Chick Brooder - 1 Layer H: 15"

We love the 15” brooder for our jumbo quail. More room and visibility. Easy to clean. We love HT products.

Order my brooder and it arrived 4 days earlier than expected! Took some time to put together, but not very difficult. Had a broken piece in shipping, emailed the company and they shipped out a replacement within a day. Very excited to get my chicks inside and try it out!

Great little brooder! My husband put it together for me in about an hour. It seems slightly complicated to piece together so I’m glad he volunteered. The heater fired right up and has been working great since. The smell of burning plastic was a little strong at first, just make sure it’s in a well ventilated place. It did come with 2 damaged pieces, which costumer service promptly replaced. I would definitely buy again!

I think this brooder is what I was looking for. Chicks are happy and healthy. Easy to keep clean. Love the idea that I can take this outside and spray with soap water and not have to worry about getting it wet.

Hands down the best brooder for brooding a small batch of chicks!!

I’ve tried so many options for brooding… from playpens to totes to homemade wooden brooders. All are messy, stinky and dusty. Food gets wasted, water gets everywhere (even with nipples!). This solves most of that.
The food stays in the trough and the water flows as needed to the chicks. They never once ran out of water because of a clog!

I was a bit unsure of this item because it seemed so unnatural for the chicks… no bedding to play in or practice dust bathing in… but they didn’t seem to mind. The chicks I had in here grew up as well adjusted as those as those I’ve in other brooder systems. I added a little plastic roosting thing from Tractor Supply where the heater didn’t reach and they slept on that at night.

Best part - It is such a breeze to pressure wash down in between batches! It took me 5 mins to clean down today in prep for the next batch of hatchlings.

Reasons for four stars:
1. There is no way this fits 12-15 6-week old chicks. Maybe if you’re ok with them sitting on top of each other… I had three 5 week olds in there and it was crowded, ha!
2. The grated floor isn’t big enough for 4+ week old chicken ****. I had to go in every couple days and wipe down/pick out the bigger poops that don’t make it through. You can upgrade to larger flooring for around 50$… which is a lot considering this brooder is already 360$.
3. As many other reviewers have pointed out going back through the years, there is no way to switch the light off without switching the heater off. This is a huge flaw in my opinion and not sure why it hasn’t been addressed yet… we overcame this by purchasing a wi-fi enabled smart bulb that I could turn off at bedtime and on in the AM. Which was another added expense.

Customer service answered every question I had and was very helpful! We will invest in more of these systems should we expand our hatching needs :)

We've now used this brooder for two batches of chicks and have since ordered a quail brooder and chicken grow out pen. This product has way more pros than cons. The cleanup is so easy. There is no smell from the chicks. Keeping the heat adjusted is so much easier than with a heat lamp. The chicks were happier and feathered out more quickly. We can keep more chicks in less space than using bins or troughs on the floor since it stacks. The company is super helpful and easy to work with. The only con is it was difficult to assemble the first one but the second and third went together quickly as I had done it before.

We just got our baby chicks today and so far so good! It feels pretty sturdy and well-made. I'm not sure how I'd feel about the plastic if I were planning for multiple hatchings, but since we're just planning to raise these and be done with the chick stage, I think it's more than adequate. I do think there could be some modifications made to the design to make it more user-friendly (for example, the water container just sits on top of the brooder when it should fit into place so it can't fall off, and same with the tray underneath, and I'd prefer if the legs were longer so we're not on the floor to watch our new additions), but nothing that's a dealbreaker. Overall I feel like this was worth the price to have a one-stop-shop option for everything we'd need for the first several weeks (other than food and water).

This brooder has changed my chick experience for the better. No more dust!

Kit arrived today. Missing parts. Tried calling support twice, rings to voice mail. No one returns your call.

There's a promise of a $25 off coupon if you sign up for emails. Did that, but the discount code failed to work.

We have a Mareks + flock, so need a way to keep new chicks isolated for a few weeks as their vaccine/immune system kicks in. We have done a variety of homemade and other brooder systems before, but they are difficult to keep clean, keep the smell down, and minimized waste with messy spilled and pooped in feeders/waterers. This takes all of that work out. I fairly quickly moved to the exterior feeder, which definitely eliminated waste and mess. I kept a puppy pad or paper towels in the tray below and easily switched that out 1-2/day keeping the smell and mess minimal.

As for heat, I put two little thermometers inside, one to far right and one to left. There was typically about 5-10 degree difference, which is great as the babies have some choice as to what temp they prefer.

I kept 7 full size pullets in there for 6 weeks, in a bathroom of my house and it was relatively painless. It was also easy to take it outside when I was done, give it a good rinse, and store it for next time (or if I need a henspital in the future).

My only feedback, I had seen already. I do wish there was a switch on the outside for the light, so you could switch the light off and keep the heat on. I just went in and took the bulb out every night , put it back in in the morning.

I also wish the water container up top had a more secure spot.

Overall, really appreciated this brooder!

Kind of flimsy design for how much it costs. Plastic panels are bowed, some even after snapping them together. The cheap plastic anchors that are supposed to attach the support frame screws to the brooder housing pullled out and the unit collapsed, so I have to figure out an alternative way to keep it all together. In my opinion, not worth the $350 price tag, but it's all I have with chicks coming in a few days, so I have to make it work.

I purchased this brooder a month or so ago and this is one of the worst manufacturing items I’ve ever experienced.
The ventilation is very poor, the wheels don’t stay on to the rods, and the water system needs work. The cups are hard to keep clean & stop overfilling so I put my own watered in there. The price of this doesn’t match the design quality at all. It’s a cheap plastic. It’ll get the job done but if I could do it over again I would have purchased the other company’s product I was debating on. Great idea, bad execution.

Great product for chick brooder very easy to clean very little maintenance once you get it setup. Is a little hard to put together and plastic pieces sometimes come bent had two of the chick brooders and both came with broken pieces or pieces that wouldn’t work right the first one never worked right but talk to customer service and ended up ordering another one and the second one was great only had one problem with the water system and contacted customer service and sent me a new piece and it has worked great and will definitely be ordering from them in the future if we need any chicken supplies the only other thing wish the heater had a separate switch for keeping heater on and to turn the light off

Assembly of this item is an absolute nightmare. Parts do not fit together and the structure falls apart constantly. Save your money and frustration and look elsewhere

I used to love these. I have one for my quail (9") and one for my chickens (15") Unfortunately, some of plastic pieces holding up the feeders broke on both units. Wish there was a way to get replacement holders, but it seems to be all one piece with the front, so that will probably be super expensive. Can't use my expensive brooders anymore because the feeders don't stay up.

Well I have five black Australopithecus five week old pulleys in the cage. They should be ready to go outside in five more weeks by the end of October. The design is excellent but I would prefer one inch square footing so the droppings can fall through as the chicks develop

If I could give this zero stars, I would!! Biggest piece of plastic junk I’ve ever purchased! Every single piece is made of plastic, (except the wheels) none of the clips lined up and after spending 2 hours trying to put it together, we ended up throwing the entire thing into the dumpster. I’m a contractor for a living so I’ve put my fair share of difficult pieces together, but this one is impossible due to its horrible manufacturing. Save yourself boat loads of money and buy yourself a plastic bin and put a wire top and heat lamp on it. Safer, cheaper and way better quality.

Love the new setup, getting a smaller one for the bantams

tray was broken but replaced, there is no switch to turn off the light so you must physically unscrew it to turn it off, needs a light switch. Temp is in C only, not standard in America, F would be nice also. need a smaller size for bantams but design allows for saving on feed especially with chicks, water is a good setup but the chicks still overflow the little buckets, will possibly remove and raise hight for nipple use only. Besides all that its a little pricey for the all-plastic design and no securing for heating units. If I was doing anything bigger I would opt for a larger more expensive units that can accommodate much more chicks for the price like at government lab enterprises, but this is good for the smaller lobbyist chicken keeper

We raise a variety of poultry and I was looking for something to brood turkey poults. They get tall quick and other popular stack brooders are just too short. The 15” brooder does the trick. I raise the waterer so they don’t perch and make it leak and the rest is history. We love this brooder.

I bought this brooder along with a growout pen. I raise bantams but this works well for them. There is definitely a certain way to put it together however it’s not really that difficult. My only problem is with the door openings for the birds to eat out of the tray; chicks can escape. However, I closed it down and placed a metal feeder inside the brooder. It maintains temperature well and the automatic watering is good.