chicken tractors

Hello, we have birds in Salatin-style tractors. We've been losing birds left & right (80 so far 😣). We thought it had to be a 4-legged predator and were setting traps accordingly, but finally figured out it was the ravens by witnessing their methods with our own eyes. They go out in the morning...

Hi! We're new to chickens (we have a dozen ten-day-old Rhode Island Reds in a kiddie pool brooder). The kids (10 & 13) and I are trying to plan for a chicken tractor or two and a coop. We'll probably start by building a chicken tractor this week, working our way up to the coop. I have good basic...

Every chicken tractor that my husband and I looked at on YouTube, various websites, and poultry supply operations were bulky, heavy, small and in my opinion, seemed kind of lacking in many ways. We have ten girls, have no landscaping at all right now and lots of Red-Tailed Hawks that loom above...

Just found this forum. Recently moved to the country and want to get chickens again. Looking for advice on a lightweight chicken tractor. I have 3.8 acres and want to be able to move them around. Older and have a bad back so needs to be light. I’m also new using a forum so need help with how to...

I’m going to give a detailed description of my mobile breeding pen/chicken tractor for my laying hens with plenty of pictures. This is my third build of this design, and I’ve been slowly improving it with each build. I live in southern BC Canada, so we have fairly mild weather year round, and...

Hello Everyone, This may not exactly fit here, but I thought this might be the place to get some advice. I recently bought a small mobile metal chicken-tractor ($300+ with shipping). I was planning to put some young pullets in it out in my now-bare garden. I won't give the pen's brand here...

Hello Keepers of Chicken Knowledge! I am a total newbie to all things clucking. I mean, I know how delicious they can be, but that’s it. We are a homeschooling military family who have stumbled into stealth chicken keeping. My sister bought our kids (my 2 and her 2) baby chicks. Somehow, I have...

I'm looking at building a tractor based on the kerr center tractor. It is a very heavy unit. Has anyone built it and have any suggestions?

We are getting more and more chickens (thanks chicken Math!) and we are looking into moving and expanding our chicken coop and pen to allow for more protected ranging for the birds. We are considering building 4 pens off the coop with separate access both inside the runs for the chickens and...