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Improving Mobile Coop Movement for Chick Safety

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Vegan? Vegetarian? Please stop with the negative comments...and the baby chicks first day outside

What happens here

The farmer discusses a common issue with mobile chicken coops: chicks tend to gather at the back, risking injury when the coop is moved forward. To solve this, he suggests removing the feeder for a period to make the chicks hungry, then placing it back into the coop. The chicks' 'drive to eat' will draw them to the center of the coop, away from the edges, making it safe to move the coop without harming them. He demonstrates moving the coop a few feet and quickly releases a chick that got its foot caught, highlighting the need for this strategy.

Goal: To prevent chick injuries during coop movement, the feeder is temporarily removed and then replaced to draw hungry chicks away from the edges before relocation.

Tools and materials

  • Feeder
  • Mobile Chicken Coop
  • Baby Chicks

What they say

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chores so I did a little bit of thinking guys I went ahead and left the chicks outside all night long and we kept the heat lamp in there you can see it in here now basically just watched them for a day you wouldn't get much of a show if I just showed you yesterday what they look like in the evening so here's day two and we've already moved the coupe a little bit but often times when you have a mobile Coupe like this you have an issue with moving the chicks the chicks like to hang in the back of the C and as You Pull It Forward the chicks will end up eventually getting ran over and then you'll have to stop lift it up let them out so their legs will get caught in there we've got a plan to keep that from happening we'll just set our feeder in here basically we took the feeder out a little bit earlier today and now we're going to put the feeder back in there they'll go to the feeder and we're able to move it without hurting any chicks so check it out this is how it's done birdies birdie birds bird birds so this drive to eat will pull them away from the edge we take our feeder and we put it right here on the edge and we move it a few feet so if you hear that baby chick's foot just got caught in there we're going to go release him so we only had one baby chick get his foot caught but the thing we need to think about we've got to devise a better system to keep these chicks off of The Edge so what I thought about is taking an old push broom cutting the fibers off and stapling them to the edge so that the chicks get pushed or even taking some old coat hangers and cutting them up and staple them so they have some fingers to push the chicks out away from the bar as we move them so this has been kind of the trouble with the mobile coup but the mobile CP works great they put a ton of manure down so we'll have plenty of green grass here in the front yard and this is right here in front of the house there's no smell no issue like that but we'll have a ton of good manure

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