What is the best chicken tractor for 4-6 chickens

[JessesChickens101]

Just for curiosity -- what kind of lizard eats chickens? I might move to Australia someday so I really want to know.

Goannas, they mainly take eggs but once they had a taste for my baby chicks, now we despise them and i fill with anger whenever i see them

 

[JessesChickens101]

Sounds cool, I hope it goes well for you

Thankyou!

 

[feliciadawn]

Goannas, they mainly take eggs but once they had a taste for my baby chicks, now we despise them and i fill with anger whenever i see them

Wow you have some crazy animals in Australia. I would think you also need to watch for dogs (and dingos?)

 

[JessesChickens101]

Wow you have some crazy animals in Australia. I would think you also need to watch for dogs (and dingos?)

I had 3 chickens taken last year without a trace, Dog was barking aggressively for hours towards the thick bushy forest where the hens LOVED to scratch and explore, after we were finally able to access the area where she was barking, All we found was a few feathers, Crazy yeh.
We have ruled out that it was a fox because they hunt alone and there is no way a fox can take 3 chickens without a trace by itself so we think it was dingos sadly

 

[feliciadawn]

For dogs/ dingos you may want to consider a solar powered electric fence around your tractor. I have no idea what keeps out giant lizards.

 

[JessesChickens101]

For dogs/ dingos you may want to consider a solar powered electric fence around your tractor. I have no idea what keeps out giant lizards.

Yea i thought of that and was going to purchase some but damn it gets expensive (Im still in school by the way, thats why it seems more expensive)
Electric fencing apparently is the only thing that keeps those nasty lizard buggars out

 

[feliciadawn]

All you need to buy is the energizer, a solar panel and some poly wire. For all else you can improvise. For example I use plastic clothespins as insulators to hold the wire.

 

[JessesChickens101]

All you need to buy is the energizer, a solar panel and some poly wire. For all else you can improvise. For example I use plastic clothespins as insulators to hold the wire.

Ooh ok i will look into that, Thankyou

 

[JessesChickens101]

All you need to buy is the energizer, a solar panel and some poly wire. For all else you can improvise. For example I use plastic clothespins as insulators to hold the wire.

If it isn't too much to ask, could you possibly link the best materials/brands because there is a lot of them and i don't know what would work best!

 

[ozzie]

It can be foxes (a vixen and her cubs?). I live in the city (suburbs) and we have no dingos. But we have foxes living in suburbia. Mainly in bush land areas (parks). They dig under the perimeter fence. Same thing happened to us. Just feathers left. No carcass. We left our chickens to free range in the garden whilst were away. All 4 bantams were taken in the one day. Now we only free range them when we are home. Otherwise they are secured in a run with a hardwire skirt around it. Take a look at this site. He has a lot of good ideas. And I think he’s situated in the part of Australia that you are in so it would be helpful to take a look his his set up to get ideas.

https://selfsufficientme.com/poultr...d-chicken-pen-is-needed-to-keep-out-predators