BROODER JIKO POT

This is a clay pot that resembles the traditional cooking pot. Lit charcoal pieces or briquettes are placed in the pot to burn and release convectional heat to the surrounding to keep the chicks warm. Chicks require heat for the first five weeks when feathers are developing. After this period, they can maintain their own body temperature.

With 1 to 2 kilo tin full of charcoal, this Brooder Jiko can run for up to 24 hours serving about 300 chicks. The brooder is made from refined clay. Clay soil is a non-metal,  a bad conductor of heat, so it keeps heat and loses heat much slower.
Apparatus made from clay keep foods warm longer than their metal counterparts.

The economical brooder borrows the same insulation property from traditional cooking pots. The holes allow for entry of oxygen into the charcoal chamber to support burning.Because the holes are few and around the neck of the pot, the injury risk to the chicks is low.
The holes at the top of the pot also help in regulating the amount of oxygen entering to give prolonged hours of burning.