This is the a-frame chicken tractor my husband and father in law built. this is the link to the plans:
https://www.ana-white.com/woodworking-projects/frame-chicken-coop-tractor
We still have to add the wheels this weekend but its light enough i can move it every other day. We added a...
This was my flock before yesterday.
Now I've got three dead chickens and two injured. If it had been predators, I could understand. If it had been my own mistake, I'd be upset but it would make sense.
No, my chickens were killed by something simple and that we never saw coming. My...
Instructions and photographs showing how to build a solar powered, timber mobile chicken tractor was today announced as second prize winner in the latest competition on the worlds largest maker community,
Instructables.
Regards Wayne
Link to the Eggstream Trailer on Instructables...
Nellie was seriously broody. It took 4 days to break her by placing her in a bare ground tractor all day, every day. At the end of each day, I'd let her out of the tractor to rejoin the rest of the flock, and block off the nest boxes. She had no choice but to sleep on the roosts. I was...
Aart's Hoop Coop / Chicken Tractor
I've always been intrigued by the livestock panels as a structural material for a coop, and love the curved Quonset hut type imagery. Also like the idea of a chicken tractor to spread their industry and fertilizer in a less (human) labor intensive way...and...
Here it is! The fabulous “Chicken Coop From a Twin Bed!” created from found materials, two drills, a bucket of screws, a hand-held circular saw—and a tape measure (used periodically). I have no experience building anything, but I read a lot of DIY—I needed space upstairs in a bedroom, so I chose...
My first chicken tractor was made from pine and treated lumber (for the roof). I purchased Catawba plans and modified it into a 4' version. I came very close to keeping this one for our three chicks but decided to sell it and use the proceeds to make another one in order to break even...