housing

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

September 18, 2017 Mike Badger All Podcasts, Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast 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,…

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PPT037: Pastured Poultry is Beyond Dirt

March 21, 2016 Mike Badger All Podcasts, Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast 0 Comments

As a continuation of episode 35, Spence is back for a guest host spot to talk about pasture management.  We talk about managing broilers and layers on pasture. Spence is in the midst of transitioning his layers from an egg mobile to a daily move prairie schooner for precision manure management and predator protection. We go…

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PPT036 Frozen Chicken Completely Changed Healthy Hen Farms Business – A Profile of John McAuley

March 11, 2016 Mike Badger All Podcasts, Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast 0 Comments

North Carolina producer John McAuley (Healthy Hen Farms) joins the show to talk about his pastured broiler operation, marketing frozen chicken, and some lessons learned in the brooder.  John focuses on pasture-raised broilers and turkeys and expects to raise approximately 8,000 birds in 2016. John started his pastured poultry career in the mid 1990’s as Polyface’s…

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