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Coming out of the 2019 vault, we decided to release this recorded lecture from the 2019 Homesteaders of America conference during this uncertain time, to hel...
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- Homesteaders of America
Oct 24, 2012 · From crating to cooling, bleed out to bag up - and everything in between - Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms and David Schafer of Featherman Equipment demonstrate and explain the entire process...
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- MOTHER EARTH NEWS and Friends
Oct 22, 2023 · This is Part 1 of Joel Salatin doing a broiler chicken processing demo. It took place on October 16 2023 during the SRF at the SOE (Special Operations Equipme...
- 25 min
- Mississippi Homestead Journey
- How to Increase Profit on The Homestead
- Licensing & Permits
- Time Commitment
- Start Small
- Value Adding to Increase Profit
- Farm-Raised vs. Store Bought
- Sheep vs. Goats
- Rotating Cows For Maximum Pasture Production
- Homestead Animal Happiness
Before thinking you need more acreage (which is exactly where my husband and I were before we went to the Homesteader's of America Conference last month)start brainstorming what you can do to stack additional enterprises upon what you're currently doing.
Before you jump into producing goods on your land for profit, it's good to know what it will take to not only process the animals, but what special licensing or permits are required. Joel suggests looking into the Federal Exemption PL90-492 (Producer/Grower Exemption) which allows you to raise and sell up to 20,000 chickens per year without inspect...
Raising animals and butchering them yourself is a time commitment, one you should know about ahead of time, especially if you're working another day job as my husband and I do (this blog, my YouTube channel, and The Pioneering Today Academyare all my full-time job) and would need to find additional time for processing and selling. For example, Joel...
Joel also recommends starting on a smaller scale before jumping into larger numbers as mentioned above. Don't jump right off raising 200 meat chickens expecting to raise them, butcher them, and sell them. Just start raising and selling 25 or more and sell them to friends and family, or by word of mouth. By the time you get to a level where you'll n...
When Joel and his wife first started raising, butchering and selling chickens they only sold them as fresh whole birds. They didn't freeze them, or piece them out. After so many years of clients asking them to part their chickens out (saying they'd buy more chicken if it was already cut up and they could just buy boneless, skinless chicken breast, ...
One of the things, in today's culture, is this idea that farm-raised meat (whether it's poultry, beef, pork, etc.) has a flavor profile so different than what you buy in the grocery store and the end product of correctly raised/fed farm-raised meat is much healthier. Beef raised on only grass and chickens allowed to free-range and peck for bugs tas...
I've been wondering lately about adding another animal to our farm. We currently raise cows, pigs and both meat and egg-laying chickens, but we felt like we needed something to help us maintain our land a bit better. Joel shared the pros and cons of sheep and goats, mentioning that both will eat more thorny plants which cows don't. However, a goat ...
“Change the management, change the vegetation.” This is what Joel told me when I mentioned that I was curious if we needed to re-seed our pasture and keep the cows off it for a time in order to restore the land. His take was much more practical and makes perfect sense. Before talking with Joel, we had our 6 head of cattle on 3 acres split into 1-ac...
Joel has a new book coming out in August 2021 called “Homestead Animal Happiness”and it has a whole chapter explaining what we discussed in this podcast, even scaling food productions down to 2-3 acre parcels. You can check out Joel Salatin's other books on the Polyface Farms website, and keep your eyes out for when his new book is released.
Sep 16, 2013 · Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms shares his vision of the perfect chicken in this article for the McMurray Hatchery blog.
Lunatic farmer Joel Salatin shares the insight he's gained through more than 60 years of farming. He'll walk you step-by-step through the process of setting up and running your own successful pastured poultry operation.
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Oct 24, 2011 · Just behind the oversize shed that serves as his farm’s shop is what Salatin calls the chicken-processing center, where the living birds that squawked in the field this morning are killed,...
