Chicken Tractor for Sale, Only $300!

Benefits:

• Meets Durango city ordinance
• Made from 80% reclaimed/reused supplies
• 3 locking doors
• Easy to access eggs & hens
• Wood nesting & roosting floor
• Nesting divider & Roosts removable for easy cleaning
• Low center of gravity- not easily knocked over
• 2 people can move- handles
• 2 removable roof coverings for grazing area
• Transportable in a pick up truck

Growing potatoes in a reused container

• I had this plastic bin that has a crack in the bottom so I decided to try to grow my own potatoes.  
• We drilled holes in the bottom and I filled it with a soil made up of potting soil, vermiculite, sand & organic compost I had left over from another project. 
• I then mixed it with straw
• I had some purple, red & white potatoes I let sit in a dark, cool closet that sprouted. 
• I sliced them up & buried them in the soil right beneath the top, then covered them with straw.

Keeping my fingers crossed!

Durango CO City Ordinance on Chicken Tractor structures

ORDINANCE NO. 0-2009-23

(4) Chicken hens kept within the City must be provided with a covered enclosure. It is required that such enclosures be predator-resistant, properly ventilated, easily accessed for cleaning and maintenance, and provide not less than 2 square feet per chicken to be kept in such enclosure.

(5) During daylight hours, chicken hens must be provided access to the sun, the covered enclosure, and also have access to an outside enclosure that is adequately fenced to prevent the escape of the chickens and to provide protection from predators.

(6) The chickens must be placed in the covered enclosure between the hours of dusk and dawn to provide protection from predators.

(7) Neither the covered enclosure nor the outside enclosure may be located less than 15 feet from an abutting property line or 30 feet from an inhabited dwelling unit on abutting property, whichever is greater. Variances from these distance requirements shall require written consent from the owner(s) of affected abutting properties.

(9) The chicken hens must be sheltered or confined in such fashion as to prevent them from coming into contact with wild ducks or geese, or their excrement.