If you were closer I might have taken them.
I still might be interested in some babies at some point. Maybe once we get our coop in the fenced yard and the door fixed.
In summer, we just don't worry about it. Without water, not much is going to come back up anyway. Now in spring - you can tell exactly where the tractors have been because the grass in those spots is incredibly lush and much taller than the rest of the grass. If the grass is green, we move all the tractors 3-4 times a week. That is usually often enough to keep the chickens from completely destroying the grass in that spot. Once summer hits and nothing much is growing, sometimes we wait a week between moving them since they get their little hollows made in the dirt and enjoy it when I turn the hollows into mud for them. Our tractors have pretty big footprints - the smallest footprint is 4ft x 8ft and the largest footprint is 8ft x 10ft. We just have pasture grass weeds right now. Looking at getting forage seed from TSC and throwing it in the pasture to see if it will do anything, but doubt that it will do much in summer without much rain.
Only that type of cover with enough water will reclaim. But really, you need to move the tractor often enough that it doesn't just get killed off. Even every day if you must. I used chicken tractors before and they are not for me. I want mine to have more room than that to use.
Do what I did and get a little .22 revolver that can take .22 SS loads. I emptied it into a possum I caught in the coop and no one even heard it. Or if they did, they didn't think it was gunshot.
