Hobby farming with the family. We’re giving you a little tour of our chicken tractors here. Our tractors/moveable coops are designed using John Suscovich’s book “Stress-Free Chicken Tractor Plans", and we can truly say there was not a lot of stress that went in to building and using these houses! The idea behind these is to allow our meat birds to get fresh air 24/7 and to be able to forage grasses and insects, while keeping them safe from predators. Predators around here include raccoons, possums, coyotes, foxes, and hawks.

(We also have a flock of laying hens and a couple of roosters - they have their own coop which is part of our barn. No chicken tractors for that crew. We’ll have to do a separate blog post on those pampered ladies.)