Chicken tractor capacity?
- From: Joe Bramblett <kd5nrh@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:37:03 -0500
We recently received some abandoned chickens that were left
behind when someone moved out of a rent house that a friend
does the maintenance for. They're still finding some
occasionally, but so far we have nine surviving bantams,
two large, and one in-between sized. The larger ones seem
content to stay in the garden fence, but at least one bantam
has already wandered off and disappeared.
What I've thrown together from scrap wood and a couple rolls
of chicken wire is loosely based on the A-frame chicken
tractor design; roughly 12x4ft, no floor, and tall enough
for me to crawl through. Right now it's just wire all
around, but next week, I'll be enclosing the back 4ft, with
some sort of nesting boxes, adding a small door there, and
putting wheels on it.
How many bantams can something like this support, assuming
it will be moved fairly often? How often should be enough?
Any other suggestions on this project? Our two main goals
are reducing the grasshoppers, and taming the overgrown
remains of the former garden.
I know I should know more about the breeds, but I grew up
raising free-ranging chickens, and as long as grain and
bugs went in one end, and eggs and fertilizer came out the
other, they were all just big or little, hen or rooster.
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