Tiered Brooder

[Toasty525]

I've grown tired of my on the floor brooder boxes and I'm trying to build a 3 tiered brooder hutch. We have a similar hutch for some quail breeder sets. I've had a hard time finding any info online but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place. I have seen the Hatching Time Brooders that stack but they are so expensive and I would like wood over plastic. So this is what im thinking. Mesh floors for poop to fall through. Wood along the back, hardware cloth along the sides and front door. Thinking of using either a reptile heat light (like the small ones), or maybe one of those ceramic heat lamp bulbs, or a brooder plate. I'm not a fan of the brooder plates with having to change the height of them and how bulky they are so i'd like to try to use the lamps. I'm thinking of each box to be 24inches tall 2feet wide and 4 feet long. They will be indoors so im not worried about a roof. Thinking of using a flat wood top for each one if i want to hang a feeder. I use the rent a coop waterers so i'll attach it to the side through the wire.

Attached is an image of my quail breeder hutches for refrence.

 

[rosemarythyme]

You didn't clarify but is this new build still for quail or are you switching to chickens?

If chickens I wouldn't have wire floors at all - you don't want birds on the top pooping on ones below, and the wire would be hard on their feet. They should also have substrate they can dig into which further negates the point of the wire floor.