r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/The_Love-Tap • 6d ago

Video This solar powered chicken coop that moves every day to a new location

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u/Spacemonk587 6d ago

That‘s backwards. Mobile chicken coops have been a thing for a very long time.

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u/rearwindowpup 6d ago

Came to comment this, chicken tractors are extremely common in smaller setups, much moreso than large industrial scale ones like this.

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u/AgreeAndSubmit 6d ago

Agreed. That is one very large, very expensive chicken tractor. 

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u/Spacemonk587 6d ago

I would even expect that this has been done for thousands of years.

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u/rearwindowpup 6d ago

Right, its a logical end result.

Hey, look at this box I made to keep my chickens safe!!

Next day

Dang, all the grass under it is trashed, let me pull the box onto some fresh grass.

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u/Acrobatic_Wrap_9971 6d ago

Yes but they have never been narrated by shitty AI voices till now

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u/SartenSinAceite 6d ago

Seems like the innovation is the size of it? I can imagine this being stupidly expensive to run without proper tech

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u/BallsOutKrunked 6d ago

It only works well on flat, grassy areas. If you have bushes, rocks, or angles: no dice. We live in the western mountains where there isn't a 10' line you can draw that doesn't have some obstacle or five in the way.

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u/Old_drums 6d ago

We were doing it 30 years ago. Smaller coup, just two long handles for two people to pick it up and move it along a bit. Long established practice even then.

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u/r0thar 6d ago

Somebody get that 'small farmer coop' tricycle onto r/xbiking stat!

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u/marathonquestionredd 6d ago

god i hated doing this as a kid. so hard to get those dumb birds to FUCKING MOVE. theyd rather get thier legs broken

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u/DrThunderbolt 6d ago

 Smaller coup

So if it had four doors it would be a sedan?

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u/crabbydotca 6d ago

Chicken tractor! I’ve also seen rabbit tractors and even a very tiny Guinea pig tractor hehe

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u/zhulinxian 6d ago

Exactly. Small farmers invented this method.

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u/badger2000 6d ago

I saw this and thought "this is what happens when Tim 'the tool man' Taylor builds a chicken tractor." More power!!!!

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u/IDontSellMolly 6d ago

The fact that this is a hugely upvoted thing is crazy. So where do you get the software and how much a month/year are you willing to pay to keep your mobile chicken coop moving? Idk, this is cringe.

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u/skivian 5d ago

how does something this large prevent something bad happening to a chicken that isn't moving fast enough?

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u/pants_mcgee 5d ago

There’s a lot of chickens.

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u/Daxtatter 5d ago

I sell screws to a company in Pennsylvania that makes them.

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u/cardinal29 5d ago

I first heard about rotating chickens to different pens for fresh bugs and clover in The Egg & I, a memoir about life on a poultry farm in the 1920s.

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u/JR_LikeOnTheTVshow 5d ago

It's true. Joan of Cluck led the first coop d'état in the 1400's.

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u/mommiesgoodboy67 6d ago

Not solar though

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u/Superminerbros1 6d ago

No reason it couldn't have existed. Solar panels have been around for a while, and electric motors have been around for over a century. Very little is needed in between. Maybe a raspberry pi and a relay for control, and a battery to store some of the solar energy.

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u/IcedGooseMaverick 6d ago

A lot of people think solar is woke, so that’s why it didn’t exist sooner.