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Monday, February 1, 2010
Re: [CHICKENS-101] Brooders
LOL, water troughs make awesome brooders :-) Make a simple wood & chicken wire from for the top and you're good to go. I had 55 meat birds babies in the house last February in one...never again! They are not drafty. I use cheap utility clamps to achor the top on mine for little critters who like tasty chicks.
In a message dated 2/1/2010 1:11:17 P.M. Central Standard Time, DBauer7998@aol.com writes:
This is going to sound completely insane, but somehow I acquired a large horse/cattle trough when we were up in Cincinnati. (We did not live in the country.) For the life of me, I can't remember how or why we got it, although it probably had something to do with Chris' reptiles.
The second completely insane thing is I do not for the life of me remember why I bothered to drag this humongous thing down to Florida when we moved here in 2003. It's not like I've ever had a use for it. It's been sitting top-side down near the air conditioner on the driveway and I've been using it as a potting bench and a 'hidey hole' for lizards and snakes, who crawl underneath it for protection.
Light bulb moment............ what a great brooder it will make! It's about 4 to 5 feet long and the sides are about 3 1/2 feet tall, and it would be very easy to attached heat lamps and still leave a cooler end and to build a screen top to keep any curious critters out. And it only took me about 12 years to figure out a use for it!
I may not be the brightest bulb in the pack, but my brain occasionally does flicker on.
Laura Undem, Flying A Farm, Morrow, AR http://flyingafarm.com/
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