How to keep 1000 chickens for eggs on pasture | Joel Salatin

Attention all homesteaders: Are you ready to take your backyard chicken venture to the next level? Joel Salatin demonstrates how to raise 1000 laying hens on pasture for egg production at a commercial scale using his Millenium Feathernet structure and electric poultry netting. What better way is there to scale your farm business than to do it while healing the land using regenerative methods allowing your poultry to follow the cows and provide a rotational grazing benefit as well as minimizing diseases and caring for the soil.

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[SherraBZ]

Been following you since "Food Inc." Grateful for all the wisdom you share.

[SarahPerine]

I’ve been unable to do this because of predator pressure. Now I put one of my Maremmas in with my 350 hens and geese and not one problem 🙌🏽 I just had the dogs patrolling the farm before and the coyotes could sneak in and jump over the electric netting during the day 😭 I’m scaling up in the next two years but first developing BSFL system to save on feed costs. I didn’t like locking dogs up (it’s almost a 3/4 acre area). Once I realized they sleep all day and are not being harmed locked in with the birds… I tried it. I let them out at night to patrol the farm. If I use a structure like yours that doesn’t lock up the birds, I’d leave my dogs in there at night. It’s amazing how you open your mind to trying new things as you get more experience 🙌🏽 Thank you so much for all you teach us!!

[calholli]

I like how feeding the cows is just an after thought. lol..
The cows are just there to prepare the grass for the chickens; the fact that they get a meal out of the deal is just a bonus. ;)

[tomglenn]

Joel; your like the color of those yokes ... Gold

[JoeReese-khjc]

Meanwhile Tyson foods has a thousand chickens stacked into one cage....

[misterrees-vnti]

I'd love to do this in our back garden. We dont have so much space to support cows, so it would be on a much smaller surface.

Does anyone know if this could work with sheep to graze the long grass? We might have enough space for 2 or 3 of them.

Does anyone have any experience with that, professionally or not, or any numbers on this?

[nealvaughn]

Love it! Any reason Barred Rocks are the breed of choice?

[calholli]

So there's chicken poop and cow manure all over those fields: do you ever plow the fields or mow it? or harvest it for hay, etc? Or is it just a continual wild growth and then you let them feed on it.. Is there any other maintenance to the land, is my question?

[bruceberry]

Wondering about aerial predators - we have aggressive owl that will even go into a barn to get chickens. Obviously working for Polyface, Farm but how?

[klauskarbaumer]

Impressive. How do you keep the raptors away? They are as much a problem for us as coyotes and raccoons.

[wretched]

What if you're on very small acerage?

[antonhuman]

Thank you from South Africa!
Could you kindly inform what the size of the hoop house is accommodating a thousand hens/per 1, 000. And I gather - a hundred roosters - for the three winter months.
nealvaughn2340 comments these are Barred Rock fowls. What breed are the red ones? Give gas!

[JohnMiedtke]

Not sure the math works out so well when you factor in feeding 8 months of the year because it's too cold. I support the idea but please tell people why you need to charge $6/doz.

[SaaidAdi]

Please, brother, I follow you on YouTube and Instagram. Please help me find a job contract on a farm. May God bless you.🇲🇦🇺🇸🙏🙏