Transitioning to a chicken tractor

My third foray into chickens came almost by accident.  Mark and I had moved onto our farm and were chatting with a neighbor about our wish to become more self-sufficient.  At the time, we barely had two pennies to rub together, so when he suggested buying us twenty chickens, letting us take care of them, and sharing the eggs, we lept at the idea.

I'd done some reading since my coop days, though, so Mark built three chicken tractors to house our new hens.  The hens were Golden Comets who had just started laying, and they loved the grass and bugs they found in each day's fresh section of grass.  I've already posted at great length about why we love chicken tractors and how to build a cheap chicken tractor, so I won't go into that here.  Suffice it to say that once Mark invented the Avian Aqua Miser, we thought we'd completely solved the chicken housing problem.