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The way they “bok” behind my back 🤣

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🐓 Chicken Tractor Benefits: Better for the Flock, Better for the Pasture 🌱

One of the smartest homestead projects you can build is a chicken tractor — a mobile chicken coop designed to give your birds fresh ground every day while improving your land at the same time.

👉 Here’s why homesteaders, backyard chicken keepers, and ranchers alike swear by it:


✅ Benefits for Chickens

Fresh Forage Daily – Chickens rotate onto new grass, bugs, and seeds, which improves their natural diet and egg quality.

Cleaner Environment – Moving the coop reduces manure buildup, lowers parasite risk, and keeps odors down.

Predator Protection – A properly built mobile chicken tractor is lightweight but sturdy, giving your flock safety on open pasture.


✅ Benefits for the Pasture

Natural Fertilization – Chicken manure is rich in nitrogen, which naturally fertilizes the soil as the tractor moves across the pasture.

No Overgrazing – Rotating the flock prevents chickens from destroying one patch of grass, giving plants recovery time and keeping pastures lush.

Soil Aeration – Chickens scratch the ground, helping with seed-to-soil contact and natural soil turnover.

📌 Why Use a Chicken Tractor?

It saves money on feed by letting chickens forage.

It creates healthier, more productive pastures.

It improves flock health through mobility and fresh ground rotation.

Out here at Wilson Brothers Ranch in Montana, it’s the simple systems that make the biggest difference. A chicken tractor build is one of those projects that pays off for both the land and the birds.

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🐓🚜 Lessons from Building Our Chicken Tractor 🚜🐓

Every ranch project teaches us something new. Working on this mobile chicken tractor, here’s what we’ve learned so far:

✔️ Building on a trailer base saves time and makes it much easier to move around the pasture.
✔️ Ventilation is just as important as fencing — without good airflow, the coop can get hot fast.
✔️ Planning size early matters — giving the flock more room from the start means less adjusting later.

These little details make a big difference, not just for the chickens but for keeping the build practical for daily ranch work.

👉 What’s one thing you’ve learned from your own DIY projects that you wish you knew sooner? Drop it in the comments — your advice could help someone else avoid the same mistakes.

🔗 Catch the full build here ➡️ https://youtu.be/IObtxJVLTBc?si=RCSoU...

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When Mia (Blue Heeler) and Tia (Labrador) first met. LOL

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