Chick Brooder Panels
Our chicken brooder panels will make any size brooder you prefer. Can also be used as a brooder for other poultry including poults, duckling and goslings.
Panels sold, each
Common Uses
Specs
- Corrugated cardboard
- 16" tall x 25" long
- 3/16" thick
- Double-walled plastic, which is stiffer than cardboard
- Clean with soap and water
- 16" tall x 25" long
- 1/4" thick
How to Use
Six panels make a 37" diameter brooder.
Seven panels make a 50" diameter brooder.
If you are going to place the Heat Lamp Stand in the brooder, you will need 5 panels total in order for the stand to fit inside the brooder.
If the brooder is comprised of 4 panels, two of the stand's legs can fit in the brooder with two on the outside of the brooder.
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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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 -
Buckets and Troughs
TurboScoop, small
Item #938360 -Has a front-facing handle so it's uniquely easy to use and kind to wrists. Strong aluminum holds up to years of use without breaking or rusting.
$16.00 -
Heat Lamp and Accessories
Prima Heat Lamp® (bulb not included)
Item #557100 -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.
$44.50 -
Heat Lamp and Accessories
Heat Lamp Clip
Item #557040 -Sturdy clip for hanging heat lamps and other barnyard equipment. Spring latch securely holds lamps, feeders and waterers, even around ornery livestock.
$1.80 -
Heating Plates and Covers
Heating Plate, large (up to 50 chicks)
Item #540204 -A safer alternative to a heat lamp. A heating plate, or hover heater, simulates a hen keeping chicks warm and cozy beneath her feathers.
$85.00 -
Heating Plates and Covers
Cover for Heating Plate, large
Item #540206 -A safer alternative to a heat lamp. A heating plate, or hover heater, simulates a hen keeping chicks warm and cozy beneath her feathers.
$44.00 -
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 -
Heating Plates and Covers
Cover for Heating Plate, small
Item #540205 -A safer alternative to a heat lamp. A heating plate, or hover heater, simulates a hen keeping chicks warm and cozy beneath her feathers.
$21.00 -
Feeders and Accessories
Chick Tray
Item #540110 -A compostable cardboard tray that feeds young chicks that are learning to eat and scratch.
$2.70 -
Feeders and Accessories
Chick Tray
Item #540044 -Use this handy tray to provide a clean area to feed and water day old chicks. Easy to clean and heavy-duty.
$8.00 -
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
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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.
Rena V from New Mexico
I have 12 chicks and ordered seven to begin with. It wasn’t enough once you put in the heater, water, and food (ie free shipping due to $ amount). Then I ordered four more and paid more for the shipping then I did for the panels. I also learned that it works better to make a rectangle than an octagon, as you have to put the chicken wire over the top., so strips are easier. When I had it set up as an octagon one area sagged and 1 chick got out through the bottom and died. I also wish these were a little taller.
Diana C from Wyoming
Easy set up and easy to clean for multiple use.
James G from Wyoming
We are using the plastic panels for the first time this hatching cycle. Using it for both turkeys and chickens. We do not use litter. Instead, we use heavy kraft paper as a nonslip flooring material. Our brooder coop is well insulated and a couple 200 watt heat lamps is sufficient. We have four pens set-up in the brooder building and so far, are satisfied with the plastic panels. Probably lay some lightweight chicken wire over the tops when they start flying over.
