Coop vs tractor

[Rob Tucker]

Tractors come in all shapes and sizes. Mine is small enough to carry around but is only useful for raising chicks or constraining an injured hen. I built a coop/yard with an off the ground roost and nesting boxes and kept the chickens locked in the coop/yard for a few weeks to get them into the system of laying in the boxes. After that, full grown, I let them roam. I just used the small tractor for raising young ones.