GQF Universal Brooder Box 0534

A couple parts arrived damaged and the replaced them with no charge. The brooder is amazing. I normally DIY things in glad I passed on this project. Well worth the money in the long run.

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We love it

Really worked with me to get this purchase done!

I have been raising meat chicks for 5 or 6 years now and could never "justify" spending the money on a brooder....All i can say is i wish i had got one sooner. Absolutely worth it.

Great brooder works exactly how it says it does keeps chicks healthy and strong until it's time for them to be moved to grow out pens

Works great

Bought this for quail chicks. I put this in my unheated garage. I bought a welding blanket from harbor freight to cover to help insulate.. has been working good and holds temp.

I really like these brooders! It took us a little while to get the kinks ironed out though. The first one we ordered had a defective heater that fluctuated a lot and then stopped working altogether, but GQF sent a new one out no questions asked when I contacted them. The second one got a little dented in the cover and litter tray during shipping, but not enough to impact functionality. A feed sack trimmed and cut open does work as a tray liner, but so far I found the easiest and most effective liner is a roll of 30" wide kraft paper that I ordered online -- I cut 38" lengths and those fit in the tray nicely (without sticking up and making it difficult to replace the tray the way a feed sack can). For the first three or four days, I put the food and water trays inside the brooder instead of hanging on the outside, so that they could understand where food and water was. That way, once I stepped up to hanging them on the outside, it was an easy transition (and they were big enough to not escape out the openings to the troughs).

I do think the manufacturer is too optimistic in their numbers of chicks that the brooder can accommodate (at least for meat birds). I have 48 heritage meat chicks (they get to be butcher weight in 12-14 weeks, so slower growing than a Cornish cross) in each brooder that are just turning 2 weeks old and it is pretty crowded-- I definitely could not have all of them in one brooder! However, I am overall very happy with this investment.

My GQF broader was purchased over 20 years ago and is still running well. The only parts replaced were blue bulbs and a wafer one time. It runs approximately four months per year keeping custom hatched chicks warm, up off the floor and provides three long attached troughs for food and water. This brooder was one of the best investments I made concerning poultry.