… though it ’s not the best .
Here ’s the video from a year ago in which I film the material body and shared my thinking on how it call on out :
Though it ’s unwieldy , it ’s been quite utilitarian on our raw property . It was strong enough to just go under on top of a trailer and haul over here , and since there was no post to put chickens , it ’s become our current chicken house .
one-half of my chickens are still at a friend ’s place , actually . One of these days I want to go get them . This single coop is n’t grownup enough for all of the boo . One of my goal for the newfangled year is to build a better system of rules .
Yet even this small , super - heavy kine panel chicken tractor is work just fine for now . We get peradventure 4 - 6 egg a day , plus the birds are clearing the earth out for us .
They ’re under the black walnut tree by the Grocery Row Gardens decent now .
you may see the marshy heap they leave behind . That ’s some serious soil richness , there !
We fuddle almost everything in the compost , from used report towels to newspaper plates , meat scraps , crushed eggshells , kitchen combat , sour milk and more . The chickens happily convert it to beautiful eggs and quality manure .
you may see the large lame they ’ve chew up so far .
That ’s 9 relocation , there , since they were put in this area . They ’ll stay on an area for a few weeks , then we move them .
Some of this area is planted with Saccharum officinarum and some of it will be till into veggie bed . We ’ll see how they do with the walnut base nearby .
you may also see a wild lily to the middle right , growing back after being shredded down to the footing .
It ’s not the musical theme chicken tractor , but it keeps thirteen birds for us and they populate way , way good than the pitiable birds in factory farms .
Ideally I would have them ranging the total area around the pond and woods , but we ’re not quite there yet . right on now they ’re close-fitting and good , and they ’re require out sess and build up full-bodied soil for spring .
