New Chicken Tractors

Our pastures have been pretty heavily over grazed by our two horses. Last fall we were able to find a new home for Lucy and Princess at a farm with three young girls wanting to ride. Since then, we've let our pastures rest and recover a bit on their own. Now it's time to turn up the juice and revitalize them! The best way to do so is to fertilize. Being that we have plenty of birds ready and willing to provide all the manure we could ever need, it's a piece of cake. In order to have the fertilizer exactly where we need it without having to shovel it by hand we've built portable tractors for the birds to live in. This way we can have the birds lay the manure wherever it is needed while still giving them the protection and fresh pasture they need. It's a win-win-win! Win for the birds -- win for us -- win for the pasture! Martha took some pictures of Whitt and I setting the new tractors in place!

Talk about a roll cage!

Bringing one of the tractors to the middle pasture.

It takes two to stand the tractor up so we can move the gator...

..and two to lower it down.

We also made some light weight tractors just for chickens.

Now, to move the birds!

Last, we set up the electro-net to set the boundary.

Now every morning after feeding, we move the tractors and birds all at once!