Plastic tote chicken brooder

Before you bring home baby chicks, you need to set up a brooder for the baby chicks. Learn what you need to include when setting it up.

Are you interested in raising chicks? Looking at these DIY chicken brooder ideas to build a cozy and secure environment is crucial for the health and growth of your chicks. In this guide, we provide you with 15 easy DIY chicken brooder ideas and plans that are easy to assemble and can be customized to suit your needs. Our step-by-step instructions will assist you in making a comfortable home for your feathered friends. Building a DIY chicken brooder is not only cost-effective but also allows…

You can turn a storage tote box into a DIY chicken brooder with a few simple modifications. A nice home for your chicks' first weeks.

Check out this super easy DIY brooder box perfect for chicks or ducklings!

We bought chicks. (!) Before buying chicks one must procure a brooder to keep the little buggers warm. A million years ago (ten years ago, actually) when we built a chick brooder, we made a big ply…

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! We made our chick brooder last year (2018) using giant Sterilite bins (50 gallon - the biggest we...

We bought a large plastic container with lockable lid, which I then cut two holes in - one roughly 10" square, the other 6". The infrared lamp is about 9" in di…

Quote: Not yet, but I will be! Thanks for the tips. Chicks will be a new adventure for us. Withh three dogs and two cats in the house it's going to be...

Is there anything cuter than baby chicks in the springtime? Raising chickens is such a fun part of country life and now it's becoming even more popular in more urban areas as well. In the three years we've been here, we've had baby chicks twice and I'd do it every year if I could! Last spring