Chicken tractors

[Shimon]

One of our hens (a Golden Sex-Links) has developed quite an affinity for my tractor. She's always perched on it or sitting in the seat. She lays her eggs on the seat...which was fine with me...except that they usually rolled off and broke on the floorboards. She refuses to lay her eggs anywhere else, so I attached a small cardboard box (filled with wood shavings) to the seat with the seat belt and now she lays them in the box, on the tractor seat.

Anytime I use the tractor and then get off for a moment, she will fly onto the tractor as if to claim it as it her own and when I pick her up to get here off the tractor, she squawks bloody murder which, of course, brings Mr. Rooster who tries to disembowel me so then I need to soak him down with the hose. It's getting to be quite an ordeal if I want to use my tractor anymore. I think the rooster is getting a little more wary of me and the hose, which is good.

I did build a chicken tractor (portable chicken coop) this past winter for the latest batch of chickens and they do use it, but I think I should have painted it Kubota Orange so they could have their Kubota and could have mine. Oh well.

 

[blueriver]

Sounds like you need another tractor for yourself !!!

 

[CurlyDave]

Nah! You need to have a chicken dinner.

 

[blueriver]

He can move into a cab model and just think how many nesting boxes can be hung all over that tractor and FEL ...

 

[Shimon]

Sounds like you need another tractor for yourself !!!

I like the way you think....

 

[Shimon]

Nah! You need to have a chicken dinner.

I would but these chickens are our egg producers. We already slaughtered the meat producers. All that is left of them is shown in the photo below.

 

[milkman]

I would but these chickens are our egg producers. We already slaughtered the meat producers. All that is left of them is shown in the photo below.

My grandma used to flour and fry those things, you could watch the toes curl up in the frying pan.

 

[Shimon]

My grandma used to flour and fry those things, you could watch the toes curl up in the frying pan.

Hmm. Never heard of that. What do they taste like? Actually, I think I know what the answer is: chicken (doesn't everything taste like chicken?). A friend was going to dry the feet and make a mobile out them but he never got around to it so they were thrown out.

 

[magicheater]

Really like the design!:thumbsup: Do you lift it with the 3PT hitch?

 

[Shimon]

Really like the design!:thumbsup: Do you lift it with the 3PT hitch?

I usually use a trailer dolly.