DIY Coop & Tractor for Six Chickens (V2.0)

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In this video I cover the features of my newest mobile chicken tractor. I built it to keep my egg laying hens safe from the bobcats, raccoons, foxes, coyotes, possums, and skunks that visit us every night. I also have designed a pvc chicken feed tower to keep them fat and happy. Free ranging chickens produces higher quality eggs, meat, and happier chickens.

00:00 Introduction of how to build a Chicken Tractor
00:30 Features of the above ground coop
01:08 The tractor connects to coop through a ramp
01:20 View of coop interior
01:59 Features of the tractor parking spot
02:45 Why you should use a chicken tractor
03:15 Benefits of a chicken tractor
03:51 Main reasons for a chicken tractor
04:42 Why to separate the coop from the tractor?
05:26 Why it has a roof (version 2.0)
06:50 The chicken feeder design
08:10 How the wheels are mounted
09:13 Don't use CHICKEN WIRE
09:54 The pull handle
10:15 Summary

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chicken tractors have been made popular by people like joel salatin and others. While you can buy a static chicken homes like a tractor supply chicken coop a mobile chicken coop is even better. chicken tractor design is important for Building The Ultimate Hen House For My Growing Family

pastured poultry is the way to go

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Love it! This design may help us figure out a rabbit tractor for this spring ❤

dawnburton

Great work and inspiring....

I like it.... 👍👍

PertanianTerpadu

Love this design. We’ve been losing chickens like crazy this year. Hawks, raccoons, foxes, coyotes. But looks like the plans are no longer at that link?

estebanescobar

Great idea!

Question: I have chickens that will lay in the afternoon. Do you ever have an issue with a hen not being able to lay when they need to when you tractor them away from their nesting boxes during the day?

Vietkour

Question, you didn’t mention so I’m assuming you don’t utilize farm dogs?! I live in sw KS, I don’t homestead although I’d love to one day but ppl around here rely heavily on Great Pyrenees, German Shepherd’s, I have a mini Aussie but she’d be more for herding than a line of defense and border collies again for herding. Here we on very rare occasions have a random mountain lion walk through, rattle snakes galore but predominantly we deal with coyotes. They are known for tricking farm dogs to chase them out into the prairie alone and it’s never good but properly trained dogs especially with a bud make such a difference in reducing the amount of predators that get too close. That might really reduce the amount of wildlife that approaches so confidently and so close to your chickens although you seem to enjoy the foxes and other animals out there which I get that. I was just curious, sheepdogs are great too but Great Pyrenees tend to be our go to because they’re big, strong, great family dogs and can live full time in about all weather. Just a thought or for anyone dealing with the loss of their livestock should give a thought to the right farm dogs that’ll defend your coops, bare minimum they’ll sound the alarms. I’ve also heard guard geese are phenomenal protectors and can live with chickens, turkey or ducks so long as they’re raised around them they tend to view them as family. Live/Hotwire is another tool and they make solar ones now so you can move them around as needed with the chickens. It’s the aerial predators that can be so pesky and hard to protect from. Anyways just an idea

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