Chicken Tractor
Being a pastured-based, grass-fed operation has many advantages in terms of protection of the environment, healthiness of our meats, sustainability, and protection of heritage breeds. One of the major components of this operation is our pastured-poultry operation using our chicken 'tractors', mobile chicken coops on wheels. The beauty of these coops is that they allow us to move the birds around the pasture evenly distributing manure and helping to keep our pastures fertile and clean. Mesh…
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Turn Old Pallets Into a Chicken Tractor!
Turn Old Pallets Into a Chicken Tractor!: Learn how to use old, discarded (free!) pallets to build a chicken tractor, reducing your carbon footprint and making your chickens happy!Here's the ~9-minute video version: What Is A Chicken Tractor?A chicken tractor is a movable chicken cage, all…
Chicken tractor/portable coop
Someone mentioned chicken tractors/portable coops. I made one from an old trailer that was no longer road worthy. $1 studs, windows from Habitat ($5 each), closout shingles, and on sale OSB. One 'expense' was the cedar shakes for the siding to make it look decent as it is on the side or in front of the house. Still have some painting to do. I've uploaded a photo and will try and attach it to this post if the computer Gods are with