Setting up the brooding area

More supplies

Not knowing what all we needed we stopped by a feed store nearby. They were very ready with all the answers and supplies at the front of the store. The associate there helped us to get the rest of the supplies including:

• Red Heat lamp
• Thermometer
• Chick boost - Sugar+Supplements for their water
• Chick starter - Grit for grinding down food
• 2x Liter feeders
• 1x Gallon waterer
• 10 sq ft wood shavings

Setting up

Once we got home we planned out the area and started setting up.

We layed a tarp down in an under-bed drawer area and filled it with the wood shavings

We filled water/chick starter mixture and made sure it would get room temperature.

We put a heater in the room to make sure we could part of the brooder to the required 90 degrees (and it did). Filled the feeders with 50/50 chick starter/feed.

We brought in cardboard that we will later use to make the walls of the brooder higher as it's only about 5-6" and less than that with the wood shavings.