The Chicken Tank // Building an Indestructible Chicken Tractor

Chicken tractors are supposed to be lightweight and portable. I messed up.

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Our first ever meat chickens will be arriving in a few weeks. Our plan is to raise them on pasture as part of our rotational grazing strategy and to do that properly a chicken tractor is needed. A chicken tractor is a mobile coop and is designed to be lightweight and easily moveable. In typical “me” fashion I threw those points out the window in favor of this behemoth.

There are two main types of tractor: Salatin style and Suscovich style. Each have their own pros and cons but for our purposes we gravitated toward the Suscovich model. We utilized upcycled metal roofing for the roof of the coop and hardware cloth for the walls.

At the end of the build we had a “hoss daddy” of a tractor that is incredibly difficult to move but should withstand anything Mother Nature can throw its way. And besides, the tractor only needs to move about 8ft at a time, so why does weight matter anyway? (sarcasm font)

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