Polyface Farm – Pastured Poultry – Part 4

December 24, 2011 | Filed under: Videos | Posted by:


2010 Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense FundRAISER – Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm Tour

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5 Responses to Polyface Farm – Pastured Poultry – Part 4

  1. There is a lot of confusion about what a ‘chicken tractor’ really is- a drag pen sized to fit between the rows of a garden. The chickens then eat the weeds & bugs, and cultivate the soil suface, hence the name ‘checken tractor’. Polyface winters laying hens in hoop houses, under rabbit cages. Hybrid broilers (naturally mated crosses between chickens selected for efficent growth & large breats) finish in 8-12 weeks, shown being raised here in pasture pens, only spring-fall at Polyface.

    Jefferdaughter
    December 24, 2011 at 10:06 pm
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  2. the kid was hilarious

    itsumonihon
    December 24, 2011 at 10:16 pm
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  3. pastured poltery is done on a seasonal basis.

    DSuangka
    December 24, 2011 at 11:00 pm
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  4. I don’t think he runs them in the winter.

    cathysueraymond
    December 24, 2011 at 11:37 pm
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  5. With these chicken tractors how do you keep the water from freezing in the winter?

    london1817
    December 25, 2011 at 12:29 am
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