You don't need to clean it out. You just move it from one piece of ground to the next.
Here's some photos of the doorway. I'm going to make another door on the other end when I have the time.
The pieces that look like roosts are cross supports. They are not as tall as the sides of the frame. They give support to a removable wire floor. You slide this floor in and out from the side with the door. I haven't yet made this floor, but my thinking was to slide the floor in to give more predator protection at night. Also to slide this floor in during the 24 hour fasting right before processing so they don't/cant eat any grass. Again, the floor is another simple project that I just don't have the time for right now but will soon. They do use them for roosts sometimes. Mainly they are fun hurdles they have to cross when running for the food! I just have be careful that I don't catch any chicken legs under them. I've started moving my tractor laterally to lessen the chances of that. I'm going to remount my wheel so that they roll as the tractor moves "width-wise" rather than "length-wise." That'll be a shorter distance to move the tractor and still have all fresh ground and less chance of catching chickens under those supports. You don't need those supports though. I just wanted to try out something new. If you don't use them, I'd put metal corner brackets in the frame bottom though because those corners get lots of stress during movement.
Dan
Dan
Here's some photos of the doorway. I'm going to make another door on the other end when I have the time.
The pieces that look like roosts are cross supports. They are not as tall as the sides of the frame. They give support to a removable wire floor. You slide this floor in and out from the side with the door. I haven't yet made this floor, but my thinking was to slide the floor in to give more predator protection at night. Also to slide this floor in during the 24 hour fasting right before processing so they don't/cant eat any grass. Again, the floor is another simple project that I just don't have the time for right now but will soon. They do use them for roosts sometimes. Mainly they are fun hurdles they have to cross when running for the food! I just have be careful that I don't catch any chicken legs under them. I've started moving my tractor laterally to lessen the chances of that. I'm going to remount my wheel so that they roll as the tractor moves "width-wise" rather than "length-wise." That'll be a shorter distance to move the tractor and still have all fresh ground and less chance of catching chickens under those supports. You don't need those supports though. I just wanted to try out something new. If you don't use them, I'd put metal corner brackets in the frame bottom though because those corners get lots of stress during movement.
Dan
Dan
