I just finished one HUGE two week hatching marathon...actually at the tail end, then next weekend it starts again... Save yourself some trouble by getting everything ready in advance. Decide how you're going to brood them...all together (a pain if you mix waterfowl with land fowl) or in separate brooders, share a light, or individual lights, separate by size, whatever.
I chose to separate by species and size.
My seramas I have in a 6 gallon aquarium with pelleted bedding mixed with shavings,
the quail are in an old gerbil cage with tons of places to hid and lots of feeding places, etc.
The ducks/goslings are in a plastic pool with pelleted bedding only...it soaks up their water mess VERY well.
the varying chicks and keets I have mixed togather according to size in tupperware tubs with shavings.
I had a box for turkeys, but my babies died after two days of what I now know was a vitamin defficiency.
I use a single 250 watt brooder in my hatching/brooding room (it used to be a spare bedroom) and position the boxes closer or farther depending on what each box needs heat wise.
I also have a hospital cage for those too weak to go in with the others.
I keep small bins of feed labeled with each diet on the outside of the container in the room, and the huge bags of feed/bins outdoors with the rest of the poultry. I move the babies to the outdoors when they start handling cooler temps better...each batch tends to go around 3-6 weeks, depending on the species.
I also keep handy saran wrap and tape (for those that almost pull their belly out coming out of the egg)
spray bottle
small pitcher of water to refill water dishes
paper towels
sanitizer spray
tweezers
sewing needle
drawer liner pre-cut to hatcher/brooder size
pen/pencil/crayon and paper to keep track of what is due when, what happendd with each hatch, what might have gone wrong, etc.
I hope this helps you with your staggered multi- species hatch!
