-Build Insulated Heat-Lamp Brooder<\/h1>\n

    Since the poultry brooders on the market don’t get the job done, you need to build one yourself. One that keeps the chicks warm, is easy to build, and is insulated to save electricity.<\/p>\n

    This design was developed by the Ohio Experiment Station in the Forties, and was once used on vast numbers of American farms, but was almost forgotten when I rediscovered them in the Nineties and popularized them again.<\/p>\n