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production and marketing system can earn $25,000 from 20 acres.
The
popularity of the pasture-based poultry production system pioneered by Virginia
grazier Joel Salatin continues to soar on farms across the country. And for
good reason. Coupled with innovative direct marketing, it can squeeze a lot of
income out of a little land, making it a perfect complement to other farm
enterprises. Here are some resources to help get you started:
 21st
Century Lives: Joel Salatin -- If you missed the pioneering
grazier, pastured poultry producer, and relationship marketer on ABC News, you
can read the text or view the video.
Pasture
Poultry Discussion Group -- Share tips with other pasture poultry
producers. This page has the latest digest and index to previous digests. To
recieve digests or individual messages via email, sign up starting from the eGroups.com
homepage.
Mobile
Poultry Processing Unit -- Trailer-mounted facility helps cut processing
costs for small-scale poultry producers. Includes Photo
Gallery of the unit in action.
Jako Inc. -- Scalders and pluckers
designed with the pastured-poultry producer in mind.
Salatin's book, "Pastured
Poultry Profits: Net $25,000 in 6 Months on 20 Acres" can be ordered for
$30 (plus $3.50 postage) from:
The Stockman Grass Farmer
PO Box 2300
Ridgeland, MS 39158
(800)748-9808
His video is also available for $50 (plus $3.50
postage).
Sustainable Chicken
Production -- Free info packet from ATTRA (Appropriate Technology Transfer
for Rural Areas), includes introduction to free-range pastured poultry,
semi-intensive, and yard and coop systems. Breeds, feed options, flock health
on-farm processing, alternative marketing, using flocks to weed and till, and
more. Call ATTRA from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (CST) Monday through Friday at
800-346-9140.
Free-Range Poultry
Production, Processing and Marketing. Developed with the assistance of a
USDA/SARE Producer grant, this guidebook describes a low-labor method using long
portable skid houses holding up to 400 chickens each.
Description
and ordering information. A
short
course will be offered by the author in southeast Ohio on November 7, 8 and
9th, 1997.
American
Pastured Poultry Producers Association. APPPA publishes a quarterly
newsletter sharing information on production practices, processing equipment,
marketing, legal issues, and more. The association's producer database networks
producers and customers. Membership is $20. Contact:
Jody
Padgham PO Box 1024 Chippewa
Falls, WI 54729 715-667-5501
grit@apppa.org
Pastured
poultry in Ontario -- Salatin-style set-up using Ultimate
Trough Waterers.
Pastured Poultry -- A
brief overview at an excellent site authored by New York dairy farmers and
pastured-poultry producers George and Jessica Vanderwoude.
Greenhouse Style Pasture
Poultry Pen -- An interesting variation on the Salatin pen by Maine
grazier Chris Bailey, featuring a picture and construction details. Part of
dairyman F.W. Owen's highly recommended
Owenlea Holsteins site.
Pasture-Raised Poultry -- Short story in our
Gear-Up For Grazing menu featuring New York
producers.
USDA-SARE/Heifer Project Pasture
Poultry Project -- Eleven limited-resource farm families test pastured
poultry system. News release.
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