Got any suggestions for this?

Question

Anybody got any suggestions for making a homemade brooder box for chickens?

No jokes please.

And I meant a brooder box you can make at home with stuff that's on hand.

Answer 1

plastic bag. put chicken in there. tie it up. problem fixed.

Answer 2

Make a box 18 x 18 inches and 6 inches deep, then take off one end and fasten to the back with hinges, which forms the cover. Nail a strip, a, 3 inches wide across the open side at bottom, which forms the box for the poultry to eat from. Take a board, b, the width of inside of box, 14 inches long, and insert in front of box, nailing as shown in cut, with the upper end even with front edge of box and slanting in until a space of 2 inches is left between bottom of board and back of box to allow the feed to pass through.

The feed is poured into this hopper and runs down into the box at the bottom as fast as needed. The size of the hopper can be varied to suit the size of the flock. It should be screwed to wall of poultry house about 12 inches from floor. By using this hopper one may keep a dry mixture consisting of wheat bran and middlings and occasionally corn meal, or a small amount of linseed meal, always before the fowls. In addition, some people feed a mixture of whole corn, oats and wheat in the litter morning and evening, also ground green bone and beef scraps.

Moovable brooder house:
It may be built on runners, with a tight board floor of matched boards. A convenient size is 6 feet wide and 10 feet long, 6 feet high in front and 4 feet at the rear. The door is in the middle, and there is a window on each side, with two openings below. The roof should be covered with a good quality of prepared roofing.

The same material used to cover the sides will make the house warmer. Roosts may be put in after the brooders are taken out, and the chickens easily protected from foxes and other animals.

A Low Poultry Run:
A safe and secure run that requires less material than a high pen can be made from laths sawed in two, which would make the sides 2 feet high, making the frame of scantlings and the top of sawed laths, box boards or similar material. The top of the run should consist almost entirely of trap doors, using bits of old harness for hinges, which will look well if cut neatly. The picture shows one of the doors propped up to show the construction more plainly. The doors are 4 feet long, the length of a lath, and may be 8 to 10 feet the other way and still not be clumsy, being constructed of such light material. This trap door is an important feature, as it permits the tender to enter easily for removing top soil and replacing with fresh earth, or otherwise caring for the birds. The frame material is of 2 x 2-inch scantling at the corners, while the side strips are made of inch boards sawed 2 inches wide. The earth under this run should be slightly mounded for the sake of dryness.

A Very Cheap Henhouse:
It was built by a "down east" Yankee. The studs and rafters were made of two pieces of 1 x 2-inch stuff nailed together T shape. These were set up 2 feet 10 inches apart on centers and covered with wire netting drawn taut. This was then covered with tarred paper, which made the only material between the fowls and the outside air. They have wintered in these houses without discomfort, and gave a good egg yield. The wire netting prevented the paper from sagging when the house was covered with snow. lol

Answer 3

It depends on where you plan on putting the brooder. It should have pretty high walls if it's going to be outside so it will keep out any drafts. Cardboard would probably work as long as it's pretty thick. I have never actually had chickens but my mom did and so do some of my friends. Here's a link that I hope will help.

http://www.homestead.com/shilala/brooding.html

Answer 4

All I used was 5 pieces of wood, nails and a hammer. I made a rectangular box with a bottom and filled it with straw. The chickens and ducks always lay eggs in this box.
I also have chickens who lay eggs in a 5 gallon bucket turned on its side with straw in it.
Chickens will set almost any place that they feel they won't get bothered. I have chickens that set in the long grass, some set in the nesting boxes, some set under the nesting boxes. Wherever they feel comfortable.
If you don't have access to wood, buy a cheap plastic shallow tote or wash pan and put straw in it. That would also work. No straw, use grass. Dry grass would be best so it doesn't get moldy.

Answer 5

All you have to do is make sure it is off the ground. A size that will let them walk inside without hitting their heads. 2' wide by 2' high and 2' deep. It will work they will lay their eggs. They will still lay eggs even if you don't put a box in their. Once they start laying they will lay them on the ground.

make it out of plywood and 2' 4's

Answer 6

Go to an office and ask if they have any leftover printer-paper boxes. Those are a great size, and they're usually happy to get rid of them! And use a paper shredder to shred up newspaper, old bills, etc. to line it with.

Answer 7

use a big cardboard box, line it with shredded newspaper or something like straw, and put it high up.

Answer 8

Maybe you could use some cardboard.