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I have a bunch of clear Sterilite Plastic Totes. I then cut out the center part of the lid and zip tie in wire so that the babies can not hop out. It makes for very easy cleaning as I have a small stack of clean totes.
I just grab clean tote, transfer babies from dirty to clean, take dirty outside, dump contents in the compost pile, hose out tote, wash with bleach water, let dry, stack in clean stack.
This allows me easy sterile way to keep the babies clean and healthy and the totes are the right size for my inside brooding shelf inside where I can keep a eye on them until the go to the outside brooders.
When I'm not using the totes for brooders they can still be used for storage in my garage/basement
Could you tell me how you do the wire exactly? I love those brooder totes. It looks like you've put some sort of black plastic around the edge? Do you need a drill and wire cutters and what else??? Assume I'm a construction idiot who only picks up a hammer to hand it to someone else.... I am.
you need something to cut the tote lid... I use a dremel and drill holes around the edge of the opening.
some wire or screen to fit the opened area
if wire use wire cutters
I use electric tape for the edge to cover any sharp corners. but duct tape works too
and zip ties to hold the wire down to the top
Its very simple but takes a little time to cut the lid.
hope this helps.. maybe I'll take photos of my unfinished one as I put it togetther but its already cut/drilled
