Pappy
04-22-2011, 11:08 PM
Ok, my youngest son reached a point where I couldnt put off his want to raise some animals. We are going Goat shopping tomorrow and he already has some chicks and ducklings started.
I bought all my fencing and posts and will be tackling that project and building a coop / lean-to but I also built (am building) a chicken tractor:bandit:
WTF is that LOL! Well, its a small enclosure that houses a few chickens and has an attached run that is mobile. My plan is to use it until I get the coop done then use it exclusively for meat chickens which are only around for 2 months before they are butchered. I will probably build 3 of them in total so I can have 3 batches of meat birds growing.
I am attaching a picture of a similiar "tractor'" but for the life of me am having a total brain freeze on what would be an easy way to use some atv tires for it since I have plenty:p
Open to your suggestions....even if atv tires arent used...im still looking for a cheap way to get the tires on this thing. I would like to have it sit flat on the ground until i lift it where-by the tires contact the ground and I can move it to a new area for the chickens to eat and scratch.
Here is a gallery of a crap load of them....
http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/tractors.html
I bought all my fencing and posts and will be tackling that project and building a coop / lean-to but I also built (am building) a chicken tractor:bandit:
WTF is that LOL! Well, its a small enclosure that houses a few chickens and has an attached run that is mobile. My plan is to use it until I get the coop done then use it exclusively for meat chickens which are only around for 2 months before they are butchered. I will probably build 3 of them in total so I can have 3 batches of meat birds growing.
I am attaching a picture of a similiar "tractor'" but for the life of me am having a total brain freeze on what would be an easy way to use some atv tires for it since I have plenty:p
Open to your suggestions....even if atv tires arent used...im still looking for a cheap way to get the tires on this thing. I would like to have it sit flat on the ground until i lift it where-by the tires contact the ground and I can move it to a new area for the chickens to eat and scratch.
Here is a gallery of a crap load of them....
http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/tractors.html