There’s nothing easy about moving 30 broiler chicks. Call it organized chaos. Turns out baby broilers don’t especially like humans or want to be held. Approach them from one side of the brooder and they all run to the other. Transferring them to pasture in the newly built chicken tractor was definitely a job for […]
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Our Freedom Ranger broiler chicks are three weeks old and outgrowing the brooder in the basement. Time to move them outside, so I’m building them this “tractor” they can live in for the next month or so until it’s time for them to get the knife. The concept of a chicken tractor is to move […]
I’ve started moving our mobile chicken coop away from the house, where the pullets have been roaming the last few weeks. Destination: the orchard. The first night I moved the coop the chickens were a bit disoriented. I went out after dark to close the coop and found a dozen pullets all piled on top […]
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