Wow, I grew up on a farm in my younger days. This video brings back a lot of old memories. Been a "city" guy now for close to 40 yrs. Sure miss the old country life.
Good job Wes, put some hardware cloth around the bottom as well as some tarp to offer protection from the weather around the bottom 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourself, be safe, and healthy 🇨🇦
They might not be able to walk thru, but Raccoons and Foxes can reach through, Weasels can get in.. Also recommend cutting off those sharp edges by the wheels.
suggestion: if you have a local Bowling Alley, see if they have any beat up old balls they would give you and put it in with the pigs so they have something to play with or else they get bored and start chewing on each other - so I am told
First, I am jealous of your warmer weather. It is mud season up here in Wisc. It's been getting warmer (40's and 50's) but also snowing every few days. Supposed to get a few inches tonight. It will melt pretty quickly, but means more mud. We are getting there. The place is really starting to become a little farm the last few years. Good for you! The kennel was a good idea for a chicken tractor. I would be a little concerned with predators getting in, either through those corner openings or from above. Might be worth the investment to get some chicken wire and hog rings to tie things together. Along those lines, I think I would be inclined to take some of your wood scraps and add some cross-bracing on the corners, too. Should help stiffen things up. It will add weight, but probably worth it. Oh, not sure if you have seen the movie, "Office Space", but you two going after those wheels reminded me of the scene they were beating the heck out of the printer. ;-)
I have been thinking about using this concept for a while now. Been very hesitate due to ease of predator access. But after coming across this video today I have some confidence. I'm also willing to give it shot since I was given the kennel. I'm thinking I may wrap the bottom with 2 foot hardware cloth. My next 2 concerns are making it portable and dealing with the rather large gap around the door frame. I think a raccoon could climb through that spacing. I guess worse case i could run a line of hotwire as well but im trying to raise meat for minimal cost haha
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I was thinking maybe water buckets too low? I have been looking into a few options for my girls so curious if they have used them at all. We need a mini chicken tractor for my backyard until we move to the property. We have that green windbreaker stuff that was given to us. Thinking it might work with some T-posts for a portable run.
Is there maybe a different use off the word. In Europ we say RE-cykled wenn we re-use something. When we turne something into something better, like make a wallet out of a broken bike tube, we talk about UP-CYKLING. Nice chicken coop
I would have thought you'd have to cover the entire top, like the area next to the coup because of the hawks in the area. Sorry in advance but, watching you guys trying to get those wheels off the old lawnmower reminded me of an old joke, something about some monkeys and a football....like I said, sorry!
I must have missed part of it. I didn't see an engine anywhere or a tractor. You must have gotten rid of the engine. All I saw was a cage on wheels. The definition of a tractor is a MOTORIZED device for hauling trailers or equipment ! So, where was the tractor? I only watched this video because I want to see a motorized chicken mover according to the title of this video.
It looks like table manners aren't high on 6 week chickens' training. There's one thing even more satisfying than whacking an old mower apart, and that's hitting old toilets with a hammer which I did to make concrete agregate.
They're slobs. A lot of times they just lay on their stomachs with their heads in the feeder. That's how they grow to butcher weight in 8 weeks I guess.
My experience tells me that this will keep your chickens in. However, critters will just reach through that chain link and take chicks all night and every night. I lost legs and partial chickens until I figured out that you must use hardware cloth. A raccoon in my are will also climb up and over that fence and eat them all in one night. I hope and pray you have different results. Have a great day and growing season.
Critters are gonna go under the fencing too. It will be interesting to see how secure they will be. It is far from bullet proof when it comes to potential invasion. And, in response to the comment about a racoon climbing the fence to have a chicken feast ..... it is open to aerial attack from the same flying beasts that spurred him installing netting over the chicken coop yard.
