On 24 Feb 2004 23:37:08 +1100, Ivan McDonagh
wrote:

Frogleg wrote

If I could protect them in cold weather,
I'd love to have a 'chicken tractor.'

I wish I'd thought of this a bit earlier since I intend to keep chooks at
some stage - perhaps sooner rather than later!

I just googled for chicken tractor and found not very much that's very
useful ... do you have any good links regarding building tractors and
capacity ? - I'm hoping to keep 20 birds of laying/slaughtering size plus
the same again of chicks.

I'm sorry I can't be of more help. I saw the idea in, I believe, an
old gardening mag, and it looked like a nifty idea. Some sort of
easily movable, enclosed shelter with exercise yard. Here's one
reference I Googled:

http://www.savonburg.org/pen/chickens.html