Pallet chicken tractor

For about a year Jason and I have been talking about getting chickens. With a house full of growing boys, we needed to find some easy ways ...

Today, I want to show you how to build a Joel Salatin style chicken tractor. Joel Salatin has almost perfected the art of pastured poultry so his model is a

Turn Old Pallets Into a Chicken Tractor!: Learn how to use old, discarded (free!) pallets to build a chicken tractor, reducing your carbon footprint and making your chickens happy!Here's the ~9-minute video version: What Is A Chicken Tractor?A chicken tractor is a movable chicken cage, al…

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…

This post is long and long overdue. I built a chicken tractor over the spring. What's a chicken tractor you ask? Well that depends on if you ask a green tractor chicken or a red tractor chicken... Most people look at me funny when I say I have a chicken tractor. I think they imagine a dozen chickens tethered to a plow or something. A select few probably imagine an actual chicken driving a tractor. If you fall into the latter camp, I would love to know what you think a cock fight is. Leave a…

Every morning I move the chicken tractor to new grass.

Turn Old Pallets Into a Chicken Tractor!: Learn how to use old, discarded (free!) pallets to build a chicken tractor, reducing your carbon footprint and making your chickens happy!Here's the ~9-minute video version: What Is A Chicken Tractor?A chicken tractor is a movable chicken cage, al…

I did it!!! It took me a couple of months. But I did it! 90 % of the work was done by myself (my DH helped some...gotta give credit where credit is due...

Step 1: Get a bunch of free wood from a Craig's List ad. 5 2x6s, 3 2x4s and some other scraps scavenged from the alley by your house. I also got a pallet from a guy whose cabinets were delivered on pallets. Step 2: Rip all the...