chickens tractor pixs PLZ

[chickens3]

i have made something like that befor

 

[pringle]

thxfor all the feedback but I was wondering what sort of wire I should use?

 

[CMV]

Hardware cloth/welded wire is sturdy and light. Don't waste your money on chicken wire. Useless stuff. The only thing it's good for is keeping your birds in. It keeps nothing out.

 

[pringle]

ok thanks for all the replies im going to make a 8 by 6 foot and 3 feet tall chicken tractor its going to have some wheels and half of it there is going to be a strong tarp and also roosts I plan on moving it around every day so the whole lawn gets fertilized

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[RHewitt]

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I like the "dual wheel" design. How do you pivot the front end up to move it? I didn't see a front handle.

The front has a handle. I just lift and push or pull. Dual wheels work great. They came from and old push mower.

 

[RHewitt]

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Ours are very similar. I guess great chicken minds think alike LOL!

 

[Cindy in PA]

I have some hardware cloth that I bought for another project 4 years ago that I was going to use on my new banty tractor. I need additional fencing, so I was researching online to see what is available and saw that most hardware cloth is from 19 to 23 gauge and chicken wire is usaully 19-20 gauge. What makes hardware cloth stronger, the tight weave??? The two rolls that I have don't have the label on them anymore, so I don't know what gauge it is. I am going to use 14 gauge 1 by 1 inch cage wire for the bottom. I just had know idea hardware cloth was actually no heavier than chicken wire in gauge anyway.

 

[Oklahoma Lightning]

Cindy, I would use what you have but if I was buying it I use 1/2 or 1/4 inch just because something like a rate could get in or reach in.

 

[chickens3]

Well those are all good pics of chicken tractors.

 

[sben451]

Here is our recently completed chicken tractor ( this is only a daytime space for my 26 month old chicks that we hatched in our incubator--we have foxes, coyotes, etc., so at night we move them back to the coop). It was built with PVC pipe, chicken wire attached with zip ties. I can hang their feeders and waterers, and I have a tarp to cover the tractor on rainy days. I can keep the chicks in the yard near the house and move the tractor daily. Boy do they love the grass!