Victor Justin Rhodes explains how to build and manage a chicken tractor for backyard flocks. He covers coop dimensions, capacity, and two approaches: moving the tractor regularly to fresh ground or using deep bedding like wood chips if the birds stay put.
This chicken tractor is rated for— and it's a, I don't know, 40-something by 2 feet tall by 8 feet long. This coop can hold 12 chickens if you let them out during the day, hopefully in a Premier Net. I'm telling you this, if you let your chickens out, you may think it's beautiful, you may want to decorate your landscape with chickens, but the first thing they're going to do is go after your mulch and they're going to start squatting on your sidewalk. You can turn that into holy chicken squat by just putting a net around it and getting that manure where you want it. The perch becomes the prop. So I'm gonna go ever so slow because they're little chicks, they've never been moved. Good. We've moved them to fresh ground. You've got two options in management. You gotta move people, move it when necessary. It was just getting too scratched up, too manurey, at least once a week with chickens if they're in a netting system. Or you want to put them on deep bedding. Where if they're going to be in one spot, say in your yard, you want to do— have them on wood chip— on some sort of carbon like wood chips.
If I had to start my Homestead all over again, it could only pick one animal… 
