Turn Old Pallets Into A Chicken Tractor!

Step 7 Test Chicken Acceptance!

You're now ready to bring in the flock! You or your beautiful assistant can herd, throw, or otherwise prod your friendly poultry into their new home. If they're extra lucky, you'll even provide food, water, and a return to the coop at the end of the day.

Some enhancements you may want to make:
-Add wheels to one end to make the tractor easier for one person to move.
-Offer your neighbors a chicken-based lawn maintenance service.
-Create a 'chicken tractor roomba,' using solar power to move the chicken tractor around your yard. Of course, you'd have to name this Robot Chicken:)

Congratulations on your new superhip recycled chicken tractor, and be sure to send me a picture when you're done!

Comments

[gcoleman]

Wonderful idea and great use of discarded materials, but using a table saw to cut pallets is wrong on so many levels! As an avid woodworker, I can't imagine a more dangerous stunt - please don't ANYONE (professional or not) try this at home! Not only do you risk permanent physical damage up to and including death - you also risk damaging a multi-hundred dollar machine building a $20 tractor. Go for the handsaw or sawz-all. They work great and are much safer! The two prime directives in using a table saw are BE SAFE and NEVER cut anything that might have metal buried in it (and all pallets do!). My philosophy is that DIY is great for everything except suicide! :) Thanks for the idea, though, my son and I are talking about options for a chicken tractor - this one is definitely in the running! Gary

[Nettiemac]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for a wonderful instructable on how to do this. I have some chickens, and for now I am keeping them in my glass house (when they are not free ranging during the day), but come summer that won't do. Now to figure out how to build a coop for them!

[maven]

I'd use a skill saw rather than a table saw...

[beegirl]

This is going to be a wonderful addition to the pallet coop I'm building! Thanks!