Poultry Heaters

Poultry Heaters from South Africa – Gas heaters for chickens are called brooders. The best way to warm a poultry house is with a gas brooder – the gas heater gives instant heat where you need it. The Gasolec brooder is one of the better chicken heaters on the market in South Africa. Gas brooders fell from favor some years ago as the gas LPG price went up – and electricity was very cheap in South Africa. Things have changed dramatically and now the cheapest way to heat a chicken house, is with brooders for poultry. Chicken brooders, or poultry brooders as they are also known, are simple to operate, run on LPG (handigas) and can be set to switch on and off automatically with a thermostat.

When heating a chicken house you have several options – Gas heaters, electric brooders and a thing called a Heatco – which uses coal to heat and electricity to ran the fans that distribute the heat.

Gasolec chicken heater

Radiant heaters are gas heaters and electric heaters and the chickens move in and out of the hot spot that the gas brooder throws. A Heatco moves hot air through the poultry house – which means you have to heat the whole house instead of just the places where the chickens are – it also needs to be well monitored as the chickens cannot get away from the heat – as in a gas brooder.