No pasture. UPDATE: never mind!

[anniekrs]

Hello. We live in the forest of northern Idaho. Just moved here last summer and are starting all over with homesteading.
We've raised a ton of meat birds before, but have always had pasture. Here, we don't yet have pasture. Just a lot of firs and some small cleared areas for our cabin-in-progress and a small garden.

Can we raise meat birds if we cant move them around in a chicken tractor? We'd like to do two batches of 25 each. Thoughts? Maybe I could move them around the garden. It's 30 x 35, but that seems horribly small to me.

 

[anniekrs]

I forgot to look up other posts and see that I'm not alone. I'm getting plenty of ideas. Sorry!!!

 

[FunClucks]

I've raised 20-21 to slaughter age out of a batch of 25 in a 150 sq foot stationary covered run with 6" deep wood chips (from a tree service) as bedding. I turned the wood chips daily to disperse the poo. Used a gutter feeder on one side of the coop and 5 gallon nipple waterers on the other so they had to walk. I wouldn't do it in any smaller of an enclosure.