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dulahdaglace

dulahdaglace

Songster
8 Years
Feb 23, 2016
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I'm a mommy of 5 boys, and a full-time engineer. I recently started becoming more interested in gardening/health and what goes better with a garden than chickens? I view my future flock as my compost manufacturing plant with an added benefit of eggs. As an engineer, I tend to over-analyze things... and overestimate my abilities :) I haven't started yet, but my plan is to build a chicken tractor with a tiny flock and start manufacturing :)
 
Might I suggest doing as this engineer did and build one small tractor knowing you will build a second, no matter how many you build you will always want to make adjustments, but by making one small tractor to later use as a intermediate step between brooder and flock integration or as segregation coop you can also gain experience and make a lot of adjustments to the second. Still wont ever be perfect but will be a lot closer than the first and like I said this gives you a small intermediate one for grow out and segregation when needed or just a backup incase of damage to the primary.
 
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If you haven't already done so, check out the coop forum (it includes tractors):
https://www.backyardchickens.com/atype/2/Coops

Good luck with your plans. If you have any questions, always feel free to ask!
 
Hi and welcome to BYC. Birds4kids has made some good suggestions. Don't worry about overestimating your abilities as most of the time your chickens will be forgiving of your mistakes (and they can't tell anyone else
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). You may wish to check out your state thread and meet other BYC members local to you.

All the best with the coop build and i hope you share some pics!

CT
 

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