[HesterF]

Oh, I'm so glad this thread has started. How long would one of these brooders work with goslings before they're too tall for it? Does it completely cover the time until they're feathered enough to go outside on their own? How big is the enclosure you put it into? I can't really work out where to put it either - it can't go into the poultry run because I have no electricity up there or anywhere close but I'm also worried about putting them into an outhouse because I'd be worried rats would get them. Oh, and I think my husband would have a problem with them in the main house. So where do you put your little hatchlings?

I'm still hoping to use a broody but I can't see that many goslings will fit under her for long.

[FiB]

with you on the rats cats and no electricity to out buildings!  In the house for us untill they get too smelly - then shift them into utility room under the house (by which time they are at least bigger than a rat mouthful).  They do make a hell of a mess in the house (flapping sawdust dust out of their box) - but I couldnt not do it!

[Victorian Farmer]

please remember that a 150 lamp costs 1 pound a day i use 5 iv just had a winter bill for 520 2 sheds not doing it next yare

[gillsta]

Electric hens here. We have various sizes.Also home made wooden brooders and plastic rabbit hutches which are great. Was thinking about getting a few of the extendable brooder rings as well. We don't use heat lamps unless nothing else available as its far to expensive.

[sokel]

I actualy use the large zoozone rabbit/guineapig cages having the plastic sides right up the sides it cuts down on drafts and I can hang a 40 w bulb up from the bars above.
Never had to use higher than a 40w and never lost a chick