chicken tractor threat level
When I was taking a picture
last week for an update
to our chicken tractor hens I forgot to reset a bucket that was
blocking a gap where the ground was uneven and they escaped to plunder
the mulch in our garden.
We ended up chasing them back
into the coop with the main flock, but the next day they clearly wanted
back into their tractor of solitude.
Anna mentioned their laying
ratio is higher than the main flock which we give supplemental
light to.
Maybe the threat level of a
few chickens in a tractor is lower than being in a flock with the
freedom of free ranging in a forest?
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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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doc --- That's a good hypothesis. I need to leave them shut in for a day to check it out, but I was pretty sure I'd broken them of that bad habit. They may have backslid though....
Karen --- Well, part of it is that we've got a broody hen in the coop who isn't laying, which brings their productivity numbers down. If you count her out, they're giving me about 50% production, and the tractored girls more like 60%. Not too bad for either in the dead of winter.