New Farmhand Builds A Joel Salatin Style Chicken Brooder!
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- čas přidán 9. 01. 2022
- New Farmhand Builds A Joel Salatin Style Chicken Brooder!
Today we want ya'll to meet our new farmhand, Jame Welborn! Jame is taking on a big project and building us a new megabrooder for our pastured poultry chickens.
This is an 8x8 brooder similar to ones that Joel Salatin has used at Polyface farm in the past.
Check out some of the features and take a tour of our new brooder!
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Great build!
Good to see a fellow EMS guy doing something outside of the truck.
Agree 100%. Jame is a great guy and looking to do something different. Appreciate y’all watching
Thank you sir! And thanks for watching!
I am starting year 25, some were volunteer years, others full time and then some, now it's a part time (home health nurse full time). I now live at the old home place and want to start doing some small scale farming.
Jame is my hero!
Mine too. He’s a good carpenter!
@@SheratonParkFarms excellent addition to any farm!
He did a fine job
You’re my hero Mack!
The brooder looks great. Good luck moving it. Some pallet fork extensions would come in handy for big objects like that.
Exactly. The other farm Jame works at sent a set of them over for us to use. I think that will help a bunch.
Should have told them no and then I would have had a great excuse to buy a set. 😆
Excellent work 👍👍👍 . Thanks for sharing
Appreciate y’all watching
Joel Salatin mentioned something about keeping it off the ground to protect from rats. Apparently they squeeze in real small spaces, but you have a little off the ground they have to take the time to climb, which is when the cats do their job.
Yeah. We are going to lift our a few feet off the ground.
Welcome to and thanks to Jame for this video. May God bless him in his new career!
Thank you!
Brooder gone wild lol
🤣. No kidding!
Buy some extension forks, that will help move brooder better. Blessings
We’ve borrowed a set from other farm Jame works at. Should make the job a lot easier! Great idea. Thanks for watching
Farm is looking awesome great build enjoy all your videos and learning for our own small farm. Thank you.
Hello great video. Have you thought about putting it on a trailer frame. To move it around when you don't need it.
Yeah. We’ve thought about building a 2nd one and put them both on a big hay wagon.
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That’s super nice 👍🏼 great job love this video great job Jamie love your overalls!
Thanks. Appreciate y’all watching.
Thank you!
Really nice brooder! I might build a mini sized one.
Thanks. Be easy to scale it down.
Nice to see him be able to build it from a picture. Nice looking brooder, it would be nice to have it on a set of wheels so you can move it easily. Make life easier to clean out or to put chicks on pasture.
I couldn’t tell, how much over lap did your shingles have? I believe you need an inch and half to keep water from running inside and down your 2x4’s, otherwise water will pool up and rot out your boards. With it being outside you may also need 2x4’s at least every 24” to help carry the snow load of the roof, the basic load.
Yeah. He’s a talented guy. We didn’t do a big overhang. May need to toss a tarp over it and I may put it on a trailer and bring it into the barn in the winter.
Great job Jame! Very nice brooder!
Thank you!
That's a nice one bud hope it provides for y'all a long time
Jamie is a keeper...as well as a natural in front of the camera! Tim in northern TN
Thank you Tim! And thanks for watching! I don’t consider myself much of a public speaker 🤣
Great video! My live stock trailer, is 80 SQ ft. Makes a very good brooder. I need to build this brooder to free up my trailer.
Nice looking brooder. Done an awesome job.
Thank you!
Very cool! Great video!
Me and my dad have used 2 peices of 6" pvc 8' long as fork extensions that work good.
I don’t see how you get in it and get to the birds. Or clean it out.
IDEA FOR MOVING: attach long steel rods under front and back and mount wheels and use as a rolling chassis OR place the brooder on top of a hay wagon. Tim
That's a Beaut Chuck!
Couple of thoughts...
The sectioned fold down front is brilliant. I wish I had done that with the ones I built. I had planned on a small fold up section on the side, but your big fold down on the front is much better..
One thing I did find too be hard that you might run into is trying to corral the chicks too the opening. Ours was a bit too tall, deep and wide to just reach in and grab them. Yours is much bigger. It may be hard to force them ask over to where you want them. If you have or find an easy way, I'd love to know.
One thing I really regretted and plan to fix for this year, and that you may want to consider doing, it's lining the bottom with linoleum or vinyl flooring. It would make cleaning the old bedding out, so much easier!!
One last thing I noticed is, sometimes for warmth, we would cover one of the fold up hardware cloth lids with a cut out sheet of insulation. Even with nothing on, but especially with one side covered, we had lots of problems with dust and particulate in the air inside the brooder. Even with premium low dust shavings, it was enough to concern me. I would suggest throwing an exhaust fan on one of those top side areas too draw dust and dander and what not out of the brooder.
Just some thoughts. Either way, it looks great!!
Thanks,
Richard
You need to cover the inside framing on the drop down doors or you are gonna have a mess when you go to scape out the litter.
Also you need to give those flip up top lids framing support or they will warp and also pull out the fasteners on the hinges.
The hold up support that holds the lid open. Notch the bottom so it locks into place on the wall frame top sill. It will prevent it from being knocked off by accident with someone with half their body leaning in and causing a injury.
Wilkes Co boys gittin 'er done.
Nice build.. giant brooder! May need to use a 1/2 tall pig board sized light weight board to herd /move chicks around in that one.
Glad to see you now have good farm help.
Make some fork extension's , my neighbor has some that are 9' they work great moving my pig huts and chicken tractors when I want to store them . Good job !
Y'all know about 'Polyface Designs'? - this book has everything you need to know to build this and other neat proven structures, list of materials, dimensions, and tips.
Any who, it looks great!
Hurricane proof. 👍
What about a partially transparent corrugated roof to get some greenhouse effect in March-April?
Nice effort. Couldn’t really understand what he was saying, but awesome brooder.
Thanks. Appreciate y’all watching.
You might put wheels on it and pull it
Thinking we may put it on a trailer to move it around.
Looks good! Hey Chuck haven’t seen anything on the egg layers, where are they? Are you doing away with that enterprise?
Please can I get a direct estimate of the exact materials used. It’s kinda hard to tell from the video alone. I love your work so much, and I’d love to make a replica. Please help me
What is the estimated cost of the large brooder. With the price of lumber currently.
Thanks for sharing this. I was looking to build a couple small brooders similar to your small ones, but this reminded me that Joel has plans for this in his book. I will definitely be putting one of these together shortly (It's supposed to be sub zero here the next few days) and I'll put mine on 4x4 skids to make it portable. Keep up the great content.
Thanks. So I looked in the book after we finished this and didn’t know it was like his. We just saw a picture and copied what we thought the picture was. Turns out it was a Salatin brooder. Appreciate y’all watching
Where’d you get the chickens a from?
What music is playing at the start of this video?
It’s called “Dude Where’s My Horse”. It is stock music from CZcams for creators to use in their videos. I love it! Thanks for noticing
Awesome job... However I'm hoping you don't have preditors: rats, racoons, etc. Because I'm pretty sure anything hungry enough could chew or tear through that plastic ventilation material. Good luck to you on this growth process
are you talking broilers or Layers?
Good video. I still have a hard time believing that you charge folks for those brooder plans 🤦♀️
Thanks for watching. The plans are just another product we sell like chicken, pork and beef. This is a business and we have to keep the lights on.
@@SheratonParkFarms I thought We as viewers watching though the many commercials during your videos help keep your lights on. My mistake. I’ve watched y’all for a long time, included y’all in my nightly prayers…but now I see it all comes down to money. I get it. And I’ll move along. Because y’all don’t need people like me that just watch the amazing content you put out. I really thought y’all cared about people more than just “keeping your lights on”. (Edit: just to let everyone know that we are referring to the small brooding plans that are for sale in the amount of $4.99. ) I personally would donate money to y’all if I felt it would help you personally as a farmer. But if it is just about the business of making money then I’m sadly disappointed because I really thought y’all stood for more than that with your channel.
Can’t believe you expect them to be given to you... why don’t you design a brooder and put of free plans for them?
@@tammykaltreider just copy the video duh 😂 may not turn out exactly the same but who cares, it’s your own design then
@@dfishman76 I have supported this channel almost from the beginning. Sharing, commenting, encouraging, bragging on this channel…then it became all about the money. The plans are not much at all. But that is not the point. The point is with out the CZcams audience I’m not sure that @Sheraton Park Farms would be where they are today. I always thought of the channel as a community but sadly I was wrong.
what is the maximum capacity?
I am not sure if its enough space for 250 chickens
That's not a chicken brooder, that's a grain trailer w/o wheels yet!
Dude,where's my horse?
Yep. That’s it. Use it in about every video.
Wow, Sheraton Park Farms, you have been featured in our recent video! Come check it out!
Recently we built a Salatin style chicken brooder from the plans in the Polyface Designs Book. We made our brooder 5'x 8' to use available materials.
We thought it would be fun to take a look at how others modified their brooders. Come with us as we visit!
czcams.com/video/qjnSPr6qQuE/video.html
Sue with Get to the Farm
Why don't you leave that music out and let us watch the carpenter build the broader. WE hear enough NOISE IN THE WORLD it would be nice to have sounds of saw and hammer
250 broiler chicks to 3wks feathered out size in that space???. You sure about that!?! I am not seeing it and I have a good bit of experience raising broilers. 8x8 minus wall thickness is what 60sqft. That's only ¼sqft per chicken. That's fine for maybe a week. Those broiler chicks are not small at 3 wks. That would be standing room only and a absolutely stupid amount of manure in that spacing. For me that size is good for 100-150 chicks to 3 wks max. Sorry but anything less that ½sqft is a very bad idea. Just think about it. Each chick at ½sqft has a 6"x6" square of total space. But you still have to put in feeders waterer.
Sorry but 100 chicks is all I would EVER have grown out to 3 wks in an 8x8 outside frame size brooder. Increasing that to 2.5x that amount is foolish.
Will this work outtdoors during winter?