Post by WVsnowflake on Apr 12, 2008 17:55:08 GMT -6
Right now—while the ground is covered with ice and snow?is the time to hie down to the workshop and whip out one of these simple little outdoor brooders. Then, when you're ready to raise that mini-flock of homestead chicks next spring or summer, you'll be all set?just like Linda and Bill Bayliss of Pleasant Lake, Michigan?to handle the job in style.
Most homesteaders would never think of crowding their laying hens together in a cramped, windowless enclosure (the way today's commercial poultrymen do). And yet, a good many small-scale farmers willingly foster just such conditions when it comes to raising chicks.
www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1977-01-01/A-Quick-and-Simple-Outdoor-Brooder.aspx
Most homesteaders would never think of crowding their laying hens together in a cramped, windowless enclosure (the way today's commercial poultrymen do). And yet, a good many small-scale farmers willingly foster just such conditions when it comes to raising chicks.
www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1977-01-01/A-Quick-and-Simple-Outdoor-Brooder.aspx
