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Which Chicken Tractor works best on our Homestead? John Suscovich or Joel Salatin?

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We are talking about our favorite chicken tractor, the Suscovich chicken tractor or the Salatin tractor. We have made and used both types of tractors and there is one the is way more fuctional to us than the other. The Suscovich tractor is our clear choice. It is so nice to be able to walk into tractor and feed, water, and get the birds when you need them. We will build more of these in the future for meat chickens and also ducks or laying chickens.
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@GrowingLittleCountryhomestead 3 года назад

I’m glad you didn’t edit out the lock in. That’s funny and real. 😂 really enjoyed this one.

@KCFarms 3 года назад

Thanks. I had just talked to a buddy about the lock and possibly getting locked in. Of course it happens on the video!

@nicolasbaptista3631 Год назад

Theres another company called Maker Pipe which makes connectors to build with conduit pipe.

@jachse8464 Год назад

Run a wire over a few inches above the feeder thru the center of a length of 1/2" PVC. This acts as a carrying reel to prevent perching above the food. Not an issue with meat birds, but needed for eggers and duals.

@jonathanmadsen9338 2 года назад

Glad you're happy with yours, because that's the way I have just started!

@KCFarms 2 года назад

I think you’ll be happy

@1959chief1 3 года назад

Thanks for adding the blooper, and the build video. Love your channel!

@KCFarms 3 года назад

Thanks for following along!! Appreciate the support!

@willie9767 Год назад

That's a Jake 90 ie😊

@s.h.2708 2 года назад

Hardware cloth on the lower sides does matter re predators in my experience. I appreciated your comparison of two types. I have locked myself in my chicken tractor before. Lol. I have a string inside now that will lift the latch!!

@hanginlaundry360 7 месяцев назад

Agree on the hardware cloth! I've had coons maul chickens reaching through chicken wire.

@RoseCityReptilesTX Год назад

Going to build some of these soon! Thanks for sharing your experience. 😅🤣 locked in haha, great way to end the video

@KCFarms Год назад

Welcome!

@Refresh5406 Год назад

For the back part with the wheels lifting the thing off the ground, you could probably put some sort of rubber door sweep/draft stopper along the back wall

@smittys19daytona Год назад

First time looking at these I can see the advantages for the smaller homestead, Salatin's hold 75 birds and doesn't recommend going in both work I Nice Job framing it with the full dimension lumber

@johncspine2787 3 года назад

Yeah..I changed my permanent coop hardware to a heavy duty, lockable latch that is impossible to get locked in..after locking myself in and crawling out the chicken door. Now my auto door is too small to do that, so, had to change. My girls are growing so fast, almost two weeks old now, might add heat to the coop and get them out after four or five weeks. Really enjoy having them inside, getting to know them.

@journeyfortwo5211 2 года назад

Haha, hilarious ending, dad keeps getting locked in the chicken coop

@willie9767 Год назад

That's what I'm doing thanks

@cameronshaw599 3 года назад

If you drill a small hole through the door frame above the latch, you can run a piece of string through the hole to the latch and save yourself from getting locked in!

@KCFarms 3 года назад

👍 we did end up doing that. I was just one time to late

@SusanRogersMakingItWork4Me Год назад

Hardware cloth is the way to go! Here in East Texas, we have Bobcats, chickenwire is "nothing"! I have a run, because a chicken tractor is not something I am physically able to move, due to disabilities. Ahh...the good ole days when I was "capable"....

@07negative56 3 года назад

I’ve been using John’s design for years! I swear by these chicken tractors. I live in the Sierras of Kommifornia. But with our hilly property. I start at the top of a hill and go down. My 9 yr old daughter can do it even. As for lumber. I just threw down a deposit on a Woodmizer LX55 with all the add ons. I highly suggest getting one. It’s a 6 month wait & $7grand. But it’s a tool you can make money from.

@KCFarms 3 года назад

That’s awesome man

@michaelripperger5674 Год назад

Word for the wise - use hardware cloth on the bottom - predictors will tear through that like hot butter

@MrFakit Год назад

Hopefully the kids had a good laugh and took pics . . .🤣

@KCFarms Год назад

😂

@danclas5983 2 года назад

I'm getting ready to try out raising my own meat birds and I've been back and forth on what tractor I wanted to build. We've always raised laying hens with a permanent coop and due to building space I wanted to go mobile for the meat birds. Your video made my mind up for me, think I might use a different door latch though, LOL. Thank you.

@KCFarms 2 года назад

Awesome glad it helped. A better latch is probably a good thing haha

@liamgarner6856 2 года назад

@@KCFarms ok awesome thanks. You wouldn’t know where the best place to get that stapler would be do you? I think I might’ve found it on amazon

@ruffnarbobnar5960 2 года назад

Subbed and liked. I plan on building one of these early next year and having a go a chickens. At work we use long lengths of 1x8 Teflon boards. Thinking of taking a few cutoff pieces to put at the front corners of the pen. Should make it that much easier to move

@KCFarms 2 года назад

Thanks for following and good long on your journey

@amandanemes5238 3 года назад

My brother in law uses the Suscovich chicken tractors for pasture chickens. They love them too. Moving them is easy, no wheels on his I think. I like the connectors in place of bending.

@KCFarms 3 года назад

Yes you probably could drag them pretty easy without the wheels

@noahsturgill20 6 месяцев назад

Good video I'm glad I'm not the only one that gets locked in and has to have their kid😂

@KCFarms 6 месяцев назад

😂

@shanaeholloman Год назад

Thanks for this video! I love Joel Salatin, started looking into building an A-frame chicken tractor instead though. This is the first I’ve heard of Suscovitch though, so I’m thankful I found your video!

@KCFarms Год назад

We love the A frame! Appreciate you following along!

@BigChickenLilRanch Год назад

You should go check John Suscovich out too, he's got a lot on pasture poultry.

@mrsrlkennedy 3 года назад

Great video. We had been debating on the tractor options. This end was too funny

@PerspectiveDesignCo 3 года назад

Man, those turned out great. Can’t wait to finish mine and get some meat birds in them. I had a friend help and we incorporated some extra slots for future expansion! Well, he incorporated extra lap joints. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@KCFarms 3 года назад

Hey you can never be to sure always good to think ahead!

@turkeycreekhomestead 3 года назад

I love the suscovich tractor....and I too, have been locked in..lol

@KCFarms 3 года назад

Yes definitely need to fix it so I can open from inside

@justinboisvert9434 2 года назад

Love the 90 EMT connector idea. Getting all my 90 bends to line up was a headache...and it looks like junk (thank goodness for the tarp). I'll be using these connectors on my next ones.

@KCFarms 2 года назад

I tried eyeballing the bends and found out it doesn’t take much bend

@georgestyer2153 Год назад

Thanks for the upload. Likes and subbed. Great idea. Wife saw your video and has now ordered me to make 3 ☺☺☺ Million thanks

@KCFarms Год назад

Haha your welcome! Appreciate you following along!

@charadreemurr2510 2 года назад

I think i had you as my elementary PE coach

@KCFarms 2 года назад

Are you is coach Lipham’s AG class

@halilbalaban1056 4 месяца назад

Hello chicken caravan. Thank you very much for this nice informative video. I just started following you. I live in Turkey and I want to produce laying hens that graze on pastures. I will benefit greatly from the guidance you showed. I am looking for an answer to a question that I am curious about. I using the number of 100 chickens as an example. In a strong pasture consisting of highly mixed and nutritious grains, legumes, green vegetables and some other vegetables, what should be the minimum area in square meters to feed 100 chickens in 2 days? Of course, I'm talking about a flat area where there is not even a single square meter of unused space. Thank you in advance, hoping you will answer this question.

@schammond8993 Год назад

Everyone that does a review of the book says the same thing about being a little confusing or that it is hard to understand. It must be a good book or folks would not keep buying it or building these tractors. I'm sure he knows this so it would be great if he would do a part 2 edition. I'm sure it would sell to folks like me that are carpentry idiots. lol Good video. I hate it when I get locked in. 🤣 luckily my neighbor was home.

@KCFarms Год назад

Haha good thing

@anthonyrobichaux7985 2 года назад

List of everything to make one

@suzilouden5964 3 года назад

That looks like a way better design, so much easier to work when you aren't bending over 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@KCFarms 3 года назад

So much better!!

@027Star Год назад

Great info, I just don't understand how you forget who you got that great idea of the poles from. That made this whole thing so much easier for me smh, but thanks anyways for sharing

@laurie8166 Год назад

I really need to build one of these for some of my birds. Lately is has been very windy and rainy that no matter what type of cage I have, the tarp ends up functioning like a sail and flipping up the cage 😤

@jasonmurray7604 Год назад

I looked through the comments to see if anyone else had said anything. Is no one gonna mention the entire warehouse full of bowling pins this guy has on his property??? 😆

@KCFarms Год назад

Yup haha. We have a bowling pin refinishing business.

@ronmetz9172 3 года назад

What brand of poultry netting do you recommend? How does the netting you use hold up in a hard wind? Out here in the TX panhandle we regularly get 30-40 mph winds. How do you think the suskovich tractor would hold up in that kind of wind as you built it? I wish we had sawmills out here. Kind of hard to have a sawmill business when there aren’t any trees 😂

@KCFarms 3 года назад

We use premier 1 electric netting. It gets pretty windy here and holds up well. I think the tractor would be fine just might need to anchor tarp down a little better if it’s always that windy

@thewebbpack5447 Год назад

We are in the TX Panhandle too and were asking ourselves this very thing. Thank you!

@pattierwin4380 2 года назад

If you don’t have hardware cloth on the bottom, have you ever had problems with raccoons ripping it off or sticking their arms through and ripping the chicken’s head off?

@KCFarms 2 года назад

I haven’t so far we are thinking of changing the bottoms to hardware cloth. Also we have put electric netting around them at times

@xenophobiix Год назад

Yes just put electric netting around and you’ll be good

@hanginlaundry360 7 месяцев назад

I've had that happen. Put an electric wire around the bottom.

@liamgarner6856 2 года назад

Curious if you still like this chicken tractor over other designs and if you have links of where you got your piping, pipe bending, and staple gun.

@KCFarms 2 года назад

Definitely like this tractor the best I don’t have links but I know you can get the book from John suscovich

@meesiphht2769 2 года назад

what's the basic dimensions on these?

@erikb2358 2 года назад

Did ever happen the predators to get in? How do you protect chickens?

@KCFarms 2 года назад

We didn’t have predators get in. You could put electric fence around them. I have also seen people run a low single strand of electric around the bottoms of tractors

@erikb2358 2 года назад

@@KCFarms Sorry just another question ...could chicken be held permanently inside chicken tractors or you must let them out on daily basis or every now or then?

@KCFarms 2 года назад

We keep our Cornish cross in permanently and love the tractor twice a day so they are on fresh grass

@erikb2358 2 года назад

@@KCFarms Thank you.

@raysbees7650 Год назад

What are you feeding them and what $ does it run for the 8 weeks to harvest?

@zacharyburgess4765 2 года назад

I’m new to the channel so this may have already been talked about, but umm, what are the bowling pins in your garage for?? Almost looks like maybe you refinish and paint them? 3:12

@KCFarms 2 года назад

You are correct!!

@diybuildlist9409 Год назад

How wide is your door?

@priscillagipson-huntley1842 7 месяцев назад

Do you not have problems with predators digging in underneath?

@KCFarms 7 месяцев назад

We haven’t so far and now we own a livestock guardian dog

@joshua511 Год назад

In MO we get some very strong winds. Do these hold up well during 60mph wind gusts? Or is there anything you would change to make it heavier on the bottom?

@KCFarms Год назад

So far we haven’t had issues I would drill a hole through the bottom boards in the trim and back and stake them down if needed

@ghluvs4eva95 2 года назад

Do you keep the chickens in these over night? How well does the chicken tractor hold up during tornado season?

@KCFarms 2 года назад

Yes we do. We haven’t had issues with them so far

@Mamayoung06 2 года назад

Could you use it as a greenhouse when not growing bird? We're limited on space and considering raising some meat chickens and would like a greenhouse. Wondering if this could be dual purpose when not using for chickens.

@KCFarms 2 года назад

Possibly might need to put plastic around the ends

@OrigEntertainmentOfficial 2 года назад

Are those bowling pins in the background at 10:34?

@KCFarms 2 года назад

Yes we have a bowling pin refinishing business.

@AviaryBirdsAndCo Год назад

What did you use to attach your wheels? Is it just a regular screw?

@KCFarms Год назад

Yes I think it is a 5/8 by 5 or 6 in. Bolt

@pittylovinmom Год назад

Meat birds just sleep in the grass?

@KCFarms Год назад

Yes

@jgclarke0352 Год назад

Soooo why do u like the suskovich tractor better than the salatin one?

@KCFarms Год назад

The biggest reason is it’s easier to get inside to feed and water and also get the birds out for processing

@jgclarke0352 Год назад

@@KCFarms awesome feedback! Thanks for the response. Love the vids btw. Also I'm in kc how do I find u? I'm processing g my first chickens this weekend :)

@KCFarms Год назад

We are in Tennessee. The KC was my fathers nickname

@wallacewimmer5191 2 года назад

👍👍

@shimy333 2 года назад

why not just make it out of those metals rods with the connectors? are they much more expensive?

@KCFarms 2 года назад

I have thought about that but I like the weight with the wood so it can’t be lifted up as easy by predators

@shimy333 2 года назад

@@KCFarms how about some tent stakes in the ground to keep in it secure wouid that work?

@KCFarms 2 года назад

That could work but then you pulling stakes out and putting them in everyday but not a bad idea. Maybe I need to make one and do a video?

@shimy333 2 года назад

@@KCFarms I think it would work out really well .. you could also put those spike strips around the sides that they have to keep pigeons off window sills.. the stakes could be in and out in a few seconds

@kurtbognar6806 2 года назад

Are yall in KC or Tennessee?!

@KCFarms 2 года назад

We are in Tennessee. The KC is my dad’s nickname

@carolinelewis8044 3 года назад

Pvc would be much lighter.. ..

@KCFarms 3 года назад

Definitely would I have seen a few built out of pvc

@shavanerad9038 Год назад

Bet you got the mods from this guy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3G0QNrHTokA.html I haven't built one yet but I've been spending this week researching, and just saw the mod video yesterday, so it was high up in my history and saved under my "Poultry" playlist. :)

@coziii.1829 3 года назад

Why is there a name on these they been around longer than I been alive or my grandpa. People had to do what they had to do . . 4 foot dog kennels will work Even PVC pipe Cattle panels Why give credit to what’s been around Everyone gets idea and improve on it . To me get pallets and cattle panels with pvc of course chicken wire or hardware cloth . One of mine is a 10x10 dog kennel. With cattle panels you can turn it in to a green house dog house rabbit cage. Goat shelter . Etc . Well anyway not knocking it but I’m just saying they didn’t invent it to peg the name.

@squaredawayacres1318 3 года назад

The dude perfected the design and then marketed it and sold it. Sounds smart to me. Lots of people getting into homesteading that dont know the old ways. He has an easy readable plan to build something and people wanted it.

@KCFarms 3 года назад

☝🏻

@ryanangus1676 Год назад

If there’s somebody that has compiled systems into a comprehensive, repeatable methodology, they will understandably get “credit” for the methodology; regardless of where the equipment in fact originated. It’s not really about credit, though about communication. Describing the equipment as a publisher’s preference, is the least clumsy way to communicate the methodology.

@hanginlaundry360 7 месяцев назад

He laid out his specific plan and instructions in a book, and sold it. Seems fair!

@elliottjames671 Год назад

It's not auto doe

@Jonathold Год назад

It took you until 13:30 in your 15.5 minute video to actually start laying out the advantages of using the suscovich vs. the salatin model, and then it was literally 40 seconds of talking about the advantages before you started the 'hit the like/subscribe button' bs. You never once talked about the salatin model at all, except to say that's where you started. This was a waste of 15 minutes of my limited time. With a title like "which chicken tractor works best on our homestead?" I was expecting something a bit more insightful. I will likely not waste any more of my time on your videos.

@Jonathold Год назад

This video should have been titled "How I constructed a suscovitch tractor" as that was the only thing you actually talked about.

@Jonathold Год назад

And btw, before I get a bunch of hate responses, there is a lot of merit to this video, particularly in the construction of suscovich tractors. I'm not denying that. But the premise, according to the video title, implied there would be talk about which worked better for him, and why. Simply saying "it gives better access" and then the rest of the video is about the construction just doesn't cut it. I'm disappointed that I spent 15 minutes watching a construction video that was billed as a video about which style worked better for your homestead. I feel like I got click-baited. Which is exactly what happened. I simply can't trust that a video from your channel is going to be what it purports to be.