Raising Baby Chicks -- Brooders: How to Use a Brooder or Build Your Own
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A brooder is your baby chicks' home for the first 6-8 weeks. Andy, "The Chicken Whisperer," the host of our "How To" series to help get you started with raising your own backyard poultry, tells you how to get started with brooders. Whether you build it yourself or purchase a professionally-made one this video covers what you'll need to know, including bedding, heating and watering and how to take care of your baby chicks.
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Andy Schneider, better known as the Chicken Whisperer®, has become the go-to guy across the country for anything chickens. He is the host of the very popular, Backyard Poultry with the Chicken Whisperer radio show, National Spokesperson for the USDA-APHIS Bio-Security for Birds Program, and author of, The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens. He has been featured on CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, as well as in TIME Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and countless other publications.