Dad invented the portable electric fencing system and shademobile structures that we still use. I'm carrying on, making improvements as I go. Nest boxes accessible from outside make egg-gathering easy. Rather than dragging pastures after cattle leave a paddock, we roll in the eggmobile and put our layers to work. Using the eggmobile, we produce eggs for 25 cents per dozen.
Layers range out in ever-widening circles from the mobile structure.
By the fourth day, their grain consumption rises and egg production drops. Even though they have virtually unlimited access to pasture, they quit expanding the range and it's time to move them. Pasture always becomes stale to the animal before people can see it. Timing is important when we use the hens to debug our garden, too. We let them in for two days, because if left longer, they start eating vegetables.