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If you add guttering to the shelters you will be able to direct rain water to the tanks on the pens
Importance of a consistent water source is vital and rainwater is not always consistent, especially if you live in any area except Seattle. The Simplicity of of his design seems to be fluidic.
@@michaelerickson3558 the same tank can be refilled with more than one method. If one is passive, seems good to me.
Great design. We have tried something similar, initially damaging a few of the pens in high wind gusts, mostly in the spring/fall. We now use 2 metal stakes per coop that move daily which seem to work in all 'normal' wind conditions. Adds a bit of time to daily chores, but keeps them firmly grounded.
It would be good to see a video of moving the chickens and infrastructure - great stuff Richard !
String trimmer line keeps hawks from swooping down. String across aerially in a random pattern. They can't navigate the lines to fly in.
We have been experimenting with different structures on open pasture with electric netting for about a year now. We have broilers and egg layers on pasture. We have had a couple problems with wind picking up our structures and breaking them upon impact. We have now built a lower structure that is 2 ft high but open on the sides. So far so good. The lower structure also has had a better success rate against hawks. Thanks for your work.
You have so much content, so I'll have plenty to keep me busy while I hide from the midday sun.
Respect from Africa 🇿🇦
It will be interesting to see how you move them each day. Also curious how they stay in place during higher winds. My earlier suggestion to name them is "Chick Chalet", because from a distance they look like little chalets on the hillside. Very pastoral.
Well done Richard, I am interested in seeing how you move these in a future video...
RICHARD PERKINS... Please put all your stuff together in playlists.
I've just recently discovered the Ridgedale videos and wish to congratulate you for all the sharing...
I am in Brazil, planning a permaculture farm in Portugal, thanks to a model farm in Sweden. Some latitude span!
As for the new farm gadjet, i'd just call it 'TROILER'.
The birds will probably forage more but that breed will mainly just lay around 90 percent of the time. I really think you need to move to a freedom ranger or "in between" breed that when you butcher them you will actually see lots of grass and forage in the gizzard and make USE of this brilliant extra space to roam. I know why you raise Cornish Cross but they are not a very good pasture bird. It might be worth the extra two weeks it takes to finish out a different breed to make full use of this mobile system and improve the quality of your meat.
How about naming the pens 'Starship H'enterprise?'
H"enterprise.
Yep, this one.
Thanks Steven :-)
Great iteration Richard. We have very uneven ground and the standard Salatin model does not work for us. I have wondered about something on wheels for awhile and it seems you may have nailed it! Thanks for sharing your innovation.
Screws might be better 😉
Ridgedale Rolling Gazebos. Mobile Gazebos, mobile respite shelters, mobile relief structures (MRS). Keep up the great work!
Hi Richard, I know this video is from 5 years ago. Did you decide these were better than the Joel Salatin ones in the end? Thanks for all your videos, they’re so great.
As I suggested in the first video, I think "Roller Broiler's or RB's would be a good name for them since they roll on the ground and it's a short easy name to refer to them as. They look good. I hope they work out for you Richard. Always enjoy the video's. Thank you for taking the time to make them. I always learn something from them.
It looks great Richard! We are starting the same thing in south africa! Can you please share the size of your cages?
Nice, light system. Looks great, but I'd add some vertical supports along the center of the roof if you want it to withstand snow loads. Even a couple per "truss", either vertically or diagonally to the "bottom" center of the "truss" horizontal( to create a "yolk"...no pun intended) would go a long way to support a snow load. Keep up the great work. Very inspiring. Cheers!
PS: A good test would be: if a grown man can lay down, spread out on each side of the roof, without it collapsing, that would be similar to a snow load. If it won't support a person, it likely won't support a snow load, especially a wet snow.
I really like this design.
These look great, going to have a go at building one this weekend. Thanks!
Hi Richard, thank you for the videos that you are sharing, it’s thoughtful and nice to watch since you are a natural teacher. I have been following your videos since sometime now. Would you be kind to answer a question please. I will start broiler chickens, l have found a place where l can consume. But they are talking about first vaccines! If l understood right! You do not use any kind of antibiotics or vaccines whatsoever! What do you suggest? Should l tell them that l do not want any kind of vaccines or antibiotics, l would like them as they are! What do you suggest? Hope this reaches to you, have a good day and thank you in advance. 🙏🏻
I like what you have done here. On my tiny tiny scale of first time 6 birds i used the premium one poultry net and found it to be fantastic. Last year without the electric fence I lost all my birds to predators....
I love this! Great job!
I can see this being a great upgrade from the smaller tractor type pens. My goal is to get started next spring with 300+ broilers in NW Oklahoma, where predators and severe weather are the two major concerns. I think they may have to be built heavier for my area due to high winds.
Hi there Richard, My suggestion with these pens is that you can remove the chicken wire around the structure because your not using it you have the electric fence. thank you I've learned a lot from your videos.
"Ricksshaw" might be an appropriate name for the new buggies. Keep up the great work.
B Form - I'm more partial to chickshaw....lol
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Cheer leders highkicking
Hi Richard! Love following your work! I am a bit worried about that the elevated roof and light weight of the "rollerpens" will make the structure at risk for toppling or lifting in wind. Perhaps putting bags in the corners, and fill with water for extra weight for those days when the forecast looks really windy?
This is good and the same method we’re doing back home , Philippines
Hi Richard, just come across your channel and your work. Love it ! Bought your book and the Gracie's Backyard film - looking forward to learning more from you. Fascinated by this new design of chicken tractor - I know you touched on the subject of predators and I was wondering how you finished the season - any fatalities from predators ? This seems like an exposed way of raising the broilers but I really like the idea. Thanks for sharing your work.
I'm collecting old push bikes now! 👍👍
I've been doing this for a few years, and it worked great. Until this year. An owl was grabbing a half dozen or more a night, so back into the tractors they went!
I call it drag netting
Thankyou bro for this expecive information
The Broiler Train
I'm liking this design. I think I might try to replicate it.
Grazing wheels on pasture.
I have a couple of ideas about aerial protection use some tall fence posts or wooden stakes in the 2 to 3 meter height above ground with eye bolts at top around the open area run rope between the and in a X pattern have guy ropes on each stake with a tent peg
How it would work is move the netting to new location set up tall pound tall posts into ground out side run rope through eye bolts on top loosely pound in tent pegs loop guy ropes over them useing sliding toogle blocks to add tension to to guy lines and tighten the ropes running over head
Why not hook your feeders onto the side rails then they will be under the roof (out of rain) & move automatically with the shelters (less manual labor).
Amy Kinnell he had mentioned that the out side rail might be more of a roosting bar height
I wonder if little pieces of bright ribbon tied on the top of the fence at intervals, flapping in wind, would enhance the airborne predator deterrent, without disturbing the chickens.
I know this is a dated video, but I'd still like to suggest " BROLLER PENS" - contraction of Broiler Roller ?
Also, one could bring two units to each end of the penned area with a net across the top of the gap between, perhaps, thus giving the birds a safer open space. Not much extra work to clip a net into hooks on the brollers? Regards.
Cluck Trucks : Hentels : Chickshaws : Peck Pens : mmmmm
There's a farm in the states that doesn't even fence their broilers in they just put them in an open field with a guardian dog and a food and water cart with drippers that they move every day
Hi. Insipiring work. Thankyou.
I like the lighter weight to these new hen houses. I would not like any heavy weight from trucks and tractors pulling my hen houses. We are growing soil and overcoming soil compaction. No need to further compact soil. Dr Elaine Ingham said we get almost 500% more protein in pasture grasses from soil that has built up its Organic Matter and has undone soil compaction while increasing the vibrancy of the Soil Biology.
I would call it a henitentiary
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So Justin Rhodes uses a mobile chicken coop with an electrical fence here in the USA. He also puts a goose with the hens so as to keep the predator away. Maybe that will be a good solution to keeping the hens somewhat safe.
Cluckin' truckin' ......just my two cents Dicky boy. Mean no offense by that, just watched so many of your videos, feel like a brother to me. keep'er lit as we say here in Ireland.
Someone said one close to this, but I was thinking "Perk's Pens".
-Jeff
I know they're called broilers but how about "The Roaster Coaster"?
Oh wow I love the design! I would love to know how you constructed these!
looks fairly obvious, surely?
How have these handled high winds?
Have you had foxes jump over?
You mentioned nearly a 50% profit margin on the broilers. What would the numbers look like if you did not process in house? Thanks for the videos.
I think his profits are so high because he is getting Swedish prices and not American prices for his products.
how do the wheels work? i couldnt figure out how they were attached in the video thank you Terri J NC USA
The Broiler Barn
Richards Broiler Barn?
Thanks for the video, but i have a question.. don't you have a problem with parasites (both internal and external)? because your chickens are on pasture and i heard you on other videos saying that it is hot there!
We live in a windy area, have you had any difficulties with the wind flipping your wheel tunnels?
1 stray dog , 2 hours, 76 dead birds .. similar setup with broilers killed 50 and 26 turkeys in my electric net. wild animals would have done much less so beware of domestic dangers.
Hi Richard, have you considered a mature rooster as a pasture buddy for the broilers? Nothing quite like one for aerial predators?
The Chick Wagon stories - could you hitch them up to each other and move them all at once pulling the front wagon?
"Mightier-than-the-sword"
Need to find a bulk feed in my area. Any resources you would recommend ?
"Cluck wagon"
I don't understand how this saves you time. It takes me and the hubby an hour to completely remove and replace a 100 ft fence (this includes getting the sides as straight as possible, pegs on the bottom for snake protection and removal and replacement of ground rods, eventually we will be able to be a little faster but not much), and with that many birds in that area you are gonna need to move that every couple days, isn't it faster to just move the broiler pens everyday which shouldn't take as much time as moving that fence does.
Also I don't understand what those pens are doing for the birds now. With no sides down to the ground they aren't stopping wind, I wouldn't think you would need sun protection for them in Sweden, I guess they are keeping the rain off them if they choose to stay under there when it rains, what other use am I missing?
Are the birds offered grit? I understand that feed conversion is much higher for chickens with grit.
This reminds me of the movie Stalag 17
How do you move them? At the end of week 9 I had 3 die of heat attacks just during the daily move.
Cant you put them side by side. That way they can share the fence that separates them and you can use that extra fence to enlarge the over all size of the birds living area.
pastured broiler wagons/Ridgedale pastured broiler wagons-PBWs
Well done!!!! How about "Touring Tractor"
Broiler Buggies!
Got any perma-culture feed plans? (acorn, pine nut, hazelnut, butternut, honey locust, pea shrub, ginkgo)
You can call the pins prairie schooners
I wonder if some roosts in the underside of the chicken trailer would let them tuck up under in case of bad weather.
Mate2Frio broilers are too heavy and clumsy to roost.
Thank you Richard. I’m really interested in seeing how this experiment goes. The Salatin pens are great. They have proved them to be very low cost but at the same time efficient and productive. Your new design looks great and my opinion is that it's a step forward. Actually this is the first low cost broiler pen I have seen that could be better than the Salatin one. The only concern is the weather or more precisely the wind. How much wind can it withstand and how they can be secured if a heavy wind coming in. Other than that this is definitely the design I will use.
how do you protect them from heavy rain? We have big monsoons here in South Asia and was trying to figure a way to protect them from water and also to keep them warm during winters
Most of the time rain in smaller amount during the summer time in Sweden. And with well graised pasture the water quickly sucked up in the soil. Sometimes it can snow or we ger hagel storms.
Birds can handle the cold as long as they are dry and have a wind protection
A couple of suggestions: "Penhouse", "Chick-Chuck", "Helter-Shelter", "Pull-Pullum", "ByChickle"
Thinking about the shape and mobility: hen-some cabbin'?
Could be a lot more fun catching them on their last good day. Betting on quite a bit more time and motion in that process.
The Freedom Ranger
Do you take the wheels off at night?
One thing you need to learn if nothing else efficiency is key
The Broilermaker
A good goose raised with the chickens will keep the predator birds away. I think Joel salatin talks about that in a video.
Mason Lantz cool do you have a link buy any chance
I also believe that some kind of livestock guardian animal might be a great addition to the system and could potentially eliminate the need for a fence. Richard, did you ever consider to raise your chickens with a livestock guardian dog, donkey or goose? Please give some feedback on that in one of your upcoming videos.
Justin Rhodes just recently went to a ladies farm where she runs meet chickens with no fence and just a old hay trailer as a shelter with the help of a dog.
Takes double as long from what I saw, not good enough with out predator pressure and very short production season...
Richard Perkins
Portable ( Peg ) Pins ? , Mate .
Wanderful
👍 but how you protect them from aerial predators?
Pasture Racer!
it is what it is "Rolling pens"
I like this
How many times do you feed your chicken in one day?
how about having a double the outer fence with the electric wire the second with an insulating material
In Southern Tasmania I'd call them 'The Mary Poppins" or 'The Flying Nun", they look too light to withstand our strong winds. Don't get me wrong, I like the animal welfare aspect of the system, I much prefer it to the other style broiler pens. I'd have to tweak the design to make it work here. Nice work, always pushing the envelope.
I really start wondering how they raise bresse chickens (50 ares/flock, max flock < 400 birds, pasture lays folllow between flocks)
You could call it a Wattle Wagon. Or the Chicken Shanty.
Call them Gazebo Tractors
Is there yet a newer video on this pen / coup design ?
Did you need 4 wheels on each? Could you not have used 2 at the back and at the front have legs and some handles to pick up and pull.
nice design. broilers on pasture seem so lazy, not out hunting, only sitting?
Justin Rhodes has a similar house he calls a "chick-shaw" after the chinese Rickshaw. I would call the actual pens a poultry patch, chicken churchyard or poultry playground, poultry paddock. Those are my thoughts!
Broiler Barn :)
PVC trough feeders hanging lengthwise by chains.
Broiler Boxcars
Where are you located Are the winter harsh in your area???
Sweden
Yes sometimes it can Snow in the summer time
The Rolls Roost...