calling any one from missouri

[EdenCamp]

I agree, its just too bad I didn't have the whole weekend to add to the run. We figured it out and the runs going to be huge when I am finally satisfied with it. Each new section will add 7x7x7. So far only two sections but next one to be erected this weekend and so on till its done. All in all there willbe 14 of them.

How I spent my summer vacation.......LOL!

Pictures! Or it didn't happen!

Seriously, taking shots along the way and sharing how-to's (& how not's) helps others and is appreciated.

Pen creep always seems to lag behind chicken math.....

 

[ocap]

How I spent my summer vacation.......LOL!

Pictures! Or it didn't happen!

Seriously, taking shots along the way and sharing how-to's (& how not's) helps others and is appreciated.

Pen creep always seems to lag behind chicken math.....

My first attempt at a chicken tractor is half finished and it's size even creeped, it grew in size as I found that I did not want to cut the boards, I found 12 and five footers so my tractor plans changed from 8x3 to 11x5 and I can hardly pick up one corner, how do I install a hydraulic jack on each corner?

 

[EdenCamp]

Wheels.... seriously. If you look at some of the tractor designs they build them in.
Would think with that many could rig a way to slip axle through and refix wheels so you'd only need 1 set. Or maybe front and back . Think wheel barrow. On our rough terrain maybe like kids wagon wheels?

Ride a wheel - save a hernia!

 

[jnjmanning]

Okay promise you wont laugh........................................what in the world is a chicken tractor? See I have this crazy imagination, and I keep picturing my favorite BO with her little wings wrapped around the steering wheel of our tractor, bouncing across the field! Lord will more coffee help?

 

[Herman63]

Okay promise you wont laugh........................................what in the world is a chicken tractor? See I have this crazy imagination, and I keep picturing my favorite BO with her little wings wrapped around the steering wheel of our tractor, bouncing across the field! Lord will more coffee help?

Its a portable small chicken coop that you can move through out the yard. So you can give the chicken greener pastures....

 

[jnjmanning]

Its a portable small chicken coop that you can move through out the yard. So you can give the chicken greener pastures....

Well mine free range so........... I guess I dont need one.....lol

 

[EdenCamp]

There's a whole section on coops and tractors - people add neat ideas all the time.

The beauty of using tractors is the chickens are still "free ranging" - but, they are protected and contained. Means the hawks can't get to them. Means your gardens dosen't get decimated. Means you can still protect the integrity of your breeding groups. Means your grow outs can get all the bennies without getting beat up or killed while assimulating to the flock.

Also, since you can move them around they aren't stuck in those scratched and stripped bare muddy, mucky runs attached to coops.

There's a couple really neat ones I'm itching to give a go this year - both framed with pvc/conduit. One has a coop built in and the other is just a big 8' or 10' square 24-30" high. Both light and portable enough a kid could move them.

But yeah, first time I heard the term I'm thinking of Clucky sitting in the seat with wing tips holding the steering wheel too! LOL!

 

[jnjmanning]

There's a whole section on coops and tractors - people add neat ideas all the time.

The beauty of using tractors is the chickens are still "free ranging" - but, they are protected and contained. Means the hawks can't get to them. Means your gardens dosen't get decimated. Means you can still protect the integrity of your breeding groups. Means your grow outs can get all the bennies without getting beat up or killed while assimulating to the flock.

Also, since you can move them around they aren't stuck in those scratched and stripped bare muddy, mucky runs attached to coops.

There's a couple really neat ones I'm itching to give a go this year - both framed with pvc/conduit. One has a coop built in and the other is just a big 8' or 10' square 24-30" high. Both light and portable enough a kid could move them.

But yeah, first time I heard the term I'm thinking of Clucky sitting in the seat with wing tips holding the steering wheel too! LOL!

It would be so hard to do here. We live in the middle of the woods, very rocky, VERY uneven. There is not a flat spot in my yard. I lost a couple hens to owls/hawks, until I got my beagle. She loves chickens and she hates hawks and owls!

 

[ocap]

I have finished one of the wheel assemblies

http://avianaquamiser.com/posts/Revised_chicken_tractor_wheel_lift/

 

[EdenCamp]

It would be so hard to do here. We live in the middle of the woods, very rocky, VERY uneven. There is not a flat spot in my yard. I lost a couple hens to owls/hawks, until I got my beagle. She loves chickens and she hates hawks and owls!

The square one was put together by an Ozarks guy specificly flexible to deal with our funky terrain.

That wheel assembly is cool beans!