After baking and eating my way through the snowy weekend, I decided to be more productive yesterday.
I took stock of my lumber stash ( stash not stack, addicts have stashes) and decided to build a small tractor for separating hens with chicks from the main flock. The tractor will be used in the chicken yard which has 4ft 2x4 welded wire and 3 strands of electric wire around it so the construction focused more on keeping chickens in than predators out.
I ended up with a triangular tractor that is 6 ft long (7ft along the ridge), 2 ft wide and roughly 2 ft tall. The interior space is roughly 2 ft square, leaving a 2ft by 4ft run area. There is door at the back of the inside space and a door midway along the side of the run. The run area is covered with 1/2 hardwire cloth. The sharp edges of the hardwire cloth was covered with leftover slats from some shortened window blinds. The base and all exterior wood is pressure treated lumber covered with two coats of exterior paint.
I took stock of my lumber stash ( stash not stack, addicts have stashes) and decided to build a small tractor for separating hens with chicks from the main flock. The tractor will be used in the chicken yard which has 4ft 2x4 welded wire and 3 strands of electric wire around it so the construction focused more on keeping chickens in than predators out.
I ended up with a triangular tractor that is 6 ft long (7ft along the ridge), 2 ft wide and roughly 2 ft tall. The interior space is roughly 2 ft square, leaving a 2ft by 4ft run area. There is door at the back of the inside space and a door midway along the side of the run. The run area is covered with 1/2 hardwire cloth. The sharp edges of the hardwire cloth was covered with leftover slats from some shortened window blinds. The base and all exterior wood is pressure treated lumber covered with two coats of exterior paint.
