IN THE BEGINNING

Our little chicken adventure began almost 6 months ago when as a family we decided to try our hand at raising chickens. After several weeks of research on the internet and contacting other backyard chicken farmers via community forums it was time to get to work. I spent several days sketching out plans and pricing out the supplies required to build the new home for our chickens. I came up with several designs (stationary, mobile, with a run, without a run, etc.). I ended up deciding to try my hand a constructing a mobile "stagecoach" chicken tractor. This would allow us to move our coop around without much effort. I went down to our local hardware stores and bought the parts needed to build our stagecoach. I got to work on a Friday afternoon and by Sunday evening I had a pretty good skeleton built for my stagecoach. After painting the bare wood and covering it with poultry wire and a plastic sheet over the coop our stagecoach was ready to hit the dusty trail.