Chicken tractors

[Shimon]

One of our hens (a Golden ***-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.

 

[milkman]

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.

Sure wasn't much meat on them, just the toes and the little foot pad, of course there was the lard and flour that added flavor. My other grandma skinned and fried the head just to crack it open and get the brain.

 

[Shimon]

there was the lard and flour that added flavor

I think if you fry anything it will taste good.

 

[magicheater]

I usually use a trailer dolly.

Congrats, you just made Platinum!! I just went back and checked and your posts seem to have been at 500 for most of this thread.?

 

[Shimon]

I just went back and checked and your posts seem to have been at 500 for most of this thread.?

I think the # of posts shown under your name is always updated to reflect the current total...even on older posts. I do tend to get stuck sometimes...but I don't think this is one of those times.

 

[CurlyDave]

I usually use a trailer dolly.

I have had more than my share of bad luck with that exact Northern Tool trailer dolly. Used it to move a tool trailer, maybe 3000 lb trailer & load, 300-400 lb tongue load. Dolly bent the wheels on uneven ground. Sent it back.

Northern sent another one, moved the same trailer, and bent the wheels again.

Not I swing the backhoe to one side & use it to lift & place the trailer tongue.

 

[easygo]

That is a very nice chicken tractor you built. I have seen simple, cage designs in use before but never one with a little hen house built right in there. What are the dimensions and how many birds do you put in there?

 

[savageactor7]

LOL... one of the prettiest chickens I ever saw.

 

[Dr. Bob]

Man, that is one nice movable coop. How long did it take you to make that?

By the way, just yesterday I saw chicken feet for sale in the grocery!

 

[radioman]

Nice chick on your kubota!

What I really like is your chicken coop. That looks like something I would like to build. Did you like the way it turned out? any changes you might want to do?

 

[Shimon]

I have had more than my share of bad luck with that exact Northern Tool trailer dolly. Used it to move a tool trailer, maybe 3000 lb trailer & load, 300-400 lb tongue load. Dolly bent the wheels on uneven ground. Sent it back.

Northern sent another one, moved the same trailer, and bent the wheels again.

Not I swing the backhoe to one side & use it to lift & place the trailer tongue.

They are junk but it works for this purpose. One of my wheels came with the axle holes off-center from the wheel so the wheel wobbles. Pure junk. But that's what you get for $50. If mine breaks, I'll just patch it with upgrades to better wheels, bearings and axles. The frame seems strong enough.