Start to Finish: Raising Pastured Poultry (Joel Salatin Method)

Me and my wife are active duty military stationed out here in Colorado. We got into pastured poultry by discovering Joel Salatin's books and decided to try a small batch for ourselves. We borrowed land from a nearby neighbor, and raised 42 Cornish Cross chicks to 8 weeks old and processed by ourselves. This was our first time every doing this, so we definitely learned a lot. But we loved every minute of it and plan to do it again in the future. Even if you don't want to get into selling pastured poultry, this process allowed us to fill an entire deep freezer with good, healthy chicken for our family at a fraction of the price it would have been if we had purchased from a store or a farm.

This video shows that no matter where you are, or where you live, you can raise pastured poultry!

If you're interested in raising your own chickens one day, here is our recommended reading list to get started on the right track:

[antonhuman]

I'm senior. At least 9, 600 miles off in South Africa.
And enjoyed every minute. The brooder. Contingency measures. Processing cycle. And you had good. Healthy. Antibiotics-free, I hope, food.
I am so proud of you!
God bless!

[jeffborg]

Extremely heartening to see young people trying this for the first time and seeing it through.
Well done.

[lbradshaw]

Recently was thinking of going through this journey myself and this was incredibly insightful

[battyroy]

Thanks for the brevity. People usually ramble.

[jackieyoung]

As someone who grew up on a dairy farm, thank you for giving a shout out to farmers. I always cringe whenever I hear somebody complaining about the cost of food. If everyone had the same experience that you just went through of raising/growing their own food, even if it was just one time, I think there would be so much more understanding and respect for how much it takes to put food on everyone’s plates.

[victorgonzalez]

8 weeks huh? The wife and I saw the video and loved it! We're seriously thinking of doing the same with about a dozen birds. Thanks for the inspiration.

[stevedeweysmith]

Well done video to summarize the whole lifespan of the chickens and your tasks as farmer. thanks !

[erindepaz]

Great job! I hope videos like this help the average person living in the suburbs with maybe 1/2 an acre or more to see that they could do something similar with maybe 25 birds at a time.

[theisaiahs]

Av been thinking about this for a while. Thank you I can now follow your idea. 🙏

[juliajenkins]

So well done!! I’m excited to see where this journey takes you in the future, and I hope to see some more videos along the way! 💛

[mr.bgaming]

Great video! I really enjoyed how you put everything together and I hope you keep making videos, I look forward to watching them.

[terriwhite]

FYI, there are lights with plastic cages that help to prevent fires

[bubbawayne]

Keep Jesus first in your life and your life will be good not perfect

[codykingsworld]

Very impressed with your first video! Great work! I did my first round of 50 freedom rangers this year. Still working on my video. I'm reading Polyface Micro right now and I got to say the broilers chapter had some really good information. I made the mistake of cooking my chicken the same day I butchered them, and it was really tough. But he had talked highly of the Cornish cross so I think I'm going to try that next year. Good luck on your channel and your farming adventures. I just subscribed.

[deecee]

Great Video. Did you supplement with feed and if so, how much feed did you have to buy? Thanks

[DominickFarms]

Awesome job you guys! I am planning on starting a chicken farm up in Colorado as well :)

[JosephCapodici]

I was thinking of using a large kiddie pool for brooder

[NetherAngelGaming]

At some point in the process you get comfortable enough and start calling them "Ladies" - Every - Time. It's like ratcheting something into the back of your truck, you NEED to slap it and say "That ain't goin anywhere"

[pavlaholmanova]

Hi there, good job, I admire your effort. We raise chickens too and I always look for ways to improve the conditions for our animals. I've been dreaming of pastured poultry for some time now, the only thing that is still hindering me from realizing it is foxes. I have seen a bunch of the pasture boxes similar to yours and I just can't fathom, that the foxes don't get amongst the chickens from under the box, I mean they can dig very well! Are you honestly saying that not one fox or raccoon or other pest visited your boxes? I just can't believe it. Foxes roam the forests around us and everyone that has layer hens in our village gets one or more visit a year, even if the hens are in a coop all night, the foxes are just unbeatable.
Anyway, good luck to you and a small tip - 8 weeks to raise chickens is a bare minimum. try at least 3 months, possibly more. The structure of the meat is then completely different - more mature, and the meat tastes even better. Maybe try just one and compare it to an 8week one and you will see the difference. Best of luck!

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