Meat bird chicken tractor

Simple plans for one 10x10 DIY chicken tractor using a few standard tools and about $200 in supplies. Accommodates 50-60 pastured meat birds.

Step-by-step instructions for building a DIY chicken tractor for meat birds! This design is 10'x5'x2' which works for up to 25 birds.

Im wanting to order some meat birds, Im thinking of getting 25. I havent built anything to keep them in yet. I just dropped 500 in my first coop for my...

We just butchered our first ever group of meat chickens, the process overall went pretty good, but there are definitely things that we will change next time. Here are some common mistakes with meat chickens. This year we had 37 cornish crosses that we raised in a chicken tractor for 10 weeks. We ended up...Read More

Every morning I move the chicken tractor to new grass.

Interested in raising meat chickens? Learn about chicken tractor set-ups and raising meat chickens in a chicken tractor.

There are lots of ways to raise chickens in one's backyard: free ranging, rotational pasturing, tractoring, etc. Meat breeds tend to eat a lot of feed and gain weight quickly, and those traits have come at the expense of foraging behavior (cornish cross, we're looking at you). One way to get those meat birds out in the fresh air a bit while forcing the little butterballs to eat some greenery (and poop around the yard instead of two feet from the feeder) is to put them on a bit of a diet and…

Large and durable, our a-frame chicken tractor made raising chickens a snap. Learn how we built our mobile coop with these instructions.

Is it worth it to raise your own meat birds? Here's what happened during our second year, including a big setback, plus our exact costs and earnings.

I almost don't even want to share our great big costly meat bird mistake of 2018, because it was so terrible and so avoidable.