Brooding is the period immediately after hatching when special care attention must be given to chicks to ensure their health and survival and the process by which heat is supplied to newly hatched chicks, until such time that their thermo-regulatory mechanism is functional. The objective of this research work is to make use of locally available materials to construct an automated poultry brooding system and to test the constructed brooder. The brooder was constructed in a symmetrical two sided roof (gambrel roof) structure of height 87cm, width 62cm, and breath of 62cm. Programmable Logical Controller was used as an environmental controller in order to direct the heater and humidifier in order to control the environment. The result of the tested brooder gives us an efficiency of 84.5% making use of the observed maximum temperature of the brooder. Therefore the brooder was constructed in a portable form for ease of handling and to help farmers brood their chicks.