Best Chick Brooder ~ Build it in 30 mins for $30 ~ Keep your Chicks safe from your Cat
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We needed a chick brooder that our cat Figaro wouldn't be able to get in to. It needed to be affordable and come apart easy so we can store it when we are not using it.
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@djpedromixhouston
3 жыл бұрын
How many chics can you acomódate in that awesome brooder, 😊 🙏🏼 thanks
@michaelnuss2051
2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome. How many chicks is it good for at one time? I just ordered 30 😬
@christineosborne3155
10 ай бұрын
The cut list isn't showing. Could you re-post it please?
@gorenas_garage
4 ай бұрын
The cut list link isn’t working
@scannfamily4863
3 ай бұрын
This link isn't working? Could you please fix it or post it in the comments? Thank You
That’s a sweet brooder... we’ve got 2 smaller ones, but might try that for our meatbirds this year
The simplicity, functionality, and breakdown for storage is absolutely wonderful. Making one of my own this weekend. Thanks for all you do!
I also love to watch how you repurpose/recycle items (like jugs and bottles). Very creative!
I know you said you were putting cardbord down but to make it easier clean up you could put a tarp on top of the cardbord then when you go to clean it just lift the brooder off and fold the tarp up and dump it on your compost pile. makes for easy clean up.
@LumnahAcres
6 жыл бұрын
That is a good idea too! Thanks
@mountainsidefarm8357
6 жыл бұрын
it works great this is what we do in the garage.
@megiramos9695
5 жыл бұрын
Plastic feed bags work too! It is like having free tarps! Easy dump and easy rinse & hang dry.
Buy old leather belts at yard sales. Cut into strips and they make great hinges. Last a lot longer then the plastic.
@LoLa-uf8yu
3 ай бұрын
That's a great idea.
What a brilliant idea Al. I love that it all collapse away when you don't need it. You're a very clever man.
Figaro is so little! He's too cute. I didn't start watching your videos until the barn build, so now I'm watching what I missed. Learning so much from your information. Thanks.
Excellent stuff Al! I love the simple yet elegant design of this brooder and the fact that it can be easily dismantled and it should certainly keep Figaro out. Seeing any sort of animal pen like that still triggers in me the childhood excitement of raising rabbits and poultry. Can't wait to see your new hatchlings! 🐤 🐣 🐥 :)
I love your use of a plastic bottle for hinges, that's awesome! ~~Leslie
Great build. I love the simple design that can be broken down for storage without need for tools.
Al you are such a great teacher!. I love the detail you go into when you are explaining how to do or make something. You always do refreshingly clean work and so are your explanations.
What a great design! I love that you can put it away and it folds flat. Love the recycle for the hinges!!
Love the design of this brooder! Can’t wait to see your cut sheet so we can make one for our chicks that are in the incubator right now.
I never would have thought of doing it this way, but this is so brilliantly simple. Love it!
I’m not a builder by nature or trade. Your build videos are great and make me feel confident I can build too!
Another great vid Al! Cooking videos, tool reviews, how-to's... this channel has it all!
Nice job Al! I really like the easily disassembled and stored aspect, along with using cardboard as a disposable bottom. Have a Blessed Sunday
@LumnahAcres
6 жыл бұрын
Thanks you too Dennis
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I am almost done with my brooder box, I had to stop and recharge the battery, but as soon as it is charged I will be done. I don't need the top piece for mine, I don't have a Figaro to worry about. But this old woman did all by herself thanks to your awesome video!
I needed to make a temporary brooder for the 6 new chicks that were getting too big for my laundry room. I don't live on a farm but a residential area in a city. I needed a brooder that I could disassemble and your plan was ingenious! It took me 3 hours not 30 minutes since I am a 65 yo woman learning how to use power tools. It is not as perfect as yours but my chicks are delighted and they now have a place until they are ready to be out in the coop,, Thanks a million for such a smart design. I am going to use one of the lids as a compost screen when not being used for a brooder which is rare..
👍👍 Nice job Al !! You gotta be loving your new cordless tools!! The brooder will keep Figaro entertained for hours!! Cheers!!
@LumnahAcres
6 жыл бұрын
The new tools are great. I am sure we will find Figaro on top of the brooder when we come home from work
You are a heckuva woodworking farmer!! Love you Man! Building this tomorrow.
Awesome design! Think I will make one for taking chicks and rabbits to the farmer's market. Great idea with the plastic hinges. Always looking for ways to save money! - Kevin
This is genius, thanks so much. After recently brooding a dozen ducklings in our bathtub, we had said we would never brood again. Also being in a rental rather than somewhere we own, we didn't want to invest in a whole bunch of infrastructure to make brooding easier. But with a set up like this, I think we could easily brood, and have a portable set up to follow us to wherever we end up next. Great video, subscribed!
This is great Al! Love that you can take it apart! Give Figaro a pet for me...he’ll need a little extra love since ya put the whammy on his chicky plans! LOL TFS God Bless you and yours ~Lisa
That looks awesome. Great job. Can't wait to see the chicks in it.
I would add a strip of wood around the inside over the edge of the hardware cloth. I made a brooder on legs and the weight on the seam pulled it loose. I went over the edge with a furing strip ($.98 a 6 ft piece ) and it solved the problem. I can see Pluto chasing Figaro around and end up on top too. Things happen lol. Love the design though I have to use our Kubota to move it to the shed when I am through and it is big and ungainly.
I just now thought about something else I wanted to tell you, I love your hinges. That is such a genius idea. I know they won’t last forever, but it is definitely a good idea when you’re in a pinch.
Nice! That is frikkin' ingenious AL. I REALLY like the fact it can be slipped apart and stored flat against a wall.
Built this last week. Super easy. Amazing design. I had have some very cold weather and had trouble keeping temp in my garage. So, I added 1 inch insulation foam board cut to fit between the joints and 2 piece to fit on top of the mesh.
Al I think this idea is great I built a brooder one year and then we were constantly moving it around the rest of the year. I like the fact that this will just fold up and get out of the way
That's a really nice brooder. Good job. Thanks for sharing. God bless your family.
Love how you can easily assemble and disassemble the brooder.👍🏻
This is the BEST BROODER I've seen! Thanks for sharing!
I built this today for my chicks. They seem much more comfortable now. Took me 3 hours but I’ve never built anything from wood and had to search for the tools. 😆. Thanks for a great idea and plan!
This is close to what I had in my head just better. Thank you for this video!
Thank you so much for the design and inspiration! Had I actually looked at the cut list maybe mine would be a little prettier...but it does hold chicks and ducks just fine! Video coming soon of the "build"!!
I love hardware cloth and use it a LOT. It's more expensive but lasts MUCH longer than chicken wire. Our original chicken coop and run are lined with hardware cloth and it's STILL in great shape 11 years later. We have to replace wood in places but the cloth is in perfect shape! Cute kitty!!!
I love it. We really need to make a brooder this year and I’m thinking this is it. With a cut sheet I can make it myself and don’t even need to bother the husband. Those chicks sound great, I wish we could buy less than 23!
That box design would work for a warming box in the garden also!! I like it!!!!
@LumnahAcres
6 жыл бұрын
That is a great idea. You could put gree house plastic right on top.
Nice, I don't know why I don't think of notch joints more often. That is perfect for a brooder!
Love the simple build idea. Thanks so much for sharing!!
Great, inventive, super economical design bro. You were born for this.
That is awesome. I was looking for something simple like that. Thank you very much.
I need to build a new brooder...& THIS IS IT!! Thank you!!❤️
Very nice set up. I use a plastic pool and a 5 ft doggy fence with cardboard inside. Old stuff cleaned up and will be ready to go. Personally, I would only use metal hinges.
Nice job as usual Al I just 😍 love the clean finishes of your work its great hi good afternoon Gina and Olivia have a wonderful weekend beautiful family till tomorrow same time same place God bless beautiful family. ☁⛅🏡🐓🐓🐔🐔🐔🐷🐷🐕🐈👍👍👍👍👍.
We made your chick brooder and it's AWESOME!!! Thank you for sharing such a great design!
Just came across this. Now I got two up and running. Very much appreciated!
Perfect, simple build. Thanks!
Great idea and love being about to breakdown for easy storage. Keep up with the good ideas! Love your channel.
Nice design 👍 Your workshop reminds me of hanging out with my Da in his - Good times! ♥️🙏
This is very educational and practical. Thank you for this.
Very clever. Great job and can't wait to see it in use. I have been working on a stackable worm bin using the the wire cloth and man, I have scrapes all over my hands. Thanks and blessings to you and your family, Jim
@LumnahAcres
6 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a perfect time to make the brooder! :)
@jimsgardensandrabbitry
6 жыл бұрын
Too early yet for me, but I like this design. I don't usually get my little ones until April. You getting snow there? Was just looking at the weather channel and now they are saying 3 to 6 inches and possibly up to 9 inches and then lots of rain and then by tomorrow night back in the single numbers for temps. Blessings, Jim
Great explanation to WHY you’re doing each step. Thank you Brother
Good stuff... Just starting out with my own, not real ambitious yet... about 10 chicks and going to see how it goes.. Love the ideas, keep them coming.. Thanks..
This was completely fantastic! I really hope you send out the instructions!!! Thanks for the info on how to do this. With chicks in the incubator it was perfect timing. This will be our brooder! Love the fact that you can easily break it down and store it. Bob Miski Fox Farm
I like this brooder idea, awesome for storing it away. Brooders can take up so much room.
@LumnahAcres
6 жыл бұрын
they sure can I think that is the worst part about them
Nice job putting the brooder together. Come on Spring
Thanks for sharing this. I'll be making one next weekend!
I just found this video and I have to say it is an awesome chicken brooder. I love the fact that you can dismantle it and store it flat. That’s been one of my biggest concerns is having a chick breeder that I have to figure out where I can store it between baby chicks.
So smart. Simple, cheap and easy. Thanks.
Good Job! Quick and Easy.. The Gold Comet Hen is a Good egg layer also...
Love the way you let your pets out with the farm animals.
This is an excellent design. I have made various brooders in the past and they have always taken up too much storage space, which is very inefficient seeing as u only need them for such a short period. I will certainly give your design a build. It looks sturdy and it packs up. HDPE hinges great bit of recycling.
Al thanks for the toutorial,it was awesome watching u built it
Looks good Al. Depending on how my endeavor with my chickens goes this year, I may need to build one next year.
I really like this style of chick brood can't wait til you hit 1,000 likes.
You, sir, are a genius! I'm building this today!
Great job Al. Learned something new. Thank you.
awesome build Al !! thanks for sharing
Nifty. That can be used for all kinds of critters. Thanks for posting.
Ooooooh! Another cheap brooder for me to build, haha! I use plastic totes with a sheet of chicken wire loosely put over the top. Quail chicks start testing their wings early inside the brooder and will launch themselves to fly out of the brooder. The wire blocks them and forces the birds to fall back into the brooder. I wish I had the space for your brooder but, I’ll just have to be patient. Thanks for sharing your build plans with us!
Great video! Thanks for the information!
Thanks for sharing! Getting more chickens this spring!
Done! Thanks for the simple plans😊
what a cute cat. that makes this even more fun to watch!
How slick is that! Thanks for posting this!
Wow, others are already up and beat me. You are coming close to the 20,000 March, ( less than 440 to go). Your channel has come so far in the last few months.anyway, this is a great video, full of practical knowledge. We do a lot of chisel work in The Philippines. Your design is so cleaver. We do not have a cat, but the design still makes sense to me. God bless your family. God bless America. Awesome video.
This is a great project!
Thanks, Al. What I like most about your videos is you just get to the bottom line. I am the Joe Friday kind of guy (Just the facts ma'ma). So I guess you were just playing chicken farmer today. (PLFL). By the way 4 wheeler inner tubes make good hinges. I just use the ones the bike shop has in the trash.
Great chick brooder. It will keep Figaro away from the chicks. Greetings from Andreas on Off Grid Sweden
Thank you for sharing. Great design.
Al: Just wanted to tell you....I just put my baby chicks out in the 'big' coop after raising them from hatched to 3+ weeks. This brooder is by far the best!!! Thank you SO much!!! this is freakin fantastic!!! I have the brooder stored now against a wall in my basement for future use. SO appreciate this!!!!
@LumnahAcres
6 жыл бұрын
Glad you like it.
@SarahPerine
Жыл бұрын
How many chicks did you raise in it?
Awesome brooder man! The plastic hinges was my favorite part. What a great idea and completely free!!! Hahaha Love it
@LumnahAcres
6 жыл бұрын
in todays friday update I show how easy it is to store it
I thought you were going to say the chicks are going to dig it! Ha ha all your animals are awesome not just Figaro but he is a cool cat!
@LumnahAcres
6 жыл бұрын
Figaro is quite the character!
Thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden AL I love to watch your video keep it up 👨👩👧👸👕👓🐩🐔🐓🐥🐈🐖🌱🏡🎥👍👍👍
I watched your video and was so impressed in what you was doing living out your life homesteading. I read where you told about being diagnosed with anxiety and prescription medications didn't work for you on a positive side. I was diagnosed with anxiety and have been on Xanax for 25 years and I'm 52 years old now and the withdrawals has been horrible I don't know why doctors ever put anyone on this type of medication. I identified with you on the level of having anxiety my love living on a farm and in the Lord Jesus Christ it has been my salvation. Thank you for making these videos they are a great encouragement to me and I know to a lot of others. I am sorry this is so long my other comments will not be long I promise. Thanks for lifting up my head by watching your videos.
@LumnahAcres
6 жыл бұрын
Dont worry about the comments lengths. I hope you get off the medication and it all works out for you and that you have a great growing season!
@jackywaldon359
6 жыл бұрын
Lumnah Acres Thanks friends! I watched so many of your videos yesterday I dreamed of you guys last night. Lol. I am only subscribed to you and one other because you two are more informative. Great job keep it up I'm 110% for you in what you are doing. The pigs look great. I am off the xanax but it's been hard. Looking forward to your next video tomorrow.
Nice and it folds away ;-) Love the hinges nice man.
Waiting patiently for cut list!
Also, I love tuxedo kitties and I love your Figaro.
Pretty slick build, Al, I'll definitely be building this also. We have 3 cats plus a neighbor's dog that already killed 2 of our chickens.
Very nice thanks for the video
Figaro is awesome!
@craigmooring2091
6 жыл бұрын
Yeah!
Great job!
I can watch you all day, you’re so detailed in your instructions. Even I can repeat what you’ve done. Thank you so much 😊
thank you for sharing.....enjoyed the video..
brillantly simple
Great video
I have raw leather that I use for hinges. It works great and lasts a long time