Chicken wagon

Come along with us on this journey of building a large mobile chicken coop to follow behind our herd of cows. We decided to do this project because the strug...

Our portable goose coop built on a wagon frame to make it easier to move on our uneven pastures. It has house gutters that collect rain and feed the rain to...

Chicken Wagon

Being a pastured-based, grass-fed operation has many advantages in terms of protection of the environment, healthiness of our meats, sustainability, and protection of heritage breeds. One of the major components of this operation is our pastured-poultry operation using our chicken 'tractors', mobile chicken coops on wheels. The beauty of these coops is that they allow us to move the birds around the pasture evenly distributing manure and helping to keep our pastures fertile and clean. Mesh…

We built this vardo on a 4' x 8' trailer. It is mostly made from materials we had around. We purchased new the ornamental scrolls, paint, and hinges for the windows and doors.

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…

My five chooks have a nice large coop and secure run, but we like to take them to our overgrown vegetable garden so they can play around and gorge themselves on veggies and bugs. However, it's about 200 feet, and the young rooster gets worried if...

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This coop was built with a whole lot of help! A little over a year ago I acquired an old corn / hay wagon and I wanted to build a coop that I could pull around the pasture. My Dad, some neighbors and myself started construction with a very...

The inspiration was from thepromiselandfarm.com. We changed some items around to make it more suited for holding up to 100 broilers. We needed additional water/feed storage, and didn’t need l…