Welcome to Skyline Hill Poultry

We are a small poultry farm located in Wayne, Wisconsin, nestled in the rolling hills of the Kettle Moraine. Our chickens free range, spending their day eating bugs and plants, taking dust baths and exploring the hillside. While our chickens are not fed an organic diet nor are vegetarian, their layer feed is provided by a local feed mill located about 10 miles from our farm. Take a look around our site and feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Our New Chicken Tractor is Complete!

What’s a chicken tractor? A chicken tractor is basically a moveable coop with an outdoor run. We decided to build a chicken tractor this year to use in raising our meat chickens. This enables us to raise them on pasture. Since the tractor has a set of wheels, we can move the tractor every couple of days to a new batch of grass for the chickens to work on. I have also discovered that meat chickens are pretty messy, so moving the tractor keeps their coop and run area clean and the droppings left behind fertilize the grass.



Our last set of meat chickens for the year are growing quickly. They reach butcher weight by 8 or 9 weeks. Raising them on pasture will reduce the feed cost slightly and provide them with a more varied diet. Since we don’t use chemicals on our property, we don’t worry about any impact to the quality of the meat.

Here are some pictures of the new chicken tractor. In designing the tractor, we wanted to make sure it was very sturdy and would provide the chickens a safe environment from predators while allowing them to scratch for bugs and eat lots of greenery. The tractor needed to withstand our weather which includes heavy thunderstorms at times and high winds. We won’t be using the tractor during the winter months, but it will be stored outside until next spring and a new batch of chicks arrive.


Here's our St. Bernard checking on the chickens.  All of the dogs are VERY interested in what's going on in there!