Your design works great for an enclosed quail house, but most folks keep their birds outside. I really like your set up and have a small amount of envy as I keep my quail in a 10ftx10ft enclosed section of a 30ft covered layer run with 3 layer stacked 2x8ft cages. I use tortoise 3ftx2ft habitat with modifications. Half of the habitat has a screened door hinged the other 1/3 over the sleep area also has a hinged door but it's solid. The end panel slides out. I staple 1/2" hardware cloth on that opening which gives me the option to close off brooder for first few days and then open during daytime warmer days and close off during night. I don't install the sleep house partition and staple 1/2 coated hardware cloth on the underside making it easy maintenance like yours. The brooder is elevated a couple inches with simple block feet on the corners and use a dog kennel plastic tray as the poop pull out. I use nipple container on the outside of the brooder and a simple plastic feeder tray like you use. Clamp lights with 75W and if temps are really warm reptile ceramic bulbs keep chicks warm. I easily keep 50-60 chicks for 2-3 wks and then transfer to battery cage with overhead warming plate. I could build something like yours, but my skills are far from yours and it would end up costing me more than buying this $100 set up. I have two of these modified as brooders and keep on a 24"x60" table out in the run. If the night temps fall I can always throw a loose tarp over the set up to hep keep out drafts. Two of these modified habitats can handle a 120 hatch egg order at 75% hatch rate. Just another option for folks like me who can't really construct things very well. I appreciate your sharing your set up and designs, I've learned many tips. tortoise habitat - www.amazon.com/PawHut-Tortoise-Habitat-Tortoises-Enclosure/dp/B07VSFRM2B/ref=sr_1_8?crid=32EXYL7INNIHS&dchild=1&keywords=tortoise+enclosure&qid=1598017667&sprefix=tortoise%2Caps%2C201&sr=8-8 tray - www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000TZ5BZK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Wonderful! I also love everything to be easy to move around, and I am going to adapt your "hinge" to open the brooder to some of my builds. Keep inventing!
Your channel has been super helpful. We just started our channel in January and picked up some quail yesterday. I’ll be building hutches like what you have here! Thank you. 👍🏻
That looks like an excellent brooder with a lot of thought going into its design and construction. I especially liked the tips on adding the wheels, using the cabinet shelf lining, and epoxying the surfaces to make it more durable and able to stand up to cleaning.
Hi Terry, will you coming out with video showing how many pieces wood and lengths, size that I need to building stacked cages? Also I bought the water cup but not a let to finding t part PC at home depot. Where did you b uh y yours? Thank so much for your help and wonderfully helpful videos from you!
Hey Terry this brooder is nice about to start my hobby quail farm and you have helped tremendously building your incubator now next is this but can't get to the cut list link guess I'll just have to wing it lol. Love the videos thanks for all you've done and all that's to come keep up the great work
Excellent :) The idea is simple and awesome. You are always giving us new methods to renew our minds and make things easier for us. Lots of thanks Expert Terry.
Great job Terry! I enjoy seeing your videos and your content has inspired to get some quail. Will be looking forward for new content and your collaboration Myshire Farm.
Great video thank you so much for sharing I do hope you will do a how too for this brooder as I already built 2 of your cages and need a brooder to go with them. Looking to start a quail business soon.
Would really love a build video of this one as well! I'm Hating plastic tubs! Do you like the regular incandescent light? Or would using a heat lamp with a temp controller be better? Which would be more efficient? Especially in a climate with winters? Thanks for the great videos!
Thanks Terry. I've almost got your stacked cage build finished and I have an incubator. Concerning the brooder, how far is the heat lamp from the floor. How critical is temperature ?
Mine is very similar. I used 1/2" mesh on the floor so I leave the shelf liner in for 4-5 days and also on day 5 I have them drinking from the auto water cups so I dont have to fill water and also from day one I have them eating out of a j feeder and by day 5 they are fully on the water cups and j feeder so week 2 is easy.
With the divider installed I put 50 chicks per side. But I do remove them at just under two weeks and put them in the growout pens. Any longer than that it starts to get crowded.
My brooder has been converted over to 1/2" hardware cloth. The 1/4" didn't allow for the manure to fall through. I now put blue shop towels down for the first three days, then remove it allowing the chicks to be directly on the wire. Seems to be working just fine.
I’m trying to get started I just about got all my stuff ready I can’t find anyone close to me to buy some live birds !!! Do you know where I can get some????? I live in Panama City
Thank you so much for your videos I need this exact thing I'm not a builder is do you know anyone that can build this for me I would greatly appreciate it. I will pay for time and materials even shipping. I tried to hit your link to the cut list but nothing comes up I have 26 birds now they are almost 2 weeks old and what I have isn't sufficient. Please any help would be appreciated
Sir, I my locale (Philippines) nothing approaching the size and quality of your "clean-out trays" is available. Can you please provide the name, model, and manufacturer or purchase source in USA??
I keep my cages pretty clean so there is no smell. Also I use pine shavings in the manure trays which help control moisture, dry manure has no smell. Thanks for the comment!
Terrie I just downloaded the cut list and it looks like you have the wire sizes backwards from what you have here. 1/4" on the floor per the vid and pics and you list 1/2" as floor in the cut list and 1/4" for the lid.
@@CoturnixCorner hi Terry, I'm trying to looking for the metal on advance auto part on line and did not finding it? What do I need to asking the auto part sale person for the metal trays to use on bottom of quails cages? Thanks!
Ok, going to say it. You have got to stop building these projects! I cant keep up with building them myself! Every time you build something, I have to go out and build 1 also!
That’s not a self cleaning brooder… That’s just a brooder with a wire floor. I can’t imagine that a wire floor is good or pleasant for young chicks. in fact, I don’t entirely like the idea of a mesh floor for adult birds. I keep mine indoors in an enclosure I built myself with dirt, and it needs little to no maintenance. I haven’t cleaned it or swapped out the dirt for three weeks now and it’s fine. and they endlessly dig in the dirt. if you want to see what kind of enclosure it is, I’m on Instagram as babyquailadventure.
