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PPT056: Designing Movable Shelters for Pasture Raised Broilers and Layers with Pastured Life Farm

September 18, 2017 Mike Badger 0 Comments

Today, Dave shares a new 300 broiler design that scales up the typical small-batch design of the Salatin shelters, but falls short of the size found in large scale mobile housing, such as the Mobile Range Coop. I’’s a great middle ground design for those of one small pastures, including silvopastures. And thanks to Irma,…

PPT048 Pat McNiff Goes from Cocker Spaniels and Hamsters to Professional Pastured Poultry

March 4, 2017 Mike Badger 0 Comments

In this episode, I profile Rhode Island pastured poultry farmer Pat McNiff of Pat’s Pastured. At the time of this interview, Pat raised 11,000 broilers, 600 turkeys, 1,800 laying hens, 250 laying ducks, 150 meat ducks, and 50 quail, in addition to hogs and beef. We cover a lot of ground about Pat’s successes, setbacks, and…

PPT043: The Richard Simmons Approach to Molting Hens with Jeff Mattocks

June 9, 2016 Mike Badger 0 Comments

We continue the mini-series with poultry nutritionist Jeff Mattocks of The Fertrell Company. This will be part 2 of our 3 part technical road series that we recorded on our way to Arkansas. That explains the road hum that I couldn’t get out, but everything is clear. In this episode, we talk about molting; The…

PPT056: Designing Movable Shelters for Pasture Raised Broilers and Layers with Pastured Life Farm

PPT048 Pat McNiff Goes from Cocker Spaniels and Hamsters to Professional Pastured Poultry

PPT043: The Richard Simmons Approach to Molting Hens with Jeff Mattocks

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