The new chicken tractor only got an hour of my attention today, but it was a good hour.

Green plastic netting is my new favorite material for covering these things. It's easier to cut and manage than traditional poultry wire and I think it looks better. Small dry wall screws seem to be the perfect choice for attaching the larger corner sections of the netting to a wooden surface.

It's always a good feeling to see a rough design in my imagination go from mental chalkboard to reality. I'm tossing around an idea of maybe building another tractor after this one and offering it for sale on Craig's list complete with hens. Of course that would depend on how broody our new hens will be once we get a rooster. The first generation of Golden Comet girls just refused to go down that road. Maybe it was something last year's rooster said or did?