Chicken Tractors

[falcon6484]

I added rotating trailer wheel jacks to make it easier to move.

 

[Coffeemama7]

We will use tractor pens during the late spring till heavy frost. We have a horse barn to winter them in a stall.
Tractors get moved everyday, we just pull, but I love the wheels idea!
10x12' for the meaties, 3/4 covered with rippled panels, 1/4 double chicken wire. We have 50 chicks in this one.
8x8' for our layers, 1/2 paneled, 1/2 wired. We have 24 ladies + 1 Roo per pen, 5 nest boxes. They should start laying in a couple months.

Both have hinged tops for easy access.

Good Luck!

 

[whitehousechix]

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THATS PRETTY CUTE, DOES SHE HIRE OUT

 

[Opa]

I built a modified A-frame tractor since it will provide additional headroom in the coop area While mine was based on a 5'x5' foot print you should be able to make it any size just refer to the following pictures for guide lines.

Basic frame showing halflap mortise

Installed floor stringer/handle w/halflap mortise

finished frame

Door and Wire installed Note center cross brace. A ramp runs from opening in floor to this brace

Coop sided

Wheels in travel position, flipping handle over lowers coop

End showing feeder.

Access to lower section w/Curb to keep wood shavings inside coop

View of removeable roost and entrance to nestbox

Nest box access door

Interior view of nestbox

 

[LR Gamefarm]

i use a tractor for chicks and poults sometimes ducklings but havent ever kept chickens in them other than bantams but i think thier pretty good you just pull them around