Tetuga Brooder Box for Chick Starter Kit - Brooder Pen/Chicken Supplies Brooder Box with Ideal Size Brooding Up to 15 Chick, Duck and Quail(Red)

Excellent! Perfect for hen and 9 baby chicks! I feel comfortable keeping them in this, in our barn. Zippered closures make me feel better about potential snakes not being able to get in. Three mesh windows (1 door) and mesh top give plenty of ventilation. We have a heat lamp hanging a couple feet above the center opening and the vinyl doesn’t get too hot. Super easy to clean and hose out. Dries quickly. Chicks are almost 3 weeks old and still comfortable in this at night with the hen.

So much safer than the warming lights!! And it works well. Of course, it's not wise to use this warming method outside in cold weather, as some might have tried, but in a protected area, it's great. My girls have pretty much grown out of this now, but I will certainly continue to use it for the next batch!

I chose to use this setup for my baby chicks this year, for the last 6/7 weeks and it held up great! Here are my pros and cons with it! Pros: -Airflow on the sides and top helped cut out the smell tremendously -Heat plate worked as intended, and loved being able to raise and lower it based on chicks -The price of this setup really can't be beat -Fairly spacious until chicks reach that 5-6 week mark -Love that it packs away easily for next year! -Easy to clean, just use a small trash bag and scoop out all the bedding you can, then just use the mat when most of it is out and dump it in the bag. (Some bedding will go under the mat too) Cons: - After the first week or two, you will definitely need to buy a bigger feeder and waterer -When you use the side zipper for running the cord of the heat plate through, somehow every day there would be a small opening in the zipper. So you'd need to rezip it fully so bedding won't go out. -I had 8 chicks in here until fully grown and it started to get really tight at the end. I wouldn't put more then 10 in there. -The mat for the inside is definitely not the best as lots of bedding will find ways under it, but it's not too hard to clean Overall I would recommend this product to anyone whose planning on 10 or less chicks, especially for the price and functionality of it.

I love this thing. I love that it can be packed up and put away when not in use so that it doesn't take up space, unlike solid brooders. The heating plate has worked great for both baby chickens and quail. For the quail, I pile a little extra bedding up where I'm going to place it to give it some extra height because they're so much smaller than chickens when they first hatch. The brooder box itself is pretty spacious. We had 6 chickens in it and 13 quail. It was large enough that space wasn't an issue when we put both the chickens and quial outside at 4 weeks old during the summer. Any longer and space would've started becoming an issue.

All the years I've had chicks, weve used heat lamps, which always stressed my husband out because of the fire risk. This time around I decided to try a heat plate and am so glad I did! I love the ability to adjust the temp. I'll definitely keep this for years to come!!