{"id":148,"date":"2013-09-19T00:07:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T04:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/?p=148"},"modified":"2013-10-09T12:37:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T16:37:31","slug":"homesteading-chicken-tractor-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/halfastfarm.com\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"Homesteading &#8211; Chicken Tractor #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back Melissa came to me wanting to try to raise chickens again&#8230;. ugh.<\/p>\n<p>She did say that she had seen something called a chicken tractor that would make for a better experience with the chickens (wouldn&#8217;t take much to be honest). I studied the designs she found, put our own spin on it and built our first one&#8230; we liked it so much we decided to list it on CL to see if someone else might be interested. Turns out, there was. 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She did say that she had seen something called a chicken tractor that would make for a better experience with the chickens (wouldn&#8217;t take much to be honest). 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