You all are always so precise and knowledgeable about the things you do and raise. I would like to see if you ever make a boo-boo. Some may be humorous and some may not be, but it would be interesting to see how you handle your mistakes, if you make any.
Do you ever do a show on how to kill and clean a chicken. I really enjoy you and your husband you make everything interesting. Breaking things down and make it easier for us to try doing what you do thank you
We made smaller chicken runs for our little chicken houses based upon your rabbit tractor design, open at one end to allow access to the house. We wrap the mesh right around the whole thing (less the 'door' end and it adds strength to the whole thing and is speedy as no need to cut it just staple along as you unroll it! We currently have 60+ chicken eggs and 30+ quail eggs in the incubators ready to start this years run of poultry off. Another awesome inspirational upload, thank you so much for all you do here on TH-cam from the Highlands of Scotland. 🏴 👍 🐥
Sarah is a great help! tractors look great! We used to buy 10 Cornish x, butcher and then get 10 more...this year..we will order 20 and build another chicken tractor for the other 10...20 birds in our freezer is plenty for us...we also have 5 rabbit kits that should be ready for butcher by end of March...we will re-breed and hope for better litters when the weather is warmer...Thanks again for great teaching and showing us how you are doing it!
Loved the chicken tractor. Nice and clean. Great job! I think I'll make one like it with 2 doors on top instead of 1. We have some chickens that are more prone to fly out. Thanks guys for everything you do from down in Texas.
If you have a plastic mineral tub that is cracked you can cut a section of it and screw to the front corners of the tractor, with the curve up. It really makes dragging the tractor around easier.
Dear Sarah and Kevin, I have been a silent subscriber for years. I live in Germany and funnily enough, I worked in HR and my husband in IT. I just quit the rat race a few weeks ago to dedicate my time to do our garden and animals. I wish me and my husband would once be such a successful homsteading team such as you guys. I am still working on convincing him. We're currently working on our first chicken house... thank you for sharing and being so inspiring.
@Michael and Rebecca thank you Rebecca! The right property will come! We're no too far away on the border between saxony and saxony-anhalt.... the Harz is wonderful and we visit often for weekends with the kids.
Great Video. My son lives in Idaho and told me that he needed to build a chicken tractor, and asked for advise. We both looked a lot on the internet and checked out the designs that were out there. You win! We both found your design independently and both tried to tell each other of the great design at Living Traditions Homestead. Easy to build, light weight, and can be handled by one person. We rated your design on a scale of 1 to 10 as an 11. By son has a bad shoulder and will be adding wheels to one end to make it easier for the 9 year old to move it. Great Job!
One tractor is great...two tractors are terrific!!! A couple of 'roost' poles is each tractor would be nice, so the chickens can get up off the wet ground when you have one of your torrential rainfalls.
If you hang mothballs around you tractors that will keep the raccoons from sniffing around, I put a handful in old pantie hose and hang on the corners and replace as needed..it really works😊
Thats a good farm girl! My dad gave me a pen knife when i was 7 to cut the binder twine off the hay bales. My pony, my responsibility. Did i get cut? Yep! Learned really fast to pay attention to details after that! Closing it was the stinker at first. Practice makes perfect 😁👍 God bless!
Kevin. Ad 2-14inch 30lb hydraulic lifts to the tractor. It holds the lid open with no problem. I cannot send you pics, but we built it exactly like yours but with built-in heater for the cold nights in the mountains of Utah.
Thanks for your videos on the chicken tractor. You have inspired us to start raising our own broilers for our freezer. We built our chicken tractor using your plans and it turned out great.
How about a built-in pool/board to hold the lid up when you need it? It could be put at one end or fastened to that metal crossbar so that when you lifted the lid you could pull up on it and prop the lid so it doesn’t fall on your head. A built-in is better than trying to remember every time you go out there to take a stick.
Great videos as usual. I must comment, based on painful experience, about not putting wire on the "bottom" of your cages. Coons may not be a problem, but if you have "skunks" in your area, it's only a matter of time until one figures it out and digs under to wreak mayhem on your birds. Look at the front paws of a skunk. They are built for deep digging, much like an armadillo. I have them in my area and they present a whole different predator problem than do the raccoons.
Loved it even the ridge was a great idea. The only thing I will change for me is the size. I am widowed and will be raising only about q2 to 16 birds for me and to give to hungry friends. Love your channel.
You guys have so much food and vegetables, and are still a healthy wait. Of course work to, but people! Pay attention! Stay active, eat healthy! Period!!!!!
Haven’t thought of a hot water heater pan under the water. Great idea! For saw dust, we have a sawmill near us that is inexpensive. $2.50 to fill a big garbage can. $25.00 to fill the bed of a full size pick-up! Thank you for all your information from Maine.
I am really surprised that you haven’t cleaned the waterers and feeders before the new chicks arrive. It just seems to me that disease is spread so easily amongst the young. Best of luck in 2020 with all of your endeavours. I love your videos and watch daily.
My chicken tractor is the same design but a bit larger. I started with a top like yours but quickly found out that my Cornish crosses do experience a burst of energy at feeding time and would often even surprise them selves by flying up and over. I had to cut down the top’s opening to 1/3 of its original size to minimize the pandemonium of 25 energized birds trying to make their great escape CHICKEN RUN style.
We have had chickens for over ten to fifteen years. The last ones had a huge raccoon set outside the door while two young ones slipped though a tiny opening in the door and went for the layers. Fortnightly only two died before they were caught. Be assured thing were definitely fixed and upgraded.
Great series! I just watched both videos again for probably the sixth time. This time I was ready with the pause button and I had my graph paper, pencil and ruler ready to draw plans for one of these tractors. I’ll start building it tomorrow.
I am so glad I found your videos! We have had a small flock of layers in thr past a d have some cornish cross birds coming. This tractor is exactly what I've been looking to build for the birds.
I personally have a regular light for my chicks that is on a day night cycle and then i have the colorless/black ceramic heaters that give off no visible light going on constantly. No need to switch things off just to check to make sure theyre running and the timer is functioning properly that way.
I have to make a confession. I am just south of yall in Northern Arkansas and yall are about a year or 2 ahead of me so I watch your channel with interest cause yall usually get a little bit worse weather than we do, so I figure it is will work for you, it will work for me so i watch what yall do and then do the same.
Excellent work Kevin you get a gold star for acknowledging Sarah and her contribution ( we Ladies like to hear it even though we usually know ). That being said great tractors for those dirty birds. They look like you will be using them for a while. Thanks for the walk through on how to build them. God bless
We put clean construction sand inside our coop ,we use to use shaving but sand dries out much quicker doesn’t hold moisture. The peeps love scratching in the sand and dusting !
Just a tip from an old carpenter you may know and may not but if you ever have a lot of tin to cut and get tired of snips there is something you can do. If you have an old skill saw blade that is just about worn out and seen better days you can put it on the saw backwards from what you are supposed to and it works very well. Just be sure and use your safety glasses and watch out around hay and straw. Enjoying your videos so thanks and best regards!
Great job on both of your parts on building the new chicken coops. I still say I love how you both work together to accomplish the task that is at hand. Can't wait to see them both filled with birds!!! Great video.
Kevin, this is exactly what I had in mind to build. 5' x 8' would be the perfect size. 5 x 8 = 40 square feet 40 divided by 2 (2 square feet per bird) = 20 birds max minus the feeder and waterer. = 18 birds max. One things I will do differently; I will use treated lumber for the framing, so it will last longer. Great video that helped me decide what to build. Yep, I'm raising 36 Cornish Cross next year using 2 chicken tractors. :) God Bless you guys :)
I see I'm not the only one to like the fact that Sarah whips out her pocket knife. Gotta love that. Question though, how do you move the tractors with the chicks in them with no floor?
When Sarah pulled out her pocket knife, it reminded me of a famous quote of General Mad Dog Mattis. Former US Secretary of Defense. "A man (In this case a woman) should always carry a knife in case there's cheese cake or you have to stab someone in the throat".
You gotta love that guy! No worries about saying man either. It also stands for man, woman and child, as in huMANkind. Thats why chairman, fireman etc... are also correct. Its just pc stuff that makes everyone self doubt. God bless!
All of you homesteaders seem so patient❣️ I’m 64 and I’m not set in my ways but I’ve seen some comments that were like they thought you didn’t know your butt from a hole in the ground! I love your gentle ways! I wouldn’t do very well lol all I do is cat videos lol 😂
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You both make such a good team...and other times you need to work alone. These new tractors should last for many years.
I proud to have gotten a lot of guidance from you. Thanks for your sagacity.
I ❤BACON TO. Hope the baby chicks arrive safe, sound and healthy.
EXCELLENT decision on using hardware cloth!!
thats a great tractor...you and your wife make a great team....keep up the good work kids.....
Oh I love those chicken tractors !!
Way To Go Guys, Reuse is always better than recycle! Cheers
You all are always so precise and knowledgeable about the things you do and raise. I would like to see if you ever make a boo-boo. Some may be humorous and some may not be, but it would be interesting to see how you handle your mistakes, if you make any.
Do you ever do a show on how to kill and clean a chicken. I really enjoy you and your husband you make everything interesting. Breaking things down and make it easier for us to try doing what you do thank you
Awesome builds of chicken tractors
You guys rock! Real women carry knives.
Kevin’s shirts always make my day lol
Very nice chicken tractors. Good job!💖🐔
We made smaller chicken runs for our little chicken houses based upon your rabbit tractor design, open at one end to allow access to the house. We wrap the mesh right around the whole thing (less the 'door' end and it adds strength to the whole thing and is speedy as no need to cut it just staple along as you unroll it! We currently have 60+ chicken eggs and 30+ quail eggs in the incubators ready to start this years run of poultry off.
Another awesome inspirational upload, thank you so much for all you do here on TH-cam from the Highlands of Scotland. 🏴 👍 🐥
Sarah is a great help! tractors look great! We used to buy 10 Cornish x, butcher and then get 10 more...this year..we will order 20 and build another chicken tractor for the other 10...20 birds in our freezer is plenty for us...we also have 5 rabbit kits that should be ready for butcher by end of March...we will re-breed and hope for better litters when the weather is warmer...Thanks again for great teaching and showing us how you are doing it!
500 thumbs up & NO thumbs down. It shows the quality of videos you guys put out.
Loved the chicken tractor. Nice and clean. Great job! I think I'll make one like it with 2 doors on top instead of 1. We have some chickens that are more prone to fly out. Thanks guys for everything you do from down in Texas.
If you have a plastic mineral tub that is cracked you can cut a section of it and screw to the front corners of the tractor, with the curve up. It really makes dragging the tractor around easier.
Thank you very much for sharing. I really like your thoughts. Follow the results.
Kevin , I watched the 2 videos . Very good project !! Excellent job. Thank you so much !
I think those chicken tractors are great! Thanks for good idea on how to make them.
Thank you for sharing and God bless.
Dear Sarah and Kevin,
I have been a silent subscriber for years. I live in Germany and funnily enough, I worked in HR and my husband in IT. I just quit the rat race a few weeks ago to dedicate my time to do our garden and animals. I wish me and my husband would once be such a successful homsteading team such as you guys. I am still working on convincing him. We're currently working on our first chicken house... thank you for sharing and being so inspiring.
That is great news! Once he sees all the delicious food coming out of that garden he may change his mind. God Bless you guys,
Awesome!!! I’m not so gutsy as you but I do see an early retirement coming! Best of luck in your new adventure!!!
@Michael and Rebecca thank you Rebecca! The right property will come! We're no too far away on the border between saxony and saxony-anhalt.... the Harz is wonderful and we visit often for weekends with the kids.
@@LivingTraditionsHomestead thank you, I do hope so. He is already pretty excited about his future eggs for breakfast!
@@MrRbrgrn you should be, it is an amazing feeling. I wish I had done it earlier
Good job kevin & sarah
Wonderful video Josh!! 👍🏻
I’d never seen an A frame version, but I’m really liking it!
Thanks SO MUCH for sharing your knowledge!!! 😊
Can’t wait to see the chicks !
They came out great. Good job.
I think your chicken trackers are awesome looking I think your chicken's well be very pleased I look forward to seeing them when they arrive
Good instructional video. I like it.
Great Video. My son lives in Idaho and told me that he needed to build a chicken tractor, and asked for advise. We both looked a lot on the internet and checked out the designs that were out there. You win! We both found your design independently and both tried to tell each other of the great design at Living Traditions Homestead. Easy to build, light weight, and can be handled by one person.
We rated your design on a scale of 1 to 10 as an 11. By son has a bad shoulder and will be adding wheels to one end to make it easier for the 9 year old to move it. Great Job!
You folks are a great team! I wish all marriages were as good example to the world as yours. Best wishes as you raise another group of baby chicks.
Chicken trackers looking good.
I absolutely love your channel!
great looking tractors !!!!!
The chicken tracker looks great
Nice chicken Tractor 🚜
Very nice! Consider a piece of 2x2 that pivots on a screw, inside, to prop up the lid while you're putting in water & food.
Great video. Thank you very much.
One tractor is great...two tractors are terrific!!! A couple of 'roost' poles is each tractor would be nice, so the chickens can get up off the wet ground when you have one of your torrential rainfalls.
Linda Cummings
Good idea. I was also wondering about the roosts.
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe just a long, low box along one end to get them out of the mud.
C-monsters literally don’t roost bc their breasts are too large. They are mutant 🐔😄🤷🏽♀️
Those tractors had no wheels.
If you hang mothballs around you tractors that will keep the raccoons from sniffing around, I put a handful in old pantie hose and hang on the corners and replace as needed..it really works😊
so cute to see Sarah pull out her pocket knife and cut the pine shavings open...my Mom is 87 and still carries a pocket knife in her purse!
Eva Mahan o
I was just going to say that. She just casually whips a knife out of her pocket. Lol.
Thats a good farm girl! My dad gave me a pen knife when i was 7 to cut the binder twine off the hay bales. My pony, my responsibility. Did i get cut? Yep! Learned really fast to pay attention to details after that! Closing it was the stinker at first. Practice makes perfect 😁👍 God bless!
Every farm girl has a good knife :)
Me, too!!
Nice work!!
I got a very nice pocket knife, from my son, this past Christmas. Every women should have one, sooooo useful, everyday.
Looks sturdy enough to keep the chicken safe yet light enough to move easily. A nice build .
That turned out nice .
Kevin. Ad 2-14inch 30lb hydraulic lifts to the tractor. It holds the lid open with no problem. I cannot send you pics, but we built it exactly like yours but with built-in heater for the cold nights in the mountains of Utah.
Thanks for your videos on the chicken tractor. You have inspired us to start raising our own broilers for our freezer. We built our chicken tractor using your plans and it turned out great.
Sharing! (had a hard time FINDING part 2)
awesome pens...i love them. Great job
I like this one
Wow that was quick! Good on ya!
Looks great 👍🏽
How about a built-in pool/board to hold the lid up when you need it? It could be put at one end or fastened to that metal crossbar so that when you lifted the lid you could pull up on it and prop the lid so it doesn’t fall on your head. A built-in is better than trying to remember every time you go out there to take a stick.
You two are handier than a pocket on a shirt! Thank you for sharing with us.
Great job!!! 👍
Great videos as usual. I must comment, based on painful experience, about not putting wire on the "bottom" of your cages. Coons may not be a problem, but if you have "skunks" in your area, it's only a matter of time until one figures it out and digs under to wreak mayhem on your birds. Look at the front paws of a skunk. They are built for deep digging, much like an armadillo. I have them in my area and they present a whole different predator problem than do the raccoons.
nice tractors!
Love this video. Helped me out a lot. Thank you!
Loved it even the ridge was a great idea. The only thing I will change for me is the size. I am widowed and will be raising only about q2 to 16 birds for me and to give to hungry friends. Love your channel.
You guys have so much food and vegetables, and are still a healthy wait. Of course work to, but people! Pay attention! Stay active, eat healthy! Period!!!!!
I wrote weight.
Weight people
Haven’t thought of a hot water heater pan under the water. Great idea! For saw dust, we have a sawmill near us that is inexpensive. $2.50 to fill a big garbage can. $25.00 to fill the bed of a full size pick-up! Thank you for all your information from Maine.
Looking good
I am really surprised that you haven’t cleaned the waterers and feeders before the new chicks arrive. It just seems to me that disease is spread so easily amongst the young. Best of luck in 2020 with all of your endeavours. I love your videos and watch daily.
My chicken tractor is the same design but a bit larger. I started with a top like yours but quickly found out that my Cornish crosses do experience a burst of energy at feeding time and would often even surprise them selves by flying up and over. I had to cut down the top’s opening to 1/3 of its original size to minimize the pandemonium of 25 energized birds trying to make their great escape CHICKEN RUN style.
We have had chickens for over ten to fifteen years. The last ones had a huge raccoon set outside the door while two young ones slipped though a tiny opening in the door and went for the layers. Fortnightly only two died before they were caught. Be assured thing were definitely fixed and upgraded.
Great series! I just watched both videos again for probably the sixth time. This time I was ready with the pause button and I had my graph paper, pencil and ruler ready to draw plans for one of these tractors. I’ll start building it tomorrow.
I am so glad I found your videos! We have had a small flock of layers in thr past a d have some cornish cross birds coming. This tractor is exactly what I've been looking to build for the birds.
Do you put your layers in these, I'm trying to have a lightweight mobile place for new hens (3-4)
Thanks
God bless!
I personally have a regular light for my chicks that is on a day night cycle and then i have the colorless/black ceramic heaters that give off no visible light going on constantly. No need to switch things off just to check to make sure theyre running and the timer is functioning properly that way.
That's so awesome to watch you both work as a team doing stuff on your homestead
Very motivating thanks for sharing Victoria Australia
✔✔👍👍😊💖💖Great job guys...
Sarah you are awesome, you held right in there helping your hubby
I have to make a confession. I am just south of yall in Northern Arkansas and yall are about a year or 2 ahead of me so I watch your channel with interest cause yall usually get a little bit worse weather than we do, so I figure it is will work for you, it will work for me so i watch what yall do and then do the same.
Blessings
Excellent work Kevin you get a gold star for acknowledging Sarah and her contribution ( we Ladies like to hear it even though we usually know ). That being said great tractors for those dirty birds. They look like you will be using them for a while. Thanks for the walk through on how to build them. God bless
Kevin, you're a lefty woohoo! We lefties rock! ✊
I never noticed that. Just another reason to like Him!! I'm a lefty too and our sense of humor is similar
We put clean construction sand inside our coop ,we use to use shaving but sand dries out much quicker doesn’t hold moisture.
The peeps love scratching in the sand and dusting !
The only thing that I have heard it called is rabbit wire. I like the way you think and get er done. Have a wonderful weekend.
Just a tip from an old carpenter you may know and may not but if you ever have a lot of tin to cut and get tired of snips there is something you can do. If you have an old skill saw blade that is just about worn out and seen better days you can put it on the saw backwards from what you are supposed to and it works very well. Just be sure and use your safety glasses and watch out around hay and straw. Enjoying your videos so thanks and best regards!
Nice 😍
Great job on both of your parts on building the new chicken coops. I still say I love how you both work together to accomplish the task that is at hand. Can't wait to see them both filled with birds!!! Great video.
Put a couple of 8 inch wheels on one end to make it easier to move.
What a team you guys are!
Kevin, this is exactly what I had in mind to build.
5' x 8' would be the perfect size.
5 x 8 = 40 square feet
40 divided by 2 (2 square feet per bird)
= 20 birds max
minus the feeder and waterer.
= 18 birds max.
One things I will do differently;
I will use treated lumber for the framing, so it will last longer.
Great video that helped me decide what to build.
Yep, I'm raising 36 Cornish Cross next year using 2 chicken tractors. :)
God Bless you guys :)
“I’m not a chicken scientist “...no, but you are a chicken mathematician!🤓
Both of you are AMAZING!♥️
I see I'm not the only one to like the fact that Sarah whips out her pocket knife. Gotta love that. Question though, how do you move the tractors with the chicks in them with no floor?
Love it! I would add wheels.
When Sarah pulled out her pocket knife, it reminded me of a famous quote of General Mad Dog Mattis. Former US Secretary of Defense. "A man (In this case a woman) should always carry a knife in case there's cheese cake or you have to stab someone in the throat".
You gotta love that guy! No worries about saying man either. It also stands for man, woman and child, as in huMANkind. Thats why chairman, fireman etc... are also correct. Its just pc stuff that makes everyone self doubt. God bless!
😂😂😂😂 cheese cake or a throat stabbing, too frickin funny 😂😂😂😂
Happy healthy day to you and the girls and animals. 🥰👍🏼🤩😎
Thank you for sharing your ways with us .
So much work but so worth it to know what you're eating 🙂!!!
I like your tractors. I may make one I'm going to split the top and give the metal a coat of paint.
All of you homesteaders seem so patient❣️ I’m 64 and I’m not set in my ways but I’ve seen some comments that were like they thought you didn’t know your butt from a hole in the ground! I love your gentle ways! I wouldn’t do very well lol all I do is cat videos lol 😂
CATS are wonderful! We have 9!
Perhaps you could add a post that would hinge up to hold the lid up... like some autos have. It might help when you have to water or feed the birds.
A woman with a knife. She's a keeper Kevin!!!! Lol great vid love y'all!
Good thinking on moving up the time. We are thinking of getting rabbits.
You guys are so creative. That is really nice withall of that rusty tin!
This is awesome! I actually based my first chicken tractor off of your rabbit tractor plans! 😁 I love mine!
Perfect idea, then theres a nest box area!
That brooder setup is awesome. Simplistic and effective. Leave it for a year, come on in, set it up and rock n roll.
I love that you both sound like the coolest news hosts. Like Farmstead Weekly News. So happy to have found you guys!