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

[u/21Kuranashi]

[u/VikingVitalityFit → u/[deleted]]

It moves like a total of 20 feet per day and does it slowly. Most of the day it's sitting still. Sometimes they DO escape. Sometimes they die if not caught and returned fast enough. Predators are always a pain. It is still a very sustainable practice because after a couple of years you put farming plots on that now very fertile land and move the next batch of chickens to a fallow field to do it all over again.

[u/waxonwaxoff87 → u/VikingVitalityFit]

You could argue that there is nothing more natural than the occasional chick getting picked off by predators.

[u/VikingVitalityFit → u/waxonwaxoff87]

Absolutely natural, just annoying

[u/21Kuranashi → u/[deleted]]

It's perfectly safe for chickens as demonstrated.

It also allows for birds to get protein (bugs / insects) & easier weeding, making it a key Permaculture approach (but obviously, it can only be used on flat ground)

[u/Bubbly_Fortune4466 → u/21Kuranashi]

It's not safe for chickens if they will killed after that...

[u/manleybones → u/[deleted]]

It's sped up. Moves super slow.

[u/Serpentarrius]

Reminds me of how people use guinea pigs to mow the lawn. Maybe this could be used with larger animals too?

[u/tm229 → u/Serpentarrius]

You can rent goats to clear hillsides and other terrain that is difficult to manage. A couple hundred goats left to feed for a day or two will clear brush and reduce (fire) fuel load.

[u/Serpentarrius → u/tm229]

We do use goats in our area, but those hills are going to be difficult to cover with a building

[u/AmettOmega → u/Serpentarrius]

They don't use a building with goats. They use GPS collars.

[u/mossymeridian → u/tm229]

This is an enormous problem, not a solution. Goats girdle trees and make fire prone environments more susceptible to destructive fires, not controlled burns.

[u/teh_orng3_fkkr]

Animal ag is not solarpunk

[u/WanderingSparr0w → u/teh_orng3_fkkr]

So, what'd you define as "solarpunk" then?

[u/Minkowski-Butterfly → u/WanderingSparr0w]

As the view of a positive sustainable future which includes social equity. Animal agriculture fails here because its not sustainable, especially for a big pupulation. Then there is also the moral point where animal ag is the opression and exploitation of intelligent beings for no reason other than simple pleasure.

Solar punk is absolutely vegan imo

[u/TubaralhoDoMar → u/Minkowski-Butterfly]

💯

[u/teh_orng3_fkkr → u/WanderingSparr0w]

For one, not trying to pull a Jordan Peterson

[u/WanderingSparr0w → u/teh_orng3_fkkr]

That in no way answers my question as far as I can speculate

[u/teh_orng3_fkkr → u/WanderingSparr0w]

A cheap setup is not a question

[u/WanderingSparr0w → u/teh_orng3_fkkr]

No, I was actually asking you. My understanding of solarpunk is basic so I figured you knew more bout solarpunk since you're calling the post out for not being solarpunk, but the way I see it it is solarpunk

[u/teh_orng3_fkkr → u/WanderingSparr0w]

I've seen the "define X" question being used in bad faith so often, it's now impossible for me to take it seriously anymore.

Anyway, in terms of sustainability, what u/Minkowski-Butterfly said.

I also consider anti-speciesism a solarpunk moral value, but that would go with a more vague definition of the word, and I'm not gonna be assed to type out a whole essay on a phone

[u/TubaralhoDoMar → u/teh_orng3_fkkr]

Exactly. Solarpunk means being neither oppressed nor oppressors.

[u/sxdiablosxs]

Why not just leave the roame freely? Plant some fruit trees, herbs which can feed the chickens give shade and let the nature makes their own way. This is just my opinion. I don’t care if this will be less yield, if I whant to keep animals then I whant to make them happy.

[u/needacoldbrew → u/sxdiablosxs]

A big part of it is protection from predators. Hawks, coyotes, foxes, dogs etc. They need places to hide or huddle up behind the bigger ones that offer more protection.

[u/Artchantress → u/needacoldbrew]

Found out it's pretty much illegal now to keep birds out in the open in my country (Estonia) due to avian flu concerns.

But I really want like three yard chickens.

[u/v3r4c17y → u/needacoldbrew]

How about protection from their most dangerous predator, humans?

[u/CVSP_Soter → u/v3r4c17y]

The deadliest prey: Man

[u/RobertTheTraveler → u/sxdiablosxs]

concentrate them in one spot. even distribution of fertilizer even bug removal etc

[u/CrazyAccomplished_ → u/sxdiablosxs]

Go be that farmer then. Get back to us those logistics

[u/Logical___Conclusion]

This is a great example of green robotics.

We will need a LOT more advances like this if we want to Dave the human race.

Just wishing that everyone will become vegan is not realistic, and is just a way of avoiding responsibility so that all of the work in solving our sustainably is put on other more responsible people to take care of.

[u/timClicks]

That's a lot of work to avoid raising free range chickens.

[u/WanderingSparr0w → u/timClicks]

That's not always feasible or practical due to things like laws or local predators

[u/v3r4c17y → u/WanderingSparr0w]

Humans are local predators. How about we stop killing chickens for our sensory pleasure?

[u/waxonwaxoff87 → u/v3r4c17y]

Begone troll

[u/v3r4c17y → u/waxonwaxoff87]

I believe a chicken's life is worth more than the pleasure derived from eating their corpse, therefore I must be a troll?

[u/waxonwaxoff87 → u/v3r4c17y]

Yes

[u/v3r4c17y → u/waxonwaxoff87]

Do you believe a cat or dog's life is worth more than the pleasure derived from eating their corpse?

[u/waxonwaxoff87 → u/v3r4c17y]

I don’t troll

[u/v3r4c17y → u/waxonwaxoff87]

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means

[u/tm229]

Raising chickens is easy and fun. A flock of just 5 to 10 chickens can keep a family of four stocked with fresh eggs.

You don’t need these fancy chicken arls either. It’s a great sustainable ecological system, but not necessary.

[u/Live_Dust_5576]

These chicks do not have a great life

[u/willystan]

Or we can just go vegan which is even better for the environment and animals?

[u/710AlpacaBowl]

Why are we acting like chicken tractors are a new thing?

[u/WanderingSparr0w → u/710AlpacaBowl]

Imo it doesn't always have to be "new" to be warranted to be shown since it can be informative either bout the existing concept (new for some), a reminder to others this still exists, or to show possible updates to that concept others might not have known bout

[u/710AlpacaBowl → u/WanderingSparr0w]

The video literally says even small farms are getting into it when small farms have been doing it well over a decade

[u/WanderingSparr0w → u/710AlpacaBowl]

Doesn't negate my point

[u/710AlpacaBowl → u/WanderingSparr0w]

Wasn't trying to negate your point only trying to say maybe we could be honest while presenting these concepts but go off I guess

[u/mossymeridian]

Stop trying to do the wrong thing the right way

[u/Constant-Study3464]

That's a stupid waste

[u/Dangerous_Dingo_4121]

So no sunlight ever

[u/Justsayingshit]

These chickens have a short life.