Can I use cardboard and hot glue for chick house?

[chickens really]

Also a mirror they can see themselves and have mock battles with is great. They learn to walk away..

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Also a mirror they can see themselves and have mock battles with is great. They learn to walk away..

Lol, I will try that! Does it matter how big the mirror is or what kind?

 

[chickens really]

Lol, I will try that! Does it matter how big the mirror is or what kind?

The bigger type that you hang to check your hair before you leave....It's a great distraction..

 

[staceyj]

Are you just telling me that or did I say something about it?

Thank you though!

Please DONT USE HOT GLUE. THEY WILL DEFINITELY EAT IT.

 

[staceyj]

Things chicks need in a brooder:

Space *plenty of it
Clean environment
Warmth
Fresh water
Chick starter
Chick size grit *once they eat anything besides starter

You can make them a little roost from a thumb sized stick

Other than that, they don’t need toys.
They have each other to play with.

Their existence at this point is eating, drinking, pooping, interacting, and sleeping.

Putting other things in there with them will result in a thread titled:
HELP! My chick ate something and it’s caught in her throat!
...Or can’t poop
...Or got in a fight
...Or died overnight for no apparent reason

 

[cluckmecoop7]

Thank you @staceyj. I have decided I'm not going to use hot glue.

 

[paintedChix]

U can definitely use small boxes in your brooder. No glue. You can remove most of the tape or all of it, since you can layer/fold the ends to hold the bottom together. Cut holes in it for "doors" - could even do one on each of the four sides. They will run in/out, sleep in there when warm enough and roost on it.

When soiled, just remove and put in a new one! The soiled ones can be put out in your run (they WILL shred it up for you when they are older) or it can go into your compost. You can go bigger as the chicks get bigger - they love to roost on it.

I know someone else here in NC that uses card board boxes for the actual nest boxes, too, when the pullets are older and start laying eggs. when the boxes are soiled or get wet, he just replaces them!

I have a $ Store at each end of our main road (2 miles from one end & 5 miles from other), plus two across from each other in Vass (about 10 miles from me). I take home boxes from our Spay Neuter Vet Clinic every week - I shred some; using some as wind blocks that again join the DLM as they get wet/soiled; use some on weeds that didn't get cut this last year (100' x 4' wide) & getting ready to use a BUNCH as "forms" for garden walk-way blocks. We will be putting another layer of boxes down there when I get a load of wood chips to use as our walk way... I had others that were under the compost where I didn't get garden planted last year. The free ranging birds have spread out the layer(s) of compost so that it disappeared into the sand and the torn up cardboard shreds look really trashy at the moment. I have to spend some time raking it all back up, put up logs to hold it in, & redo all the compost. .. I'll post some pics. I don't have any pics (yet) of the cardboard "hut" idea, though. I've used cardboard boxes as "holders" to take baby shots in.



IF you put a "hut" or "playground" in your brooder, make sure it is not next to or under a light if that is what you are using. It could definitely catch on fire! Should be OK with a MHP or a Brinsea or Premier type heat plate.

The cardboard boxes I shred get mixed with shredded junk mail - goes into our brooders (both in the house & outside), into our next boxes, into our coops' DLM...