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What is a brooder? In short, it is somewhere that chicks are kept warm and safe, fed and watered, until they are old enough to be released into the yard and coop with the bigger hens.
You can make a brooder out of a simple cardboard or plastic box (with the lid removed), or a bath tub, or you can buy a chick starter kit.
Your brooder will need a heater, and some form of substrate. Kitchen towel, simply laid in sheets, is ideal. Some people also use sand, but bear in mind this can become uncomfortably hot from a brooder heater. If you are using a plastic-based brooder, you will also need a non-slip mat (such as you might use in your bath tub) to help your chicks find their feet, and prevent splay leg from chick slipping on plastic flooring while their leg bones are still fusing.
If you’re thinking of rearing chicks, bear in mind that they make a lot of noise, and a lot of mess – and that they are often significantly brighter than adult chickens, as well as being very inquisitive. As soon as they’ve worked out how to bounce, leap, and flap, they’ll be out of the brooder and running amok in your house! Poultry keeping and being house-proud typically don’t go all that well together.
The same basic principles apply to where you situate a poultry brooder as apply to keeping small, caged pets. You don’t want the brooder to be in a draft, or in direct sunlight, you want it out of the reach of other pets, and somewhere you can easily keep an eye to your chicks, but where they won’t be being unsettled by a lot of back and forth, particularly at night, when they should be sleeping.
The brooder will need to be on a flat, level surface, where it won’t get accidentally knocked or kicked.
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