ladybrasa
Songster
At my TSC (VA): This year my store - and apparently all in the area - switched to these new brooders with the wire bottoms. My store used Hoover last year, but this year it’s a different place and so far none of the employees I have asked know from where. One employee I talked to today said they have had a lot of deaths, hard for staff to reach in and grab one chick - apparently they can all pour out, and actually not easier to clean because they have to scrub the grates from the poo. From what it looks to me is the heat source is a heat plate in the center of each level but they’re way too high. My understanding is it needs to be very low so the chicks can touch them. They were definitely piling together.