Why use a chook tractor?

The way I see it there are 3 main advantages to using a chook tractor over a conventional chicken run.

First - it's portable - this means you can move it around your yard or paddock which takes advantage of the fertilising and digging your chooks will do for you.   It also means you can dig your next vege garden directly on ground that your chooks have already fertilised for you.  If you have a small yard you can move them out of the way for an afternoon or longer - and you can move them all over the yard so no one area gets too 'chooky'.

Second - it's clean.  Left too long in one spot a chook pen can get a bit smelly.  With one of our chook tractors you can move the whole pen to a new clean spot.  Since we have the nesting box on the outside it is also easy to clean out the nesting box once in a while and add new grass clippings or hay.

Third - it looks good.  Having a few chooks running around a chook tractor is pretty for a backyard - and with a chook tractor you don't have to let your chooks out into the rest of the garden unless you want to.  That means you can grow anything else - anywhere else - without having to worrying about your chooks making a feast of your lettuce.