My low clean, low cost DYI tractor

Cromulius

Hatching
Feb 18, 2019
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Central texas
I wanted to share my chicken tractor design. I built it from left over building materials and some store bought hardware cloth and welded wire. I have not cleaned the main are in the three years I have had it. I have cleaned the egg box maybe six times. One wall is slightly taller than the other for roof slope. I only use the auto feeder when I go out of town. I only feed them 2 cups of organic pellets per day along with table scraps. They consume all the vegetation under the tractor in three days so then I move it. This design is predator proof. I hope this helps someone with their bird housing.
 

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No because they can’t harm the hens. There was actually 2 snakes in there. I hated to dispatch helpful rat snakes but I can’t share the eggs.
 
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