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Kay Tohline
Kay Tohline
12 years ago

Love your chicken tractor, have one like it. Works well. I wanted something more substancial but moveable. I bought a very used 16 foot RV, stripped it, put in perches and nesting boxed, used the bathroom closure to hold grain and things I did not want the birds to poop on or eat. I moved it around my 2 acre field, putting electric fencing around the coop, run on a car battery I recharged each Sunday to run the fence. I works wonderfully. Moving the rv with my suv is easy and moving the fencing is about an hours job, including everything. I recomend this chicken coop method highly. Love your podcast. Kay Tohline

Edward E Harper II
Edward E Harper II
12 years ago

Like the chicken tractor I wish I could raise chickens, but where I live you need 3 acres of land. Qual might be doable though since I could put them in my garage and the fact they are quieter. I am leaning toward rabbits though. Love your Pod Cast keep it going. Your an inspiration to us all.

Backwoods Engineer
12 years ago

Jack, I’m so excited about the possibilities with your new place. Good to see y’all already have livestock!

Dan
Dan
12 years ago

After having my girls for three years now it seems amazing how little they start out. Kinda like having the kids grow up.
By you personally having to move them to the run daily gets them trained to look for you for goodies and fun. Give them a chick, chick, chick call every time you move them, or give them scratch when older and they will always come running.

Alex in Austin
Alex in Austin
12 years ago

Is there hog panel or anything on the bottom? Would you have any issue with keeping them in the tractor overnight if you had hog panel on the bottom and a more secure top?

Mike
12 years ago

Awesome! Here’s a caption looking for a photo… “Chicks dig chicken tractors!”

havfaith
havfaith
12 years ago

What is your Temp there during the day? I have 10 Cornish hens and I can’t wait till I can put them out side. They are feathering out very quick. I think in another few weeks they can go out here in the Midwest.

I live in a smallish town. No chickens allowed. I have had 4 mixed cute eggers, all with even cuter names, for a year. Everyone should get a few, law or no law. They are such great “Pets with benefits”. Eggs are good and they are great tillers.

Shari

Charlie
Charlie
12 years ago

I like the tractor! A good simple, economical design. I just moved bunch of Black Australorp chicks into a coop with heat lamp and they are just having a ball. I’ll be building a tractor sometime soon and I might do it like yours since I have a bunch of pallets laying around. You know, as I watched this, I was thinking maybe you could pull the boards off one side of the pallet, flip it over and have the bottom slats for a rabbit tractor. I don’t know, because sometimes working from a pallet turns into more work than just building from scratch, but just a thought.

Jake Robinson
Jake Robinson
12 years ago

Do you reckon you could add an “axle” and put a couple of plastic wheels on one end and attach some 2x2s on the other end and move it like a wheelbarrow?

Anabel Lawton
Anabel Lawton
12 years ago

Another important thing to note is how much of the seed you are giving is actually just filler. Many less expensive feeds use a lot of filler, which the birds don’t generally eat and are basically a waste of money and can make a mess in your yard. Filler seeds include milo, sorghum, red millet and golden millet. Birds will push through these fillers to get the food they want, so it is more financially sound to choose one that is higher quality.’

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