Chicken Tractor

Ok no laughing!

This is our new chicken tractor. Ladies you know your husband loves you when he builds you a chicken tractor or a mobile chicken coop. We can have up to three chickens in the city. No roosters because they have a tendency to crow at the street lights all night.  In the top photo you can see the adjustable tires. Just set them in place and lift the other end and move to a new location. The tires can be up for moving and stay in position with a long bolt through a hole or down so the pen sets flat on the ground. There are two small round wire covered vent holes. One is on either side. Plus there is the sliding open/shut wire covered vent/window. The ladder hoists up at night if you want by using the rope you see hanging down the side and the rope wraps around the small post sticking up. The end has a door for food and water placement. We added a clear plastic plant tray (99cents) over the feed jar to keep the rain out and it works really well. The bar across the top has hooks under it where the feed container is attached so when you lift the tractor to move to a new location it lifts the container too. I'm still working on something to lift the water. You can't poke a hole in the top to add a hook because it lets out the suction that keeps the water in the jug. I'm thinking maybe a macrame plant hanger. The girls deserve the best. An access door in the back opens to the nesting boxes, the roost bar and oops, the poop tray which is a screen covered box so the chickens don't walk in the mess and it can be easily removed for cleaning. As you can see we have two very nice Rhode Island  Red poults. We named them Laverne and Shirley after the comedy show. Hopefully they are going to help us with our wormy apples and pears by eating all those nasty critters. The coop is sitting in the lawn area for today because we haven't quite finished pruning. After they finish off all those bugs etc. then they get to work on scratching up the mossy patches in our lawn so we can regrow some grass there. They have lots of work to do and our lawn maintenance crew (our sons) never laid eggs while they worked.