How to Build an Affordable Chicken Tractor

( not at all in fact!!)

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   You just need to be pointed in the right direction, find a good chicken coop design, or like in my case some comprehensible chicken tractor plans, you need a to formulate a plan.
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   It saves so much time if you draw your plans out-
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   Picked out a spot in the yard for a small chicken coop and possible chicken run - I wanted to be able to put the tractor in the garden and in several places in the yard that tend to be “buggy.”
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   Supplies can be cheep cheep cheep!!
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   Big box hardware stores and they have a cart in the lumber section called “cull lumber” if you have time to wait and shop you can make several visits to this cart and get enough lumber for your project at a fraction of a fraction of the price, also some times there are pallets that can not be returned to the supplier due to damage and they might be willing to part with them ( talk to a manager- the busier the better and if its at the end of the week ever penny counts to make sales) (man I hated that job) and lastly check with the garden department- they get flower bulbs on wooden shelves that are considered disposable, offer to take them off their hands (they’d rather not wrestle them back to the trash any way.
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   Use a drill to screw deck screws in- and beat up torn boxes are sometimes sold at a discount.
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   Hen housing or chicken housing is so easy to do and keeping back yard chickens couldn’t be more fun. Happy farming! (oh and to those of you that are keeping gardens the hardware store discounts don’t stop at lumber- the garden department will stack broken sacks of fertilizer and top soil etc. on a pallet and shrink wrap it to sell for like 10 bucks!!)
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   Now as for being able to fallow a step by step blue print do a little more research, on specific detail on what cuts to make etc.