Sustainable hen tractor prototype clears orchard debris, produces eggs on Linden farm

Nearly 145 hens in the middle of a walnut orchard is not something you see every day, but the brood of hardworking ladies has a big job at Chinchiolo Farming in Linden.

“We’ve developed a chicken tractor,” Walnut Farmer James Chinchiolo explained. “We’ve placed it in our walnut orchard to create a cycling. We’re able to utilize some of the material on the ground for the chickens to forage through.”

This portable hen cage is a prototype…

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