Question: What's a HalfTrac?

Answer: A Happy Chicken Tractor HalfTrac Easy Wider Garden Weeder is half as wide as our basic model and is equipped with a tunnel in the middle so it can either straddle rows of vegetables or roll between them. If you like the idea of having the chickens weed the garden, give us a call. We can build one just for your garden.

Question: How many chickens can fit in a Chicken Tractory?

Answer: Doesn't that depend on the size of your chickens?

QUESTION: Can I add a Roost or a perch?

Answer: Sure. Cut a 2 x 2 five feet long and put a hook on each end to hang on our bottom side rail or in the netting. Hook the board across the Chicken Tractor. That should do it.  The chickens will be happy if they can get a little way off the ground when they want to do so.

A BETTER WAY TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM

The Happy Chicken Tractory = a Better Solution.

Question: Build it or buy it?

Answer:  Many people prefer to build their own chicken tractor solution and that's just fine with us, but when we thought about it, the idea that, "I can build one of these for $100" just doesn't hold up. Think about it. Building a good sized structure takes time. If you add time to the cost of materials, and the gasoline to go get them, your costs skyrocket. And there is convenience. Will what you build look sharp, be light enough to move easily and assemble in minutes? We think not. Will it come apart easily later on? Most likely not. We agree that anyone with  hammer and nails can build a chicken tractor. We also know from experience that The Happy Chicken Tractor TM is a good value when you really think the problem all the way through.
 

USED BUILDING MATERIALS = Bad Ugly Coop.

These leghorns deserve a better home

Question: When is Frank Perdue's birthday?

Answer: Frank Perdue (May 9, 1920 – March 31, 2005)

QUESTION: Why don't you provide a door? (Two Answers)

Old Answer: You can make your own with a pair of scissors. Our netting doesn't ravel. Just cut a straight slit in one of the end netting panels. Secure it with a piece of wire or a dowel woven through the two sides. The nesting box will serve as a barrier to entry through the slit but you'll be able to get at the eggs.

Mr. Grumpy, the Boss Birdman, said we need to come up with a better answer about the door thing, so here it is.

Better Answer: OK, we added a door.  Don't ask how we're going to fit a big door into an eight-inch shipping tube. The engineering lab (the men in the white coats) figured that out already, all by themselves.  We'll include a door panel, and you won't have to go dig a screwdriver out of the socks drawer or wherever you keep them because someone already invented the cable tie. You will have to cut the door opening and hang the damn door yourself. So. No more door questions, OK? None. Go ask somebody else. That's all. Over and out. Finito already with the door thing, OK? Kaputski.

QUESTION: What are the two big nails for?

Answer: Some days, the wind blows. Use the spikes like tent stakes by putting them into the holes provided in the bottom rails to hold the Chicken Tractory in a gale. Or just use them for knitting needles.

Answer: We had a four place nest box built and set in place on the end rail. We measured it out to be tall enough to touch the rafters, drilled two holes and tied it on with cable ties. Works just fine.

Mods we haven't tried yet:

1. Attach a 10-inch board along the ends and sides to create a rigid wall.

2. Cut two 3-foot panels of metal roofing. Hinge them together with cable ties to form a half roof.

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QUESTION: Why do roosters crow?

Answer: We don't have even the foggiest idea; but we found this comment from George on Chickens-101 at Yahoo -- "Crowing Roosters: Most roos start to practice crowing between 10 and 12 weeks and once they start, nothing is going to stop them." Thanks, George. We'll surely tell the neighbors.

QUESTION: Can I add water and a feeder?

Answer: Of course. You can hang containers of each from our ridgepole and wheel the whole batch around the yard. Or you can use our Model T watering trough. It's really pretty neat and only costs $24.95