I plan to get an couple new chicks in the fall and this will be their home for a bit. I put two nest boxes in the chicken tractor in case I want to let some of the already laying hens scratch around in one of these from time to time. I was looking into getting meat birds as well, however according to my calculations bird+feed will be somewhere around $8.50 per 5 lb bird... It doesn't seem to be worth the trouble.
I also put in two Honey Mesquites (a native tree that drops pods I'll use to make flour) which you can see, still in pots, in the foreground of the second picture here. They were very cheap, $15 each and already taller than me.



I need to add a gate latch to one of the doors and a perch then it will be totally done. I will photograph it when I get it set up in place with the tractor mounted on one of the beds. Another advantage to this is that it should be totally sparrow proof. Thanks to me, Central Phoenix should have the most organic wild birds of any major metropolitan area.
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