Chicken tractor weight problem

making a chicken tractor light weight

The one downside to all the
recent chicken tractor repairs has been weight gain.




Our nest
box collapsed
last week
and instead of replacing the rotted wood I cut a piece of aluminum
flashing to support a straw nest.




Make sure the sharp edges are
out of the way. A metal nest bottom is much lighter than wood and won’t
rot after it gets a little moist.

gallon chicken tractor bucket holder

do it yourself bucket holder for a chicken tractor

We upgraded our chicken
tractor water container to a 2 gallon bucket.




It was easy to fabricate a
wooden holder from scrap pieces of furring strips.




Anything bigger than 2
gallons might prove to be too heavy for a chicken tractor. On most days
we’ll only fill it half way up, but the extra capacity is nice when you
need to go away for the weekend.