Tag: farm life

Chicken tractors: Putting the ‘chicken chain gang’ to work in the garden

Aug 25, 2012

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by

Heidi Marttila-Losure

in Farms

With the revived interest in poultry come new ideas about how to keep them, including innovative designs for chicken tractors—mobile cages that get chickens outside and scratching on grass and dirt (or in unused corners of your garden, where they fertilize as they go) but that keep them safe from predators.