Raising chicks? For a DIY chicken brooder, you'll need food and water, pine shavings and a heating plate.

This mobile DIY brooder box design works for broody hens or mail-order chicks and for both indoor and outdoor use. We’ve designed a secure, lightweight brooder box that is relatively easy and ...

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 ...

Chick-in-a-Box, however, was the catalyst for something else: a fun DIY book, “Reinventing the Chicken Coop,” published this month by Storey.