chicken tractor

A chicken tractor also gives some shelter from predators and weather.

Chicken tractors may also house other kinds of poultry.

The first thing I built when we got chickens was a chicken tractor - a small cage designed to be moved daily to fresh grass.

I'd been waking up in the middle of the night, wondering just how to refashion that chicken tractor.

Most chicken tractors are a lightly built A-frame which one person can drag about the yard.

Unlike fixed coops, chicken tractors do not have floors so there is no need to clean them out.

Chicken tractors are floorless coops which can be dragged about a yard.

A chicken tractor (sometimes called an ark) is a movable chicken coop lacking a floor.

If this kind of "yarding" is both floorless and reasonably mobile it is called a chicken tractor.

How far down this road I've gone became plain when I realized, with satisfaction, that I'd built the new chicken tractor entirely out of scrap.

With chicken tractors flock owners can raise poultry in an extensive environment wherein the birds have access to fresh air, sunlight, forage and exercise, which caged birds in commercial coops do not have.

Yarding, as well as floorless portable chicken pens ("chicken tractors") may have some of the benefits of free-range livestock but, in reality, the methods have little in common with the free-range method.

Chicken tractors allow free ranging along with shelter, allowing chickens fresh forage such as grass, weeds and bugs (although these will quickly be stripped away if the tractor stays put for too long), which widens their diet and lowers their feed needs.

The term chicken tractor comes from the chickens performing many functions normally performed using a modern farm tractor: functions like digging and weeding the soil in preparation for planting trees or crops or fertilizing and weeding to enhance the growth of crops and trees already planted.