Chicken tractor!

Its been a busy couple of weeks, so here's the first of a couple of posts to get caught up. 

Our friend, Jeff, has helped us make major progress on the chicken tractor.  Last weekend, we went from the frame in the last post to an enclosed top coop space as seen below:

You may notice that the coop part has a skylight.  We thought it would help the chickens be more in tune with natural light cycles since their laying is determined by how long the days are.  We also built nest boxes for the inside.  Both end walls are doors - one that we will use to get to the next boxes and one that we will use to clean out the coop.

Our guest chickens in the coop! 

 

This is where we left last week.

 

This weekend we added the top cap to shed water from the peak and vent air through the coop.  Then we put a perch on the inside and added a handle to help move it around.  Lastly, we installed a door frame on the bottom so that we can get into the lower run segment. 

Now we need to paint the frame, install the back wheels and put the chicken wire around the bottom.  Then we'll have a chicken house for our soon to be chickens!

The coop now.  :D