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look for Chicken Tractor plans.
I think the Backyard Poultry mag has publisher some.
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Contact Broken ol Marine in off topic. His wife is a big chicken raiser.
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My dad has 2 chicken tractors. They are a lot bigger than what you want, but what he did was build a wood frame, then attach 2"x2" rafters as it were and a ridge beam such that from the end it looks like a triangle. About 4' of one end is metal roofing to give the chickens some protection from weather. This is where the roosts are. He used all thread as axles and some small wheels on on end. The other end he picks up with a tractor and moves them around that way.
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Some ideas here:
Link Not saying to buy from them; they just have some good pics of different ideas.
We'll be getting chickens this season. We were just out looking at sheds which can be modified for our use. Not looking for a chicken tractor. Our setup may be a modified coop/occasional free-range thing. We'll likely pick up a few guinea fowl; we have been overrun with hoppers and crickets our first two seasons in this place.
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Build it on a trailer.
For protection, a well fenced in area is much more secure for all except egg loving snakes at which a few golf balls can cure.
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a friend of mine uses a few runs of fishing line over his garden to keep out birds. He swears it works.
Perhaps that would work for overhead protection of a fenced in chicken area from hawks and such...
or maybe hawks would be more willing to risk crossing the line for meat than regular birds are to get corn.
Ray