If you are not familiar with the term “Chicken Tractor”, its basically just a portable chicken run so that chickens can be moved around to eat fresh grass, much like a tractor mowing a yard.  We had originally planned to allow the chickens to free range in our backyard.  That lasted for a couple weeks….right up until we lost 6 chickens to a family of Georgia Red Foxes.  The chickens seemed so happy free-ranging so we hated to leave them locked up in the chicken coop and attached run with no access to fresh grass.  That’s when we decided it was time to design and build a “Chicken Tractor”.  Continue reading Homemade Chicken Tractor: a mobile home for hens →