Chicken Tractor Good Design Practices, Tips & Tricks For Building, Ideas
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- Опубліковано 20 сер 2024
- www.jlmissouri.com The Lewis Family Farm
A video on good ideas to incorporate into the design of your chicken tractor. Good ways to water and feed your birds as well as overall tractor design.
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This is by far the best collection of great ideas for chicken tractors I've seen in one place. I'm all steady to go out and make some of my own. Thanks!
Ostara616 Thank you
What element of security do you out in place for nights...racoons, opossums, etc?
...around the edge.
Did you ever get around to making your chicken tractors and if so,how did it go?
I have not....questions unanswered.
We get strong storms here in the mid-west and I am trying to answer that control. Me think we must tie down at each move. With a closed end, which is needed, the wind would take it across the field.
I want one...just haven't found a satisfactory answer...yet.
I am designing a chicken tractor now, I will definitely be incorporating some of these tips into the design, love it.
thanks for the video.
I don't even have chicks, but after watching this video I fell very well informed about a chicken tractor use. Well thought out and well explained. Thanks for sharing.
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chickens prefer wooden roosting bars over pvc because they are easier to hold, and perhaps more of them than you have in your designs dust boxes are also good, having said that, great video, very helpful and informative, great design and love the bug zapper idea, cannot wait to try it out, well done
+Jeremy smithThanks and I agree. My birds usually free range so they make there own dust baths no need to do the work. I use pvc for perches because it is more sanitary and easier to incorporate into a pvc tractor.
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Your feed bowl ideas is great!
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Very good ideas and details! I would center the feed shelf on the wall and make it wider with a wide/narrow trough so more chickens can get to food across the front and on the sides. While there head can fit through a 2 inch wire, their bodies still need 6 inches to stand next to each other. It will be less stress and pushing to get food.
+LKH Fun Thanks, yes adapt however works best for you.
@@JL-by4xu Yes, I could see one chicken being stood on on the right side of the feed room. There needs to be more room so no one has to be pushed down. Food time should not be laborious. It should be free. So it is not however it works best for you. Its however it works best for all the chickens... thanks for all the ideas :)
Thank you so much for this video. Hubby and I had no clue how to make one of these with pvc. the wood was too heavy for us to move as we are both seniors and arthritic. this is so doable and will be much lighter. thank you!
Catherine McGuire Good, pvc is light weight, durable and easy to work with. Good luck on your build
I’m in the same boat, needing lightweight and easy to move. Great place to start.
Can't believe I haven't thought of putting a push bar in my tractor. Great idea.
Merci from Montreal, Canada.
SAFETY BAR,EXCELLENT IDEA! ONE OF MANY!
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Has concrete floor with drainage so easy washout when nessary...otherwise I use hay and the hay help in garden and growing potatoes..thanks to another idea on utube ..Thank you all for great ideas ...
the bug zapper is a great idea....never thought of that. Thanks
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Just found your UA-cam video. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for sharing, that bug light was icing on the cake!
Good idea for feeding chickens, wow!! We have to do this on our homestead!!!
Man, this concept is Great! A Moveable Chicken Coop solves many problems associated with raising chickens. I thank you for your insight with your Chicken Tractor Designs!
We have used them for over a decade with great success. Thanks
Very informative thanks. I found your youtube video on building the ultimate chicken tractor about 3 to 4 years ago. The tractor is quite resilient to the strong winds that we have here in central NC, USA. I am trying to incorporate wheels onto the tractor because it is rather heavy and expect it to be heavier after I install solar panels, batteries, electric fence charger, light and bugzapper :). I have found that rolling CT on a piece of 4" PVC helps get it to the next spot down the line though. Thanks again.
Some great ideas you have here. I particularly like the night light that attracts bugs for extra protein. Although my set up is far different from a mobile set up, your ideas have inspired me to make some major changes. Thanks for the tips.
Ally Chumley Thanks, Yes a lot of the ideas can be used on a stationary coop and run setup as well.
@@JL-by4xu Great video, excellent suggestion and loads of experience, please excuse my ignorance. night light will provide protien but isnt that disturb chickens to sleep? i mean when night falls naturally we should sleep. this is my question. Thank you again for a such a nice video.
Do they catch flying bugs?
wow I am new to this but your chicken tractor is the clenest I have seen most look like they got it from a dump any way nice job thank you.
EXCELLENT bunch of great ideas. Thanks for putting this up for us.
+GetMeThere1 Thank You
Best summary of design features for incorporation into our design.
Great job with lots of interesting and practical steps for constructing the tractor.
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Very good designs inovations,, congratulations Mr. Lewis, that's a good reason to admire more the American People.
Justus Rambaldi Thanks
You are are genius 👍. Like your design
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Sorry i got distracted by the cat before i finished my comment. I also wanted to say thank u for making the video i learned alot!
Nice design. On covering food, have had whole scratch grains get rained on, and get moldy at bottom of food bowl, and also get moldy after dumping on ground and day or two later young birds ate it and got sick. So now I encourage keeping food dry, no matter if it is whole grain or cracked or milled. Never thought about buckets for nest boxes. I would put boxes below roost so the girls don’t sleep in the straw. Pvc is good for ground contact. I would use 2” wood roost.
Best most useful chicken Tractor Video. Thank you!
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Video was as well done as those chicken tractor s. Thank you.
I know totally nothing about such stuff.. but having said that, I found this video is to be very well done and very interesting. I stayed interested right to the end. Good job, Mr Lewis. Thank you.
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New subscriber just because your smart and made my life better.
Blessings and more Blessings
I really like the buckets and the roosting area in the bigger chicken tractor. thanks for sharing sir I just got my first batch of chickens. know am putting my research into action.
No problem, the buckets have worked well and are easy to clean. I wish it were my idea but I got it somewhere else just modified it with the back door being the backside of the nest bucket.
Thanks for inspiration about caring for the precious animals.
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Wow! Great amenities with easy access. I would need a parts list and dimensions before I could start this project. I could adjust dimensions to fit my needs, but would need something to go by. Thank you for this video. I’ll go bug Lowe’s.
I especially love the feed idea from the outside so simple yet so ingenious
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I really liked the nest box buckets. I may incorporate that design into mine.
+Terry Pearson I have been very happy with them.
This is too cool! Great ideas. I dream of having chickens one day.
Chicken tractors are great in the city. Would not get a rooster if in town. Most cities we habe lived in allow chickens if the neighbors do not complain. Live your dream. Blessings
Very good and informative video thanku so much
Thanks for sharing. Great information.
This is an excellent chicken tractor! You have thought of everything. Thanks!
Thanks, I have come close but I have added a few tweaks since this video.
The feeder idea is a great one.
Thanks so much for your pointer on the food area.
No problem
best collection of tips, I haven't heard of many of these. Really good fixes to many problems I see discussed elsewhere.
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This is a fantastic video! I wish that I had found it BEFORE I built my current coop. This video is a general overview of things that work. Every suggestion looks like it will give max return on effort expended.
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Awesome video with lots of great tips and ideas. thanks for your time and effort.
Great tips mate, I am building a tractor at the moment and will incorporate quite a few of those ideas
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lots of great tips in this video. i use an old little tikes playhouse for my coop.
+DA Myatt Thanks, I use a camper shell for a chick brooder. Whatever works I am a fan of.
Very nice idea...
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IT'S FABULOUS, FULLY INCREDIBLE, THANK YOU!!!!!
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Brilliant, I am sooooooo going to build this
Like the bug zapper. You have some good ideas.
Great idea with the solar walkway lights!
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That's fantastic
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Thank you for taking the time and trouble to make this video. I am trying to learn all I can before I get my first chickens next year. I live in town and a small chicken tractor sounds like a great idea for the reasons you describe in this video. I am afraid I am not all that handy, but i think I will be able to find someone to build for me and want to provide a smart design. I learned a lot watching your video. I'm on my way to see if you have more! Best to you from Kansas!
+Dahlia Bristow Thank you, I hope you have good luck getting your flock started.
Wow awesome, best I've seen yet. Thank you for sharing.
Joseph Lewis, all round well thought out and executed, nice work!
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my suggestion is to place a few giant sized hamster wheels inside the tractor so that when the chickens are in there running the tractor will actually move,' auxillary solar banks can also provide Power
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful ideas! Excellent video!
Dorothea Lowe Thank you
Awesome looking tractor. The only thing I would suggest is not using a slipper pipe for the roosting bar and use a flat piece of wood. Love the food dish idea :)
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Nice design but the PVC Roost is a bit slippery for those chickens
Best one yet
GREAT INFORMATION BROTHER. GOD BLESS
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very nice
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I love this video. A lot of rules of thumb. THANKS
Hanniboon Thank you
excellent idea for the feed bowl access
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Nice job! Very informative. One of the best I have watched. God Bless!
Very gooddddd tips.. tq.
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amazing
outstanding idea
by far on point thanks a lot
Awesome ideas ... I like the solar powered bug zappers
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Thank you, we sure have so much to learn if we make this dream come true!
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Lots of great ideas! thanks!
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Great ideas. Feed box idea is awesome!
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Lots of good ideas ,thanks.
+Richard Love Thanks
Teach us more great chicken master! I paid my tuition with the obligatory like and subscribed - thanks for not asking :)!
Very good
Good effort
Love the extra bar to keep the chicks from being run over during moving.
Yes, I got tired of my chickens getting stuck under the coop. Thanks
I like this food box idea I'm using it haha great idea...
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Cool I am tamilian
Great information! thank you very much for sharing!!
john mcnally Thanks
Thanks for the great ideas and tips
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Exceptionally well done. All of this is useful. Thank you.
+SLFYSH Thanks
thanks for sharing the video is great i really like it
and im going to make one tomorrow for my chikens
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Holy shit! I just learned so much in this one video🤯
Thanks for all the great information. Very helpful!
+shecatch22 Thanks
This is a really excellent video. I love your design ideas. Also you get a +1 for having Clint Eastwood do the voiceover :-) Have a great day!
Torquil Harkness Thanks,
Solar bug lights and the feed cage are getting out in mine tomorrow lol
Can you link the one you use
you are badass my friend i love all of your designs thanks for getting me off the couch lol
+Edward Tyndall Thank you
May I suggest you cut a branch/limb off a tree and tie it with wire to the steel pole you use for the chickens to roost on at night, this will be better for the chickens feet than the steel pole, but it will need to be replaced if the chickens eat it, make sure it's a branch/limb with smaller branches coming off it so 4-5 chickens can stand on it and it's okay if some of the tree branch reaches the nesting boxes so long as it doesn't go into the nest making it difficult for the hen in the nest.
I have heard of people doing such, but I like the pvc as it is very easy to clean.
Nice work,how much did it cost you?
Depends on which tractor, $200-$400
Good ideas, though I work in tropical conditions where growing grass in dry months is quite problematic. Thanks,
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Eggselent thank you for sharing.
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Nice video!!
that solar bug zapper is a great idea
I wish it were my idea but I picked it up from someone else on the internet a long time ago.