The Beginners Guide to Small Scale Backyard Pastured Poultry 

love seeing your kids run around in the garden, I want that for my 10month old. I got some time to learn and setup. Thanks for sharing.

This is awesome. We have this same setup for our raised beds to protect them from rabbits and squirrels. I'll have to make use of them for the chickens too! Thanks!

I love your chicken train ! Thank you for sharing your invention!!

Thank you for this idea - a moveable run light enough for me to move around in a confined area :)

"Be nice, be thankful, do the work" Yes!

Build each chicken train slightly bigger to make them stackable for transportation and storage. Thank you for you’re contact sir

You could also use these to cover cabbage or other plants from bugs but putting a cloth over the top and sides of these modules. My garden is 48” wide, but I think with the pvc, it would still be light weight enough to handle easily. Thanks for the idea !

Scalable and easy system, thanks for sharing

New sub from ART and BRI, I love this it looks light, easy for older female to move. Thank you.

Wow! You have a LOT packed in that 1/3 of an acre!! ❣️😳I applaud you. What an inspiration . We all need to be growing 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱.

I've made some small shade houses out of heavy wire mesh and shade cloth for my guinea pigs that free range my lawn at times. I like this approach of using them end-on-end in a modular system. Mine have handles in the peaks of the houses to move them easily.

What a great idea! Keep up the good work!

If you use metals check out the 80/20 framing system(kinda expensive though). Great idea, chickens are excellent at eatting bugs.

Great idea! This is really cool! Great job! I just got chickens and looking for ideas. Brilliant and thank you!

Thank you!

Your "chicken train" idea is pretty clever, Diego. Those PVC+chicken wire runs look easy to move and store, and as long as the chickens stay happy it makes a nice barrier. If your 3.0 make does have a metal frame, that should be a safer bet for keeping predators out.

This is a very doable chicken run and I can tell a lot of thought went into it. The problem I had when I lived in town was dogs. They were my biggest chicken predators. If a dog can get in it thy will wipe out your whole flock like they did mine.

Great idea man and I love the way you have evolved it. Seems really easy to incorporate into market gardens and urban settings. I love your podcast I'm glad you're getting into the RU-vid scene also. Never stop doing this man you're killing it!

Sounds like a good system, thanks for sharing that. :)

Nice idea Sir

That is pure brilliance amazing a much better system

Ingenious Dahlin's:) Imagination Inspires. THANKS ! Have to try that out... Blessings to you and yours. :)

Excellent presentation!

Thank you, I wish I were young enough to do that

Intriguing!

Welcome to new channel “COZY FARM “ THANK YOU 😊 👍✊👍

Appriciate

Very nice I like it 🇵🇸❤️🐓🕊 Respect and love from Palestine 🇵🇸

This is a really good idea. Chickens need to roam. They need bugs. They love to be outside.

This is the first video I watch from your channel, just wanted to let you know, your short, precise episode with a "watch next episode for more" , and great outro, your line is great " Be nice, Be Thankful, and Do The Work" that should go on a tshirt.... anyway, my first video from your channel and because of the things i mentioned before especially the outro, you got a subscription and like and comment from me and now gonna check out another video or two definitely.

Brilliant idea for mobile chicken runs. Metal versions will be much heavier. I think the plastic frames would be easier for me to move and rust resistant.

Great idea! Pest control the natural way.

Nice set up. Liked and subscribed. We're in the process of making some of these chicken tractors

You did a great job..

great idea diego

If considering moving to an EMT metal upgraded version, how about building a bending jig for hoops instead of box style? You could cut substantial weight, and cut cost on materials and fittings. Food for thought. Brilliant concept you're working with here.

Art & Bri sent Me. Good info, Thanks

Nice dude.

Very nice. Love the solution! Thanks

Diego, we're working on a draft proposal for producing food underneath the PV panels in a ten acre solar farm. This version 2.0 chicken train design will have them made in the shade. People get ready, there's a train a-coming.

Tnx

Nice video. Thx for sharing. I made a larger mobile run and it's a bit heavy. Been looking for other options and approaches.

Brilliant

Seems like predators would be able to get into those chickens fairly easy since each of the sections are not connected

true story. me and my boss pulled into my drive, (no homo) and we saw something fly up near my coop, looked like a chicken. I had adolescent chickens that flew high. then it kept flying.... looked at each other. hawk. dead chicken. he helped me put a huge tarp over the run that was 6ft hardware cloth, roughly 20x15 ft. next day: we pull into the drive.....something flys away again!!! I look and there was a chicken in the run, with its broken neck and shredded head being pulled out the run. also there'd by randomly beheaded chickens prior. tarp was romoved a few months after, and never happened again after having a rooster. rooster just died a few days ago widowing 6 hens and orphaning 12 chicks and 20 eggs under a broody hen. here we go again!

Very good. Loved it

free tip, build a caterpillar style tunnel instead, flexible, feel free to patent it as well.

Am curious to know more about why you do this. My chickens got into my small garden when things were growing one year and just destroyed everything

i really like this idea, and would like to try it myself. but i feel that metal versions would be unnecessarily strong, i don't know what type of predator you have to deal with, but here in the UK the biggest thing we have is the fox, which just adding another upright and maybe another top tube would make it plenty strong enough. metal frames will rot out where they are in continual contact with soil, where as i have found that pvc will last. i really like the idea of making them smaller at the top so as to make them stackable. i don't know how will it would work but you could use the clips for fixing the pipe to walls/ect to make a clip on end or make double ended clips for fixing two "train carriages" together. the tunnel that connects the permanent run to the chicken train, do you find that it gets in the way with other duties, for me the wheelbarrow is my best friend, and if this was me i would be tempted to build some wheelbarrow friendly bridge over it, or is it just not problem? i will be interested to see how this develops.

I have that same clip on my wire fencing :P

I love this idea!! Do u think there is any way to modify it so it would fold under for easy storage? Would love something like this but I live in the suburbs where space is limited.

Thanks for Info. Good improvisation. Cheers ;)

Great idea

What a smart idea!

i love this idea :o you could have one sections as sleeping quarters

The Chicken Centipede

Really like the idea!

Great stuff you are chicken hero :D

Cool video and idea. I am curious why you are using the chickens? Are you using them to till the bed after harvest? Having them debug and manure existing beds? A combination of the two?

I didn't know Johnny Depp had a doppelganger that gardens

This is genius!

You obviously don’t have carpet snakes 🐍 like we do in Australia 🙂

Awesome!

Good

Too awesome!

This is so awesome 👌

You have a good idea!tnk u for sharing us.😁😁😁

I am thinking that instead of chicken tunnels to get them to the train cars is making one with lawn mower wheels and handles on the other end put that just out side the night roost bribe the chickens to go in it then lift the handles a Lil bit and move shuffle the hens to the train cars call it the chicken bus "come on girls get in the bus "

Choo choo on the chicken train! P.S. The auto focus has got to get turned off please it creates this retro-psychedelic-phasing effect on larger screens where it looks like everything behind you out of focus is moving and fuzzed.

how is the train? and by chance did you ever experiment with bird netting to see if it did just a good a job (and lower price)?

Great idea. What are you growing in the beds the chickens walk through please?

Very nice. Are the talents of the birds to peck at insects amongst the vegetables? Would they not eat the market produce and therefore be counterproductive? Looks really cool!

Great 👍

Do you worry about predators being able to flip them over and get to the chickens? I know nothing about chickens, but I am trying to learn. I am thinking about getting 3 chickens next year and trying to figure it all out.

how has this system worked over the years? Are you still using it? Is it worth the trouble have making and placing?

Love this...already using a chix tractor but this would make moving around garden beds so much easier. One question, what do you do to provide water inside the train. I have a galvanized auto-waterer but they always perch on it and pollute it if they have room! I keep it up on blocks in the tractor but it's not so handy to move.

Love it.

I like it!

How do you get the chickens back in when you move the tractors and how do you keep them dry when it rains? Snow? Water and feed in there? Also a dog or raccoon would be able to get in. are they laying eggs yet? where?

Very cool

nice nice carry on

I'm looking for opinions. I am going to have two yards. One year I will have my chickens in yard one and grow in yard two and the next year switch. I want the chickens to spend time in the non growing yard amending the soil. Should I also incorporate a chicken moat around both gardens? Is the benefit of the insect removal of a chicken moat worth the loss of time my chickens will spend in my unplanted garden amending the soil. Any opinions or ideas are appreciated

Very nice for an urban environment with low predator pressure. I.e., no raccoons (clever "grabby" predators) or dogs (diggers and tanks). I have lost more birds to raccoons and dogs than any other predator, including hawks. I think if you were to use hardware cloth instead of chicken wire, but keep using the PVC frames, you'd have something that is more predator proof, yet still lightweight enough to move the entire row without too much strain. Do you have a grinder? I find it faster and easier to cut hardware cloth with a grinder than with any scissor-like tool. If there is a Harbor Freight near by, get some cheap disks to cut your wire. Why change to all metal? is a metal frame cheaper than PVC? Metal rusts, is difficult to cut, and is heavy (unless you use aluminium. PVC is easy to work with, does not rust, and if you paint it to be UV-resistant, lasts a long time. If the PVC is too lightweight in windy conditions, consider adding tent stakes. or make stakes from wire coat hangers. You could also lash them together - I'm very fond of velcro cable ties for connecting electric poultry poles and other things, I don't see why it wouldn't work on PVC frames.

Wouldn't they destroy your plants by eating or tearing away at them? How long do you leave them on a section at a time? I thought chicken manure was too hot for a garden?

0:38 can’t plant vine veggies? Like sweet peas, cucumbers ext?

diego, do you ever have issues w the chickens burrowing under the pvc and escaping? I'm trying this in a deep mulch garden, and the mulch is too easy for them to move.

What plants are chickens compatible with in this system? I wouldn't think my salad mix would do well under chicken traffic! Squash maybe? Nightshade family? Root crops maybe??

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I make the coop for hens then I will share how grow and how to keep hens better in the winter and summer something Is necessary before keep the hens.

I like this method, but I don't understand what's the advantages of that and why move it to another place everyday? Please tell me

I don't understand why they're in the garden. Aren't the chickens destroying the vegetables?

Very innovative idea! Where do they go at night?

Excuse my ignorance here but... Won't the chicken eat the leaves of the plants ? I thought of a similar idea, but came to a different conclusion. Anybody can light me on this ? Thanks.

Do you need additional feed when they feed on the cover crops in the train?

Where do your hens lay their eggs??

Yay chickens

Genius! What are the garden plants where you have the run. I don't have much space and I'm going to have to sacrifice part of my garden for them.

Sir, I'm sure this hens are on their laying stage, so how do they lay their eggs in there ?

Big rispec from my side plz help me how to apply this idea in my home gallery 4 feet wide 30 feet long specially i want their droping solutions

Great idea! What is the O.D diameter of the PVC tubing. Thanks