Commercial brooders are expensive and often don't give great access or visuals of the chicks to enable easy monitoring or even just to watch for fun.
Therefore, I designed a brooder out of a bird cage/rabbit cage multi-story which can be divided into 4 different compartments if required to brood chicks at different ages or just to spread them out as they get older and bigger.
The above video gives a run through of a cage brooder setup from lighting to flooring.
Right, I want to make this a straight forward quick post about how to make tamarillo fruit leathers. Often, I write rather long in-depth articles
How many chickens should you keep? How many chickens does the average newbie chicken keeper really need? Or, how many chickens should I start out
No matter where you live, as a gardener you always have some sort of constraints. Whether it’s climate, space, time, energy or just plain personal
This video shows how an everyday cheap storage box can be easily converted into an effective brooder for quail. It goes to show you don't
If you are like Mark and have more pumpkins than you know what to do with, this pumpkin and carrot puree is a very nice
Thinking about buying a lifestyle property to grow your own organic produce but aren't sure what to look for? Well, you're not the only one
Self Sufficient Me is a blog about self-sustainment by growing our own produce (plant/animal), and self-fulfilment by looking after our health (physical/mental) through exercise and slowing life down a little.
