tractor-coops

Chicken Tractor the Third: The Hyperion It feels like I've been working on the third chicken tractor for years. Even though, it's only been a month. I probably would have finished it sooner, except that I broke my wrist halfway through, and had to complete construction with just my left hand...

SO, WE FINALLY MADE THE LUNGE AND DECIDED TO JUMP INTO THE EVER GROWING WORLD OF BACKYARD CHICKENS. WE HAVE 3 DOGS AND KNEW WE WOULD NEED SOMETHING TO KEEP OUR NEW FEATHERY FRIENDS SAFE FROM THE PUPS. WE DECIDED TO BUILD A TRACTOR FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. FIRST ITS MOBILE SO WE CAN GIVE THEM NEW...

My Chicken Tractor After searching the BYC Coop pages and a bunch on line, I found the perfect tractor to copy from that looked super easy. So I went and bought everything I'd need! Here's the list of supplies and how much they cost! 3 - 1x6 8 ft long (treated) $4.97 each total $14.91 8 - 1/2...

I spent the fall 2008 and winter 2009 building the "Cluck Wagon" in my garage. I started off by buying a homemade trailer sized 4'x4', so I made the coop 4' wide and 66" long with the overhang over the tongue. I drew out the design, bought materials at Home Depot as I went along and decided to...

Well, here is my humble "urban" coop/run. I started out by building the run as my chickens needed someplace bigger to be, outside of their brooder. I was lucky enough to have a near endless supply of 2"x4"'s as we have torn down some walls at a pole barn recently. I also found some 1"x10"...

Hello and Welcome to TNDadx4's Lessons Learned Chicken Page! We are new to raising chickens as we were just given 6 Araucana (Easter Egg) chickens. It is a personal goal of mine to try to live as self-sufficient and as simply as possible. I hope by sharing some information that others will...

Tentatively Chez Ethel and Esther (maybe the names will not suit them...) Purchased Comfy Pet model CP 047 from Ebay. Covered area inside is ~12 1/2 sq ft. My chicken book recommends 4 sq ft per chicken if outside access provided so we are within that limit but boy does it look small!! Took a...

The Stuard Family Evansville, IN Wonderfully talented husband making my coop...gotta luv that guy! Home sweet home! Ruby, my favorite...caught in the act. Ready for the chickens!!! Babies - Round 2 Mail-order disaster... Spa Day at the Dust Bowl Salon! Woot, woot! First eggs... Madi...

The Little Urban Coop This is my adventure into urban chicken keeping. This process has been a long time coming, after searching to find local organic eggs and paying high prices I wanted to have some control over this aspect of our essential menu item. I know it's probably cheaper to just buy...

2 PIECE HOT N SPICY

Feedstorechick's Mini Coop Here is a simple coop with run design that can be used to house a pair of bantams or as a grow out pen for chicks Click on any of the thumbnail photos above for a larger view. Overall these "Mini Coops" are 4' x 8'. They are made in two parts. The house is...

The Chicken Tractor for the "Meaties" In the spring of 2010, I built a chicken tractor for the Cornish Rock Cross meat chickens I was going to raise. Like my coop, I used scrap lumber, except for the 6x6 post that I used for the "axle", and some of the "hardware". The "coop" part of it is...

Uzuri's Chicken Tractor-Trailer A work in progress. (Both the page, and the tractor!) While farming runs in the family, this is my first time with chickens (or really, any livestock) of my own. We won't count the ducks I had when I was two ;) This, in combination with the fact that I like to...

My A Frame Chicken Tractor/ Coop / Ark Last year I got 3 chicks. I built the small chicken tractor. Then I learned chicken math. LOL. So... I went in search of a larger coop. I searched here and other places. I combined the ideas from several Arks. Much thanks to The Southern Agrarian. I...

Chicken Barrel The Urban Coop This project is designed to help make raising chickens easy and accessible for people that live in an urban context. Below are instructions for building your own urban chicken coop.

"A tractor from scraps I had lying around" This was built to quarantine a grown pair of turkeys, but I expect to use it next year as a grow-out pen or maybe for some meat birds. It's not meant for northern winters, but would be ok year-round in a very mild climate. Dimensions are 8'x8'...

Take an old stock tank, 3 aluminum satellite dishes, a couple of iron wagon wheels, a rear wheel from a riding mower, 2 never flat bicycle wheels, a couple of cattle panels, 2 x 4's, welded wire, chicken wire, T-111 siding, styrofoam insulation, discarded commercial gym set (PVC with metal pipe...

The Fuzzbucket Express So I like many BYC'ers have gotten a taste of coop fever! So this time my idea was to build my first tractor, as my chickens will be free range during the day when I'm home and I want something I can move around and not have the chickens tear up a hunk of ground and have...

My Gambrel-roofed Chicken Tractor So, we needed a tractor for 5 hens (hopefully all 5 chicks make it to pullet-hood, and none decide to start 'cock-a-doodle-doo-ing!). While we won't be moving the coop a lot, I wanted the option of being able to move it around a bit during nice weather, and...