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Setting Up the Indoor Brooder Structure

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Raising Chickens Series: Preparing the brooder..picking up the baby birds!

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What happens here

Place the chosen brooder container, such as a large galvanized stock tank (e.g., Countyline tote), in a sheltered indoor area like a garage or barn. Line the bottom of the tank with a layer of wood shavings or synthetic straw matting for bedding. Position the chick waterer and feeders within the brooder. For the waterer, add small rocks or gravel to the water tray to prevent newly hatched chicks from accidentally drowning and to help keep the water cleaner. Hang the heat lamp above the brooder at an appropriate height to provide the target temperature of 95-100 degrees Fahrenheit, monitoring with the thermometer. Adjust the lamp's height as needed; if chicks huddle directly under the lamp, they are too cold; if they spread out away from it, they are too hot.

Goal: Physically set up the internal components of the brooder structure to create a warm and safe environment for the chicks.

Tools and materials

  • Chick Feeders
  • Chick Waterer
  • Galvanized Stock Tank
  • Heat Lamp
  • Small Rocks or Gravel
  • Thermometer
  • Wood Shavings / Synthetic Straw Matting

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days my guys here is our brooder setup and we basically just use one of these big ol county line totes and this will be enough to handle the 50 Birds probably for a week or so and then we'll have to get two of these totes now here's our thermometer if we need our thermometer we'll have it in here we'll go ahead and unwrap it this is our feeder and we filled it about half way full of food we don't want to overwhelm them and this is our water and we put our mixture in the waterer and we put our rocks in there so that we don't have any birds to get in the water and drown we want to make sure that we keep clean shavings in here okay it'll look very nice and the birds will do very good now folks you need to really give this some thought do a good job with your brooder do a good job with your birds take some pride take some time and do good and ensure that your birds will stay healthy and happy poor preparation not thinking things through and just throw in a bunch of birds in there is not gonna work you need to keep them clean you need to keep them dry you need to keep them healthy you need to keep an eye on them we'll go over a few health tips and stuff like that in future videos as things progress with our Birds let's take you over here and we'll show you the final destination for

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