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    EASY, INEXPENSIVE CHICKEN TRACTOR

    Jan 04, 2019 4 minutes
    Article and photos by Daniel Olson

    A“chicken tractor” is a portable enclosure that allows chickens to be rotated across a pasture in a controlled pattern. In addition, it helps protect your flock from predators and provides shelter from severe weather.

    A viable chicken tractor must be durable, lightweight, animal-friendly, and inexpensive. Finding a way to balance all of these qualities to fit your needs is the key to building a chicken tractor that’ll work for you. Many successful poultry farmers have adopted various styles of chicken tractors that incorporate these concepts and allow them to efficiently raise lots of healthy, happy birds.

    The first chicken tractor we built was framed with 2-by-4s and was very

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