Pastured Poultry Production and Profitability

"Pastured Poultry Production and Profitability" covers the basics of pastured poultry production as well as common advantages and pitfalls of getting started in the business and keys to keeping operations profitable.

It was offered by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT), Montana Mission Mountain Food and Cooperative Development Center, and Salish Kootenai College as part of the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA) education and community outreach program.

It also announced a Montana-based pastured poultry production and marketing workshop series set to begin in March.

NCAT Sustainable Poultry Specialist Terrell "Spence" Spencer will be the webinar presenter.

While this webinar will kick off the Montana-based project, it is open to anyone interested in pastured poultry production. The webinar will provide a financial analysis of this type of farming based on the records and experience of a medium-size pastured poultry farm.

[TheFaithful]

Thank you so much for this webinar. I have 6 months left in the Marine Corps, didn't grow up around farms at all, and will be starting my own grass based sustainable farm in Ohio!

[johnfitbyfaithnet]

Great details thank you for sharing this important information listening from Bangs Tx

[HoneyHollowHomestead]

You just confirmed what I suspected about the "vegetarian fed" chickens in the market. I avoid them!  Not ready to start slaughtering my own chickens yet, just doing eggs. This was a very good, and informative webinar, even if it is over a year old.

[TheWillowlady]

You could offer those chicken backs to home stock and broth makers. I know I would buy them for that very purpse and many folks are getting back doing that across the country. Thanks for all the great info.

[RCvolunteer]

I am running a tiny food garden co-op for a Community Church garden but after three years we thought of starting chicken egg Laying production but to add more fertilizer to the garden so we could have a bigger yeld in food for the poor   

[fantasyreflection]

When large producers had flax for omega three's I can taste it, like paint thinner.

[sheltrown]

on the broilers (100 broilers = 1ton of chicken poop) what time frame are we looking at on this ? thanks

[sheltrown]

on a comment that was made at the end of this video
why would it be bad if the chickens eat too many bugs
when it was said the chickens would stop eating when they where full
are the bug just to rich ? just wondering on this comment
thanks

[Riaanus]

Where would the black Autralorp fit in?

[tkbywatr]

(speaking of chicken feed)
"I've caught the Interns eating it."
hehehe!

[jksatte]

Can't believe the processing costs.  How can they sell a chicken for $4.50 with those processing costs. I get the other costs are different but it should cost the same to process, right? This was very informative. Thanks!  Janice

[ralphy]

There is no way you should spend two hours explaining it