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[hallerlake]

What is a brooder tote?

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[Rainwolf]

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[Rainwolf]

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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

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

What size totes do you use, and how many chicks do they hold and for how long usually?

 

[Rainwolf]

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The baby one is 11 gallons and the hold the quails best or chickens first week
The large one is twice the size.. so maybe 22-25 gallons? (no sticker on these any more)
I make sure the lid can snap lock so that it can't be bumped off.

The small holds about 10 chickens for a week or 50 quails for a week then they either go to the larger one or get divided by colors etc.. until they are not crowded.

The quails which I raise the most of are only inside for 3 weeks.
Then they go to the outside brooder for 2 weeks,
then a wire bottom grow out cage for 2 weeks
then to either the boys cage or the breeding cages.

They take 17 days to incubate and 6-8 weeks to start laying/breeding.

I normally only have my quails for 3 weeks since I have many local people who buy them as soon as I get them feathered at 3 weeks of age. So I mostly use the small totes and divide based on colors.
I have a few big ones for when I grow out chickens or a large batch of quails for freezer camp.

Heres a couple small totes with button quails growing up inside.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Cool! Thanks!!

 

[rickerra]

After being coaxed to broaden my horizons beyond the 'Eastern Washington' locale thread... I thought I poke my head in here and say "Hi!"

I'm a soon-to-be first time chicken...

... raiser? rangler? guy? haha. Looking for a nice 3-4 hen backyard flock... for eggs and for fun.

I've been getting excited about chicks. Got my brooder all setup. Got my coop plans... ready to start building that.
But now I'm thinking I want to hatch my own chicks. I've got time... since I would like chicks around 1 March for my boy's B-day.
What cooler way to experience the cycle of life together, than starting from an egg?

So anybody in the greater Spokane area have any fertile eggs available in the next week or so?
I really like the Wyandottes, BO's, Australorps, Delaware's, BR's... but am open to what's available.

Cheers!

 

[ReiMiraa]

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We have a 509 thread?

 

[rickerra]

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=353771&p=1

No where near as active as this one!

 

[Tailfeathers]

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Hi, you need to look for Jean Ribbeck (Pips N' Peeps" on BYC) for one. She's got Ameraucanas and you're neighbors believe it or not as she's in Newman Lake. Also, Google "Tony Albritton" or check the White Pages. He's near Spokane somewhere. He recently started his own hatchery and is selling not only Heritage Breeds but Show Quality (SQ) birds at that. His SQ Barred Rocks at the Winter Brisk Show were tremendous and I believe he took Best of Show with a Black Langshan.

God Bless,