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1940?s ?automatic fertilizer distributor?
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 Chickens in moveable cages

This "automatic fertilizer distributor" (movable chicken cage) was used by my father during the 1940's. Later he built a much bigger cage without netting on the bottom, for geese. We moved the goose pen every day or so and thus kept our lawn mowed!

 

Submitted by Dale Ritchey, Raleigh Co., WV

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