Sorry for the posting delay, but I've spent quite a bit of time this week building the girls' new home, a chicken tractor (or chicken ark). It's based on the Catawba Converticoop, which is a very nice chicken tractor. However, I needed more space, so I changed the dimensions and made it 5 feet wide instead of 4, which means that most other dimensions have to be scaled and calculated. The author made it easy for non-builders, but for folks like myself with woodworking and homebuilding skills, it's been very hard to follow his instructions (parallelograms, trapezoids, etc).... yikes!
The chicks are getting bigger and faster by the day! The hardest part about letting them out to play is catching them to put back inside. Hopefully by this weekend the tractor will be finished and I'll have them outside permanently. Then I get to clean the inside of my house!
The tractor in progress. This thing is heavy - I'm engineering a set of wheels to go on the end so I can roll it around the yard.
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