Well, my 9 Araucanas have moved outside to the intermediate brooder! They'll probably be in there for a month or so while I finish up their brand new chicken house and coop. They had a BLAST scratching and pecking in the grass! I made sure and put some grit in their feeder since they were...
So my rumpless Araucanas will be 2 weeks old tomorrow, and they've totally outgrown their brooder. I modified my German Shepherd's traveling crate for them (just by wrapping it with some plastic 1" mesh I got at Walmart--it was in the garden section for wrapping tomato plants) and moved them in...
I'll do that, Schmoo! My dad and son are always building something or other, we've got to have some scrap wood blocks around here somewhere...
I was thinking of trying one of two things on the next crate/brooder--either putting some cross-wires under the hardware cloth, like a heavier-duty...
I turned my small-dog-size dog crate into a brooder. I lined the sides with 1/4" hardware cloth and also made an elevated "floor" of the same thing. The crate has a plastic tray that slides out and with the elevated floor, poop and scattered crumbles and any water spills just fall down onto...