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Move the Chicken Tractor to Fresh Pasture

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How to get started raising chickens on pasture!

What happens here

To efficiently move the lightweight chicken tractor, a rope is attached to its front and hooked up to a Honda Pioneer UTV. The UTV slowly pulls the tractor across the gravel driveway and then onto a fresh section of grassy pasture. This daily movement ensures the chickens have constant access to fresh foraging grounds. More importantly, their droppings provide a continuous, natural 'top-dressing' of manure directly onto the soil, enriching it with vital organic matter and nutrients, thereby improving soil fertility and structure. The presenter notes the ease with which the tractor slides across the ground, functioning as a 'plow point' for continuous fertilization.

Goal: The chicken tractor is moved daily to a fresh section of pasture, allowing the chicks access to new grazing areas and providing a natural top-dressing of manure for soil enrichment.

Tools and materials

  • Honda Pioneer UTV
  • Mobile Chicken Tractor
  • Rope

What they say

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we're going to be doing is we're hooking up to the Honda Pioneer and we're pulling this down this is a storage area that I store a few pieces of equipment right here so we've had it stored up here the coop caught the wind and blew over the fence and landed and cracked a little something on it some of the PVC pipes we've got a little bit of a repair to do shouldn't be too bad very simple repair we're going to tow this down pull it out and the very front yard you can raise pastured meat birds on a third of an acre or less guys you can do this in the city you can do this in your yard just check with your local municipality and make sure that it's lawful I guess or by the time you get your chicks out there and your neighbor reports you and you have six weeks to get it out of the yard it'll be processing time so I say go against the grain man let's hook this thing up and we're going to pull our own down to where it goes super light guys I'll show you how this thing moves around but for long-term storage which you can't do pastured poultry in the snow in the wintertime this is what we do we take it up there and we store it so you can move this around the farm anywhere you want to move if you've got a large piece of property or a small piece of property while the chicks are really young we like to keep them near the house so we don't have such a predator problem [Music] nice that's home they will move every single day block to block to block sometimes twice a day all through the front yard right here this is how we passed your poultry we don't have to go out 50 miles from the farm it doesn't stink it feeds the yard it's awesome guys so every day when we get ready to

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