English Explanatory Dictionary

chicken tractor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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).

Word forms

chicken tractor chicken tractors

Etymology

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.

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