>pedal tractor=pedals power the tractor >gas tractor= gas powers the tractor >diesel tractor=diesel powers the tractor
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I really haven't but like are the chickens pushing it themselves or do you constantly have to move it?
i've seen chickens before and i would assume they couldn't move this by themselves. how? with their heads? they would snap their necks.
i think op is worst case if they dont move it you just have to move it yourself.
or put a spring on one end attached to a tree and a bucket of water attached to the other end with a hole in it so the water leaks out and the spring slowly draws it forward.
>tracteur, tractrice >(latintractum,detrahere,tirer) > >adjectif >Quitracte, qui est capable de tracter. > >nom masculin >Véhicule motorisé destiné à la traction de véhicules sans moteur.
I don't get how chickens in a cage are towing/pulling anything
You have to move it, not the chickens. The whole point is the chickens will graze, fertilize and then you move it. You can leave their shit there on the ground or you can collect it and use it to create fertilizer by mixing with straw or wtv.
Build box, put chickens in box, move around once in a while. If you want to get really creative, put some solar powered drive motor that will very slowly move the box. Like a foot or two an hour slow. You could use a cable system to pull along the box instead of a drive motor. Same idea, just different drive method. Just keep it slow and make sure it will roll nicely and not allow gaps under the side of the structure and the ground as the chickens will get out if they can.
Same, I just have a condo which sucks, aside from our cool wood shop. Maybe I can work remotely someday and sell it and buy a nice piece of land somewhere cheap.
Ha! I'm a NEET and I'm not building a chicken tractor at all! I just wanted someone to spoonfeed me on how they worked. I'm a NEET fancy boy who could never homestead.
I put a 3 point hitch on my chicken tractor. It takes about 30 chickens to make 1HP, so with ~250 chickens in my chicken tractor I should be able to pull a 3 bottom plow.
That is not a real wiener. OP's surgical mistake does not a rooster make.
Not really worth the hassle, I just let my chickens roam free. Only plus is to keep the birds out of your garden beds and fricking up your seedlings.
Meatbirds. They grow at a grossly frankenstein rate. They also would sit around otherwise - they do not forage on their own. The tractor is designed for those issues.
Normal chickens can wander around the grass, fly away when there are predators, the roosters defend the flock, etc. Meatbirds are 2 months, then harvested. A normal bird takes 6 months to start laying eggs and be full-sized. When they put all the genetic abnormalities into a meatbird: it can't walk, it doesn't feather in, it's stupid, it has zero defences if a predator...
On top of that, they are white, or cream. Black and chickens with black in them, confuse predators.
Meatbirds, poor things, need the safety of a cage. Need the motivation to move. Plus, you can only get them from a hatchery. They are the result of several crosses, and end up being infertile themselves. Go with a heritage breed: more fun, tougher bird, better coloring, can brood it's own young.
my grandad built one of these but he was too impatient with moving it so he'd just put a chain on it attached to his ATV and drag it around at like 10+ mph and ripped the legs off of half of his chickens
It's incredibly obvious how it works if you've ever seen a single chicken before.
I really haven't but like are the chickens pushing it themselves or do you constantly have to move it?
>I really haven't
then the answer doesn't matter
>are the chickens pushing it themselves
no theyre levitating it
>are the chickens pushing it themselves
>pedal tractor=pedals power the tractor
>gas tractor= gas powers the tractor
>diesel tractor=diesel powers the tractor
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>chicken tractor=OMG YOU FRICKING REATRARDED SHIT HOW THE FUQQQQQ WOULD KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKENS POWER A FLIMSY CAGE ON WHEELS ARE YOU SERIOUS KYS LOLOLLOLOLOLLOLLOOLOOLL
yes
LMFAO
>RIDE YOU FRICKING SHITS
i've seen chickens before and i would assume they couldn't move this by themselves. how? with their heads? they would snap their necks.
i think op is worst case if they dont move it you just have to move it yourself.
or put a spring on one end attached to a tree and a bucket of water attached to the other end with a hole in it so the water leaks out and the spring slowly draws it forward.
Yeah, good point, I am a dumbass. I just thought their bodies would bump up against it searching for fresh grass
>i think op is worst case if they dont move it you just have to move it yourself.
kekola
I have one for my grandkids
I hang half of it over the pond for drinkin and such
I don't get where the "tractor" part comes in? It doesn't move?
The chickens power it, once they finish eat grass in one area, they push it to another. sort of like a roomba for your yard.
try gerbil bottles
can you please look up the word tractor in either a physical or online dictionary of your choice
>tracteur, tractrice
>(latintractum,detrahere,tirer)
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>adjectif
>Quitracte, qui est capable de tracter.
>
>nom masculin
>Véhicule motorisé destiné à la traction de véhicules sans moteur.
I don't get how chickens in a cage are towing/pulling anything
>grandkids
>literal grandfathers post on PrepHole
Lol, the absolute state of post-election PrepHole
if an oldgay was college aged when they started using PrepHole in the early days, they could easily be a grandparent by now. Get over yourself, kid.
I'm 32, pops!
This doesn't math out.
A 2004 20 year old is 40 now, if you and your son have kids at 19 then you're a grandfather
can confirm, as a 2004 20yo I am now 40
wtf is PrepHole?
75 year old here.
youngest recorded grandmother was 17
You have to move it, not the chickens. The whole point is the chickens will graze, fertilize and then you move it. You can leave their shit there on the ground or you can collect it and use it to create fertilizer by mixing with straw or wtv.
Sad is admitting youre 30 ish setting doing this
English Sar
Build box, put chickens in box, move around once in a while. If you want to get really creative, put some solar powered drive motor that will very slowly move the box. Like a foot or two an hour slow. You could use a cable system to pull along the box instead of a drive motor. Same idea, just different drive method. Just keep it slow and make sure it will roll nicely and not allow gaps under the side of the structure and the ground as the chickens will get out if they can.
I wish I had a backyard, I'd fill it with chickens, guinea pigs, plants, all manner of life. I hope I can one day afford a house and land.
Are you a millennial? We'll be waiting till the next recession, I think.
Hope is the last vestige of the desperate, or something like that.
Get on helpx or another service, find a host, go learn lifeskills. This works better when you don't have a bunch of stuff, and can travel light.
I would offer to host, but we don't have housing, here -right now.
Same, I just have a condo which sucks, aside from our cool wood shop. Maybe I can work remotely someday and sell it and buy a nice piece of land somewhere cheap.
Ha! I'm a NEET and I'm not building a chicken tractor at all! I just wanted someone to spoonfeed me on how they worked. I'm a NEET fancy boy who could never homestead.
The chickens stand between those slats and the rooster stands at the back, the rooster crows at the chickens and they move forward in unison
I put a 3 point hitch on my chicken tractor. It takes about 30 chickens to make 1HP, so with ~250 chickens in my chicken tractor I should be able to pull a 3 bottom plow.
how many roosters are you using to prompt them? what is your RPH rate?
2500 does seem a little high
Just one giant wiener at the steering wheel.
nice wiener
That is not a real wiener. OP's surgical mistake does not a rooster make.
Meatbirds. They grow at a grossly frankenstein rate. They also would sit around otherwise - they do not forage on their own. The tractor is designed for those issues.
Normal chickens can wander around the grass, fly away when there are predators, the roosters defend the flock, etc. Meatbirds are 2 months, then harvested. A normal bird takes 6 months to start laying eggs and be full-sized. When they put all the genetic abnormalities into a meatbird: it can't walk, it doesn't feather in, it's stupid, it has zero defences if a predator...
On top of that, they are white, or cream. Black and chickens with black in them, confuse predators.
Meatbirds, poor things, need the safety of a cage. Need the motivation to move. Plus, you can only get them from a hatchery. They are the result of several crosses, and end up being infertile themselves. Go with a heritage breed: more fun, tougher bird, better coloring, can brood it's own young.
uhm, sweaty, slavery was abolished long time ago
>Has never heard of Chanticleer Hegemony
stop making things up anon
Ashens. Look it up anon.
Not really worth the hassle, I just let my chickens roam free. Only plus is to keep the birds out of your garden beds and fricking up your seedlings.
and to keep predator's away.
chickens wander randomly resulting in a net force of zero
As best I recall, Einstein first developed his theory of Brownian motion while feeding the hens at his uncle's farm.
Never change PrepHole
my grandad built one of these but he was too impatient with moving it so he'd just put a chain on it attached to his ATV and drag it around at like 10+ mph and ripped the legs off of half of his chickens
it's a movable chicken enclosure
you move it and the chickens eat bugs and forage from that grass/land below and their poop fertilizes the ground in turn
Why not just install a proper fence around your garden and let the chickens free roam?
They are nice animals
Because a fence will always have a hole in it. If not now, then eventually. If not from natural wear, some predator will make one.
Because sometimes you want to be over here and the chickens to be over there. And other times you want to over there and the chickens to be over here.
How many chicken power is a horsepower
It doesn't matter how many chickenpower it is, what's important is the torque