Over the years we have done all sorts of innovative things.
The first year we got chicks in the mail, we were living without electricity. We blocked off an area under our stove and set a pot of hot water wrapped in a blanket on the floor. The chicks discovered how to cozy up to the pot in between folds of the blanket and stayed warm and cozy. However, as they grew feathers, they also discovered they could have run of the house!
We have kept them in the bathtub with a heat lamp, but cleaning the tub afterward was horrendous!
Last year we found plastic bins with lids at the local Walmart. Jim cut the lid to allow the heat lamp to be placed above it.
Then, as needed, we raise the heat lamps and add a screen to keep them from flying out.
Pictured above are day old quail. We move them from this container in the basement at 1 week old, to a larger 4x5 brooder in the barn, and then into 12x10 pens to grow out. We move then so often because each week we have at least 100 -300 quail hatched.
We use these bins for ducklings, chicks, turkeys for their first week or so depending on how many we have hatched out.
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