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This is my chicken tractor experience. Will you be letting them out of it regularly? If so keep them in there and feeling safe for a few weeks. That way they come back to it when they get out. Make it Tall enough to walk in is a bonus. How do you plan to move it? Try to design so you don't have to pick up super high or some May try to dart out when moving. Try to have the feed and water mounted to the house so it moves with it. I had a gutter on my roof that fed into the watering bucket that reduced the amount I needed to fill it. I wish I would have known about copper pipes in water to prevent algae when I had mine. Ensure the eggs can be reached from outside and ideally eggs can be retrieved without opening up an escape hatch for the geese. Ensure the poop can be cleaned out easily if there are any catch spots. Determine the unevenness of your ground and pick the tires that work best for it. Air filled tires go flat. Free push mowers generally have acceptable tires. The store bought ones are junk. Having a live trap built into the cage like it is a way in ingave never done but I would do that next time. Possums, racoons, and others are always sniffing around for the feed or birds.

Wow, awesome tips and great coop! I have experience with running modular 60-hen chicken coops: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp22rfmsktmgpk2rtan7zwu00zuzax5maq5dnsu5g3xxvqr2u3pd7qyt8wumn8ghj7mnfv4kzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qpqnn3m9swpncx7ywlf32d5vv6xuw59p2r240vfqea6z76wlqu594ws45mx8m And you're absolutely right about inflatable tires to be a bad idea at a scale like that. I'm looking into what would need to be different (besides not having those tires), now that we are likely switching to geese for our mobile pasture set up (behind sheep).

But I literally find :zeroPercent: benchmarks of anyone doing mobile, holistically planned geese, haha 😉

Those feeders could get mounted to the tractor so it's one less thing to move.

Awesome design :fire: Yeah, indeed! I'm considering the floor-based. rolling/sliding greenhouse type coop, instead of the suspended grid Perkins-style coop. Seems more appropriate for geese. Also applies to your comment btw: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzp22rfmsktmgpk2rtan7zwu00zuzax5maq5dnsu5g3xxvqr2u3pd7qyt8wumn8ghj7mnfv4kzumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qpqz6akgv0q3t6dvnpetdccxcdpsjv5udmxtufwd2tmwqk0lxep5adq56r7r8

Yeah, I tried that at first. But I needed to put quite some feed in there (for weekends away etc...) and it makes the whole thing to cumbersome to move by hand. We want to go for geese now to start stepping away from having to deal with feed like that.

Could you make the feeders their own little "trailer"so it follows the big one but doesn't add weight to the existing structure?

I heard of a chickshaw, similar to a wheelbarrow

Anyways use a nostr goose door