I just got a community garden plot, about 1.5 miles away from my house. I would like to take my chicken tractor out there, and let the birds do some work on the plot for me.
I would bring the birds back to the barn/coop at night, and then out to the chicken tractor in the morning - to let them stay out there all day. I could check on them at lunch time, as I work from home. I'd transport them back and forth in a dog crate with hay in it.
Does anyone have any ideas about this arrangement? What will the chickens think of it? This would only be for about a month. They aren't laying yet -- they're forecast to lay about 3 weeks after they would stop commuting to their "work" in the chicken tractor.
Any thoughts?
I would bring the birds back to the barn/coop at night, and then out to the chicken tractor in the morning - to let them stay out there all day. I could check on them at lunch time, as I work from home. I'd transport them back and forth in a dog crate with hay in it.
Does anyone have any ideas about this arrangement? What will the chickens think of it? This would only be for about a month. They aren't laying yet -- they're forecast to lay about 3 weeks after they would stop commuting to their "work" in the chicken tractor.
Any thoughts?