While we all love chooks, they don’t make the best house guests — so send them packing with a Chicken Caravan.
Left too long in one spot poultry will turn your garden into a Martian landscape, full of dust bath craters, clawed up grass and poo so high in nitrogen it can kill your plants.
Enter Daniel O’Brien, who created the Chicken Caravan a decade ago after starting his own free-range egg business.
“I needed a mobile chicken shed but there was nothing on the market,” Daniel said.
“So I made my own and 12 months later other farmers were buying from us.”
Daniel will attend the Seymour expo with his Chicken Caravan 10, Chicken Caravan 30 and electric chicken fencing.
“Every time we develop a new product it is always about saving time. We love efficiency,” he said.
The generation-five Chicken Caravan 30 will be hitching a ride to the expo to show off its “awesome new features”.
“We have a lot of customers around the Seymour area so it's great to be able to connect with them face-to-face and show them some new improvements that we have been working on,” Daniel said.
Small chicken caravans can house 10 to 30 hens for people who want a hobby flock, while larger caravans can house 130, 450 to 600 laying hens for those looking to make a business out of it.