Build a Chicken Tractor!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2023
- We are going to show you how to build a chicken tractor! Come along with us as we take this journey into saving money on chicken feed by pasturing your chickens in a chicken tractor.
Build List:
3 - 5/8x8' decking boards
10 - Treated 2x4x8
1 - 16' Trarp
2 - Cattle Panels
4 - Wheels
1 - Sheet OSB
1 - 4' wide poultry netting roll
Whole bunch of zip ties
Box of spax screws
Hinges for doors
Latches for doors
Handles
.....sounds about right
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8-10 layers is good to know. Can you do a video showing how you operate the chicken tractor? Thank you.
Ty! I’ve been looking for an affordable plan for breeding pens that I can walk into. These, I think, will be perfect. I’m going to add another stud frame in front of the nesting boxes so I can enclose the boxes and a roost.
Howdy
Are there any changes that you would make on a future build with what you have learned on this one?
Nope, still loving it !
Love this design!! Nice job!!
Thanks Denise!
Another idea for nesting boxes are Tractor Supply’s 5 gallon buckets, because they are so cheap @ ~$5. Just an idea for any of your future endeavors.😊
Love your chicken tractor. Time to do some improvements on ours.
We are loving it so far
Awesome
Nice video ❤️ 🙋♂️ 👍
Thanks James!
Hey hey!!
You can also grow some of your own feed and chickens eat a very wide variety of food. You do not have to buy all of their feed from a feed store.
Very true!
So how many chickens can comfortably stay in your tractor? Do you have to have a nesting box for each chicken?
I think we could fit 8 to 10 full grown birds in there as long as we move it every day or two. Multiple birds will use one Nesting box, so you only need a few per dozen birds
How you gonna pasture the chickens with a plywood floor, they can't eat grass and bugs
Good job on the build 👍 very encouraging and one I would like to build without the plywood floor.
I think you might be mistaking the concrete shop floor for wood. The bottom is open except for the low roosting bar.
Do you have a handle or a bar or how will you move it?
We just pushed it so far. I will probably add a handle when I figure out where we need it the most.
Nice job. Do you have a concern with a predator digging under? Will the food attract mice? I noticed a gap at the bottom that they could fit through.
It's only about an inch, I'm not overly concerned about that in my experience
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13-15 per 50 pounds??? 5 years ago maybe! Ha, try a minimum of 20 for the cheap junk and more for better ingredients. Cheap scratch is 15!! 😵