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Eliot Mason wrote:The plans I found are roughly 12'x8', so 96 sq ft with 80-100 birds. Which we can roughly say is 1 sq/ft per. So 3.2 sq/ft per will be luxurious.
But Jordan has an excellent point... its not just movement space but also forage. So there is also a question here about how often you want to move the tractor - and that depends on the quality of your pasture.
Dustin Talley wrote:
Eliot Mason wrote:The plans I found are roughly 12'x8', so 96 sq ft with 80-100 birds. Which we can roughly say is 1 sq/ft per. So 3.2 sq/ft per will be luxurious.
But Jordan has an excellent point... its not just movement space but also forage. So there is also a question here about how often you want to move the tractor - and that depends on the quality of your pasture.
Well mine is a backyard in my 1/3 acre urban lot but I have enough grass to move them every day and have about a 2 week period between getting the same area again.
Bobby Fallon wrote:Jordan Barton, do you have nesting boxes in your mobile chicken tractor?
If so does it make the tractor much harder to move?
Any challenges with your design you would do better if you did it over?
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