{"id":7902,"date":"2021-06-03T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T05:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7902"},"modified":"2021-06-02T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T03:04:15","slug":"poultry-brooding-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=7902","title":{"rendered":"Poultry Brooding Options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re working on building up an outdoor brooding area to hatch and raise chickens and turkeys. The current coop &#8212; which seemed so large when we got our first five hens &#8212; is too small for raising more birds.<\/p>\n<p>Option #1 is to get a larger coop &#8212; we&#8217;re looking at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homedepot.com\/p\/Arrow-Newport-10-ft-W-x-8-ft-D-2-Tone-Eggshell-and-Coffee-Galvanized-Metal-Shed-with-Sliding-Lockable-Doors-NP10867\/100211354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">metal shed<\/a> &#8212; that will give us space to frame out two rectangles, cover them with hardware cloth, and have both a nursery with the chicken toaster and a brooder for slightly order birds who are still getting acclimated to the flock. To save floor space, I would make PVC tube feeders and waterers. The brooder could be brought outside into the pasture to serve as a baby bird tractor, too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=7904\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption1-1024x599.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption1-1024x599.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption1-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption1-768x449.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption1-750x438.png 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption1.png 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Option #2 is to build out a nursery and brooder on the side of the existing coop. This could even be insulated to ensure the baby guys are extra toasty. This probably would have a hinged roof so we could access the baby guys from outside of the coop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=7905\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7905\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-7905\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption2-750x422.png 750w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption2-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ChickenNurseryOption2.png 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re working on building up an outdoor brooding area to hatch and raise chickens and turkeys. The current coop &#8212; which seemed so large when we got our first five hens &#8212; is too small for raising more birds. Option #1 is to get a larger coop &#8212; we&#8217;re looking at a metal shed &#8212; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,1365],"tags":[1072,1177],"class_list":["post-7902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chickens","category-turkeys","tag-brooder","tag-coop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7907,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions\/7907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}