Portable DIY CHICKEN TRACTORS for Any Budget
Feb 08, 2019
4 minutes
By Robin Mather
A few laying hens in the backyard has almost become the icon of today’s self-sufficiency movement. Birds kept in a portable chicken coop on pasture provide delicious, inexpensive eggs, and the eggs from birds that get plenty of grass, bugs, and seeds to eat are better for you than store-bought eggs. Hens are great converters of kitchen waste into valuable manure for the garden, and every chicken owner we know takes a lot of pleasure in just watching the chickens noodle around in the yard.
Free-range birds, however, are often taken by foxes, bobcats, hawks, dogs, or other predators, so unless you have guardian dogs that can keep predators away, your best option is probably a portable
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