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Move the Chicken Tractor

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The Ultimate Chicken Tractor! Moving our chickens on to pasture today!

What happens here

The presenter attaches a rope from the chicken tractor to the hitch of a yellow side-by-side utility vehicle. He then drives the vehicle, pulling the chicken tractor across the grassy field. This highlights the tractor's portability, allowing for daily relocation to new patches of grass for the chicks.

Goal: The chicken tractor is moved using a side-by-side utility vehicle, demonstrating its ease of portability across the field to fresh grazing areas.

Tools and materials

  • Rope
  • Side-by-side Utility Vehicle (e.g
  • Can-Am Defender)

What they say

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waiting free to word freedom [Music] that's my freedom I tune as well chicken key so once again guys if this is your first time to the Stoney Ridge farm channel welcome this is an awesome place to be we learn a whole lot of stuff we have a little bit of fun with equipment and tractors and all kinds of things we homestead we farm we tour farms and we have a good time what we're gonna do right now is I'm going to grab this coop and you're going to see just how lightweight it is this is PVC drain pipe with tin on it custom ordered tin if you look around your local area you'll find out that you can custom order your metal your sheet metal or your tin to size so however you want to make it we're going to talk about this coop and we're also going to talk about version 3.0 version 3.0 is going to be awesome it's going to be a little bit more insulated to keep the heat down on the birds in the middle of the summer so let's grab it I'll show you how light it is and the easiest way to haul this long distances is not dragging it we'll just throw it over the ball on the side by side here and we'll pull it right on down in front of the house what we have here is just a rope I'm a big fella my wife can move this she's about five foot two and weighs about 105 pounds and she can move it this is a handle that's designed for pulling this mobile coop pretty cool huh pretty handy so we'll hook up the side-by-side this is our cub cadet side-by-side we're gonna hook up to it pull it down here in the yard it's just as simple to tow and move we'll pull this guy up just a little bit lay this right over top of the hitch right here the ball and we'll pull it across the farm alright guys what we're doing here is just slowly dragging this we're about three miles an hour I'm breaking any speed records really cool setup [Music] just trying to pull this to a safe place where we can start moving our birds and we'll move our birds either every day or every other day here on the farm until they're ready to go in chicken mobile and you'll see that being built in the future video also we're gonna get these guys out here I have them fairly close to my house because we don't have any livestock Guardian dogs yet once we get livestock Guardian dogs we'll be able to move these guys way across the pasture over there and move them in behind the cows so this right here is an awesome way for you to fertilize your yard without having to put any chemicals on your yard so in other words all we do is put…

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