Winter should be just as good a time to raise chickens as any other time of year. With more latitude on temperature and air ...

Raising chicks can be a fun experience for children and adults alike, but it’s crucial that chick brooder environments be set up correctly. Here are the brooder temperature and light requirements you ...

Knowledge of housing, brooding, and handling chicks safety makes raising poultry a rewarding experience. Before deciding to raise poultry, or any livestock, it is important to investigate local codes ...

Brooding baby chicks in cold weather — how low can you go? As it turns out, cold-weather brooding can go low indeed. Back in the 1950s, when the electric companies were promoting electric brooding as ...

Raising chicks is infinitely easier than incubating eggs, but there is still much more to it than just plopping them in a coop. They need a toasty-warm mini-coop – a brooder – to nurture them into ...

Brooding is the provision of artificial heat to help chicks regulate their temperature. The heat can be provided using charcoal jikos, gas or electric brooders. The brooder area should be ready at ...