I once came across (ont' web) a US broiler chicken farmer who had a large netted frame with wheels at one end: he would pick up the other end just enough to move the frame regularly while hustling the in-mates as it moved along.
Not sure that would work with much smaller creatures unless one has some sort of loose netting closing off the gap created at the lift-end and along the sides.
thinking a very large rabbit and guinea pig tractor combined. I read you can even include chickens all three get on well with each other as long as you don’t have a cockerel in with them.
I’m thinking of quite an ambitious project of making a rather large 60x30 foot run with good hutches and walk in accommodation one end. It would house meat rabbits, guinea pigs and laying chickens.
It would only just be movable due to the size but only need moving every week or so. I’m hoping to move by a very low geared winch.
Looking for rainwater harvesting and a float valve and have a few watering systems for redundancy so they always have plenty to drink.
I’m looking for some ideas how it could cope with a little uneven ground maybe chains and loose netting and hope to drag it over lots of blackberry bushes
Even considering have a goat pen and a goat chained to the outside of it to clear a lot of the blackberry brambles before I drag the tractor over it and constantly move it to new areas
Is it really difficult to stop foxes digging under and getting in? What are the best anti fox measures?
I also wondered about having fox traps all around it even included on the outside of the run using my rabbits and guinea pigs as bait👍