Around this old homestead, the chicks (five Barred Rocks and a Broad-Breasted turkey) have shown that the key to ridiculous growth rates is to become eating-and-pooping machines.
That can only mean one thing: this rookie poultry farmer is spending the holiday weekend building a chicken tractor (yay).
Today carries a chance of rain followed by five forecast days of sunny and dry (if cool) weather. I cannot believe I spent a week in May worrying about a dry spell.
We have 3 hens, 3 pullets, 3 five week old chicks and one rooster. We need to expand the coop. I’ve seen the “tractors”. Looks like a great idea.
What is a chicken tractor? All I can envision is a John Deere pulled by a couple of roosters.