After stalking chicken tractor designs, running numbers, measuring, running more numbers, a couple trips to different farm and garden centers, and a whole 'lotta man hours....my handy husband freed the chickens. Well, freed them from the coop to their new, spacious, almost-like-being-complete-free-rangers-but-not-quite chicken tractor. It weighs a ton. It has wheels on the back but it is impossible for one person to move it on their own to a new location. We have to either use the Kawasaki mule or the tractor to reposition it. But it's done. And it allows the birds to have access to new spaces while keeping them safe from predators and keeping our neighbor's yard safe from them! ;) And we can position them over the garden or any areas that need *ahem* fertilizer.
So from start to finish, here is their new cage.
Nesting box built in 30 minutes. They've already taken to it.
I had originally thought we could just let them lay their eggs in that plastic crate, and Roxy did, but she seemed really stressed out that it wasn't very private. LOL!
1 comment:
That looks fantastic!!! Love the nesting box!!
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