I built this chicken tractor way before the chickens came. It was meant for three, and I got 4.
(couldn't help myself!) Anyway, it's an A-frame as you can see. I have lots of things I would change, but it's ok because I'm going to build a larger coop with a nice size run and hopefully a garden they can munch on. I've been looking all over this site to get some great ideas, and I think I might combine some of the coops people have here. Since my tractor space is so small, my soon-to-be full-grown chickens have a temporary daytime pen that is pretty large. It works pretty well, but it isn't entirely predator proof, which worries me. I have been debating whether I should let them free-range or not, and I think I have decided not, one because I live in the suburbs and they could easily hop the fence, and two, there are lots of redtail hawks in the area, like the one that landed in our tree this morning. Anyway, enough of my babbling. Here's the tractor!
This is the view from inside the "coop" (just a protected place where the nestboxes are) looking at the roosts at the other end.
Small, but works for now. They're going to move into a palace! (hopefully soon!)
This is the view from inside the "coop" (just a protected place where the nestboxes are) looking at the roosts at the other end.
Small, but works for now. They're going to move into a palace! (hopefully soon!)
