One of the clever things we’ve done is use our brooder, stocked with chicks, to heat the porch. We then place our seedling flats above the chicken brooder’s heat lamps, on a table or atop 2-by ...

On the other end of the brooder, set up a heat lamp. If you have your chicks in the living room where it’s 65 degrees at night, a 100-watt incandescent bulb in a clamp-on utility light (the kind with ...

A safer but more expensive option is a heating plate such as the Brinsea EcoGlow brooder, which looks like an inverted tray mounted on four legs and produces low heat without any lights. Chicks ...

they need auxiliary heat longer than chicks brooded in warmer weather. For this reason, chicks hatched in winter or early spring typically require brooder warmth longer than chicks hatched in late ...

The energy efficient jiko works in such a way that the heat that is used for cooking also warms up the chicks brooder. [PHOTOS: JAMES MUNYEKI] Thomas Gichuru was out to make a difference.