chicken tractor
chicken tractor noun: a movable enclosure in which chickens can scratch the ground for food, allowing them to be pasture-raised (benefiting from grass, insects, sunshine, and breathing space) and offering benefits to crop rotation systems (e.g., insect control, soil manuring).
Noun
chicken tractor (plural chicken tractors)
- A movable enclosure in which chickens can scratch the ground for food, allowing them to be pasture-raised (benefiting from grass, insects, sunshine, and breathing space) and offering benefits to crop rotation systems (e.g., insect control, soil manuring).
Forms of chicken tractor
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Origin of chicken tractor
So called because it serves some functions of a tractor, such as weeding and fertilizing. Attestations from the 1970s exist, according to the metadata connected with snippet views in Google Book Search results.
Questions about chicken tractor
- What does chicken tractor mean?
- Chicken tractor means a movable enclosure in which chickens can scratch the ground for food, allowing them to be pasture-raised (benefiting from grass, insects, sunshine, and breathing space) and offering benefits to crop rotation systems (e.g., insect control, soil manuring).
- What part of speech is chicken tractor?
- Chicken tractor is a noun.
- What is the plural of chicken tractor?
- The plural of chicken tractor is chicken tractors.
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