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WHAT IS A CHICKEN TRACTOR?

A Chicken Tractor is essentially a mobile chook pen with an open floor, allowing your chooks the ability to scratch, dig up seeds, eat weeds and leave behind their natural fertilizer. Once this has been done sufficiently in one space, you can move the pen to another patch, providing fresh grass for the chickens and leaving behind a weed-free, fertilized patch in which you can plant your veggies. The chicken tractor is also suitable for a night-time lock up pen for free range chickens.

UNIQUE PATENTED DESIGN - VERY EASY TO MOVE

McCALLUM MADE Chicken Tractors are quality pens that are unique in that they are very easy to move. Our unique patented design involves two wheels on an over-centre arrangement and the back lifts up with the aid of a small trolley jack. This allows you to raise the chicken tractor 80mm off the ground temporarily for transport purposes, keeping your chickens inside when you move it. Once transported it then lowers to sit flush with the ground. This design is unique to our pens, as other models require the owner to manually lift one end, causing possible strain to the lower back and giving potential for the chickens to escape. Our design has proven to be extremely popular with customers.

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Lift up lid, left, and Trolley Jack moving tractor Wheel and leg in raised position, lifting pen 80mm off ground.  
     

OTHER COMPONENTS
The McCALLUM MADE Chicken Tractor has a front access gate and a self-propped lift-up lid at the back. It comes supplied with one laying box (sufficient for the number of hens accommodated by the pen), and a built-in roost. All these accessories are attached to the chicken tractor which facilitates easy moving around your yard, so you do not have to move them separately. Colours include mist green, caulfield green or smooth cream. However, other colours can be ordered and custom built to suit your requirements.

MODELS
We make several size chicken tractors to suit various needs. Don't forget to "click here" with your mouse when suggested in order to view whole pages of photos and additional information.

The JUMBO MODEL is the elephant of chicken tractors, the largest size on the market! A huge 2.7 metres square, it can hold a whole flock of chickens and still has a turning circle which makes it very easy to move! We recommend using the Action Draw Bar with the Jumbo Model for ease of use. Click here for more information.

The MASTER MODEL is our king-size chicken tractor, twice the size of our standard model and yet still easily towable with our unique mobility system. It comfortably holds 8 - 10 chooks, has double the roosting space of the standard model and two laying boxes. Click here for more information.

Our STANDARD MODEL accommodates an average of 4 - 6 chooks on a permanent basis, but if you are using the pen as a lock-up you can obviously house more when letting them free-range during the day. This model suits most backyarders well and is our most popular product. Click here for more information.

The MINI MODEL suits a breeding trio or 2 - 3 chooks. This model is very suitable for the elderly who only want a couple of chooks, and is easily handled by children (under adult supervision, it is not a toy). The Mini Model is a good combination of space and height economy for very small suburban backyards. Click here for more information.

The BROODER MODEL is the ideal quiet place for your broody chook to hatch her chickens. It also suits day old chickens when fitted with a warming light, or guinea pigs. Click here for more information

All pens can be fitted with mesh on the base to make them completely enclosed for dog runs, snake, rats or mice cages. Custom made models are available on request.

YES, WE HAVE LINKS!
For web-browsing newbies, we do have links for comprehensive information and pricing of our products! Please scroll your mouse over words in bold in the side colums and in the white menu display at the top of the page (ie MASTER, STANDARD, etc) and they will underline. This means that they are a link and if you click on them with your mouse you will go to a page of further information and photos.

 

 

  QUICK INFO:

MISS US AT THE GYMPIE SHOW?
COME TO THE

TOOWOOMBA FARMFEST
June 3rd, 4th and 5th 2008


We will be displaying our Master, Standard, Mini and A-Frame Models. Come and grab a brochure
and say g'day!

   

We stock three basic colours in our range of chicken tractors. Other colours are available on request, but there may be a small delay in processing your order.

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PRODUCT INFORMATION:     SIZE AND PRICE:
JUMBO MODEL
Elephant Sized!
MASTER MODEL
King of Chicken Tractors
STANDARD MODEL
Our Most Popular
MINI MODEL
Perfect Suburban Model
BROODER MODEL
Chickens & Guinea Pigs
ACCESSORIES FOR TRACTORS
Feeders, Drinkers, Floors
ACTION
DRAW BARS
The Easy Way to Move!
RETROFIT THE MOBILITY SYSTEM
To your Own Chook Pen!
DELIVERY TO YOUR AREA
We deliver Australia-wide
WE BRING YOU CHOOKS!
Order Point of Lay Pullets
INFORMATIVE BOOKS
All You Need To Know
   

We have six sizes of chicken tractors currently available, with more coming soon. See the chart below for quick reference for sizing and prices (inc GST):

Type
Length
Width
Height

Jumbo
$1200

2.7m 2.7m 0.9m
Master
$920
2.7m 1.8m 0.9m
Standard
$595
2.7m 0.9m 0.9m
Mini
$545
1.8m 0.9m 0.75m

A-Frame
$495

1.8m 0.9m 0.75m
Brooder
$420
1.2m 0.6m 0.6m

Visit the individual web pages on each model for more information.

INFORMATIVE ARTICLES: DID YOU KNOW?
A PERMACULTURE TOOL
A Tractor in your Garden
KEEPING CHICKENS
Interesting Information
ALL ABOUT EGGS
Facts and Figures
CHICKENS AS BACKYARD PETS
Warm, funny stories
CHOOK TRIVIA
For the Trivia Buffs
ADVERTISING
Where You'll Find Us

FREE RANGE EGGS ARE CHEAPER TO GROW THAN BUY

EAT: Four young laying hens housed in our chicken tractor will eat 400grams of layer pellets per day. A 20 kilogram bag of layer pellets costs approximately $10.00 and over the course of a year they will consume 9 bags, costing $90 per year.

LAY: Each day four laying hens will lay approximately 3 eggs, totalling 89 dozen eggs per year. In a supermarket free range eggs cost approximately $5 per dozen. Therefore you have just produced $445 worth of eggs for just $90.

SAVE: Every year you keep your chickens in our chicken tractor you get to enjoy beautiful fresh eggs and a HUGE saving of $355!

For more information about chickens, see our website links:

ALL ABOUT EGGS
KEEPING CHICKENS

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  • Chooks
  • Pellets
  • Feeders
  • Waterers
  • Books to
  • Chicken Tractors

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1800 337 874

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690 Old Goomboorian Road
Gympie QLD 4570

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