Episode 92 Brooder to Tractor

G'day everyone and welcome to another episode of Not The Farmer's Wife. , recording on my own today. The handy helper has got some chores that he's doing around the farm so I've, , sent him on his way to do those. , but also too we have set up a different background here. As you can see my desk has moved and, , I am now facing a different direction in our lounge room. We live in a tiny house so, for those that don't know it's literally, we're probably about the size of most people's lounge, living, dining, kitchen areas is our entire house. So we have to be very, conservative with how we set things up. And we've managed to move my desk over into a corner that previously housed a budgie that We no longer have. And, and so I'm kind of sitting kind of in the corner of the lounge room now. Which is good too because, it's Christmas time and we just set up the Christmas tree. So the Christmas tree was set up where my desk was. So recording again, on video for those listening on podcasts. So hello to anybody on YouTube. And we're talking today about brooder to tractor. So in that meat process, in that meat. chicken growing process, what we need to be thinking about as far as from brooder to tractor in a bit more detail. And the main point of what you need to be doing is, although that's probably a bad word, the main thing you need to think about is if you are starting to grow meat birds for yourself, growing them from day olds is best. by far the most efficient and cheapest way to do it. And so to do that, you have to start with having them as day olds in a brooder house. So, I have got a couple of images here. I'm going to try and see if I can share my screen for a second, and show you, and it's just started raining outside, show you. These are, this is our brooder heat plate that we're actually looking at, stocking these on Amazon, because I have a store on Amazon, and I'm looking at stocking these. I got a hold of these from a guy in China. Everything's made in China, so there's no point trying to get an Australian made one. But this one is particularly good. I really like it. The heat plate underneath is not the same. I'm not too hot to touch. And I just wanted to show you our kind of brewery to set up and I don't have a long shot of it, but this is probably a good way of looking at it as far as, how we had it set up before we had a heat plants. So you can see there, there's a big globe lamp that sits over the top of the chickens. We had, Chickens separated by age. So we had some that were different ages. So we had just a timber board between the two Separating them and these feeders the handy helper made these up. These feeders are awesome They're just PVC pipe and he just literally drilled like a door handle kind of drill Yeah, the drill bits you get with the door handle thing He just literally drilled a cutout hole Out of them and the food goes down, we feed, fill it up from the top and it filters down and we just push it along at the bottom and you can see there's three little holes there so the chicks can all know they're not rushed to kind of eat. They can all eat at their own leisure. And get their head in without putting their feet in, which is a really important thing about a brooder house, you need to make it sure it's clean, and chicks will stand in their own, and they will, they'll stand in their food, they'll kick manure into their food, they'll shit in their food, they'll do all that kind of stuff. So, that's the other side brooder, which I think they had the heat pad in there. Yeah, they have the heat pad in there and we just have these little water containers and we only use the small water containers because we're checking them every day. I do want to get a drip feed system out there because I think a drip feed system is going to be cleaner.