Chicken Tractor

I’ve heard it said that the eggs that come from the chickens when using one of these chicken tractors are just a side benefit. Given how much our family, and many of our neighbors, have…

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Step-by-step instructions for building a DIY chicken tractor for meat birds! This design is 10'x5'x2' which works for up to 25 birds.

We built and tested Justin Rhodes' new DIY mobile chicken tractor design so you can judge before you build. We share the cost too!

Every morning I move the chicken tractor to new grass.

Carisa | Small Farming on 2 Acres on Instagram: "CHICKEN TRACTOR BUILD PLANS NOW AVAILABLE at the link in bio! ⚒️ This moveable chicken coop was deigned to keep costs low, be easily converted between use for meat birds or egg laying chickens, and also to be easy to clean (just move forward to fresh ground, and voila, a clean coop!) These plans were written by real homesteaders who actually built two of these coops for our own small homestead over 2 years ago! We still use them to this day…

Large and durable, our a-frame chicken tractor made raising chickens a snap. Learn how we built our mobile coop with these instructions.

Building a PVC chicken run for the wheelchair chicken tractor.

There are lots of ways to raise chickens in one's backyard: free ranging, rotational pasturing, tractoring, etc. Meat breeds tend to eat a lot of feed and gain weight quickly, and those traits have come at the expense of foraging behavior (cornish cross, we're looking at you). One way to get those meat birds out in the fresh air a bit while forcing the little butterballs to eat some greenery (and poop around the yard instead of two feet from the feeder) is to put them on a bit of a diet and…