I finished covering the top area with flashing and completed the carpet enclosure for the main sleeping roost. Got some barks of approval from Lucy and her friend Curly. They recommended I make an over sized access door and I'm glad they did. Now we have a big enough opening to stand inside the tractor once it's open.

At this pace I should have it ready for a chicken test drive sometime tomorrow afternoon.

Read other posts about chicken tractors: Chicken tractors as a permaculture tool Notes on chicken tractor construction: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Summary: Tips for building a chicken tractor for under $20 View of an older chicken tractor

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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