Our brooder set-up!
Murray McMurray Hatchery has helped make the preparation for our chickens very easy. Their
book: “Chickens in Five Minutes a Day” is awesome! It’s an easy read and tells you everything you need to know about raising chickens. We also got one of their starter kits. This kit included a roll of cardboard to create the brooder guard, 2 containers for the water, 2 feeders, an infrared bulb to heat the brooder, and a thermometer to help keep the correct temperature. We got the brooder set up in the storage room in our basement, laid some soft pine bedding down, and prepared a home for our baby chicks. We have started learning about the different breeds we were going to be getting. We are prepared, and getting really excited for the day our chicks arrive. Our kids (we have a 2 month old girl and 3 boys – ages 7, 3 1/2, and 2) are especially excited and counting down the days until the baby chicks arrive in the mail.
