Chick Brooder Panels
Product Details
Design your own brooder with our quick-to-assemble modular brooder panels to provide a safe and confined space for your young chicks and other game birds.
We allow 0.5 sq ft of space per day-old chick. Panels sold individually.
If you're looking for a complete brooder setup, Premier’s Brooder Starter Kits may be a good choice. Kits include everything the flockmaster needs to set up a small brooder.
Common Uses
Specs
Disposable Cardboard Panels
- 16"H x 25"L
- 3/16" thick
- Interlocking
- Corrugated cardboard (makes excellent mulch for the garden)
Reusable Plastic Panels
- 16"H x 25"L
- 1/4" thick
- Interlocking
- Double-walled plastic (easily clean with soap and water), which is stiffer than cardboard
How to Use
| No. of Panels | Size | No. of Chicks (approx) |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 6 sq ft (37" dia) | 12 |
| 7 | 10 sq ft (50" dia) | 20 |
Listed below are recommended optional components or related items. Your particular situation may require alternative recommendations. Please call and talk to our consultants if there are any questions at 800-282-6631.
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Heat Lamp and Accessories
Prima Heat Lamp Kit, includes (1) 250W clear bulb
Item #557101 -A rugged and reliable heat lamp used to warm lambs, goat kids, chickens or for any animal that is sick or cold. Use standard or infrared heat bulbs.
$74.75 -
Heat Lamp and Accessories
Heat Lamp Stand
Item #557200 -For hanging heat lamps above brooders. Adjustable height allows user to control the surface temperature of the brooder floor.
$40.00 -
Heating Plates and Covers
Heating Plate, small (up to 20 chicks)
Item #540203 -A safer alternative to a heat lamp. A heating plate, or hover heater, simulates a hen keeping chicks warm and cozy beneath her feathers.
$55.00 -
Waterers and Accessories
Classic Waterer, 0.4 gal capacity
Item #540008 -Simple design for watering chicks that's easy to use and clean.
$6.40 -
Feeders and Accessories
Saturn 3 Feeder, 3 lb capacity
Item #540071 -Our favorite feeder for small to mid-sized flocks. Grilled pan reduces feed waste.
$11.50 -
Waterers and Accessories
Chick Stand
Item #540043 -Lifts poultry feeders and waterers away from the bedding in chick brooder pens.
$28.00 -
Treatments - Remedies
Coop 'N Compost
Item #540353 -Powerful granules absorb moisture and ammonia odors, creating a healthier environment in your coop.
$8.50 -
Treatments - Remedies
FlockLeader™ Healthy Coop™, 12 lbs
Item #540335 -Litter additive to reduce odor and wetness that can cause harmful bacteria and mold in and around the coop.
$34.00 -
Books
Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks Book
Item #981016 -Learn skills from selecting a breed to choosing an incubator. Covers chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys and guineas.
$29.95
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Robin G from Washington
I didn't read they were by the panel so I only got 1 panel. My bad.
Lotta B
Having always used makeshift brooders (large boxes, plastic tubs, even a lg aquarium) I finally decided to get this brooder! Wish I had done it from the start, panels are much larger than they appear in pictures, super easy to set up and clean off is a breeze. Stores flat for next time. Bought extra panels to make the area bigger as they grow! Love it!
Jennifer C from Michigan
Awesome panels that are really durable and easy to reconfigure!
Ellen J from Pennsylvania
We really like it. We got the plastic reusable ones. They are very sturdy and keep the baby chicks in. I thought that it would be a little taller and would be able to be used a little longer. But all the same I do think that it was a good investment for the spring when we raise our baby chicks.
Claudia S from West Virginia
The panels are not tall enough! My chicks, at just 10 days of age, were easily able to jump up to the top edge of the panels. Putting chicken wire across the top was a bother, for my frequent access to the chicks, bedding, and feed/waterers, so I cut panels of corrugated cardboard and taped them as vertical extensions on the panels, which seems to be discouraging escape attempts. Also a problem with these panels? Some of the reusable panels had ragged plastic at the edges. You definitely want to trim those "threads" off because my 3-day-olds were already picking at those ragged threads and I feared they'd break them off eventually and swallow a fatal plastic piece. Otherwise, I'm finding these panels an improvement over the large horse troughs I've used as my brooders in the past. The panels allow for lots more room for the chicks to run around! Also, the panels work very well with the Premier 1 tripod.
