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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Marches Farmer on December 14, 2013, 05:44:37 pm

Title: Joel Salatin - Thought Provoking
Post by: Marches Farmer on December 14, 2013, 05:44:37 pm
Check out "Polyface Farm managed grazing and chickens" by Joel Salatin on YouTube.  Got a lot of time for his approach and enthusiasm for lateral thinking.
Title: Re: Joel Salatin - Thought Provoking
Post by: clydesdaleclopper on December 14, 2013, 06:12:48 pm
His books are really interesting reading, though a lot of it is his frustration at the American bureaucracy associated with farming. I use the idea of chickens behind the other livestock in the rotation. Mine go in last before the paddock is rested.
Title: Re: Joel Salatin - Thought Provoking
Post by: Marches Farmer on December 15, 2013, 08:28:08 am
I thought his idea on keeping meat rabbits in hutches above the growers was a good use of otherwise wasted space, too.
Title: Re: Joel Salatin - Thought Provoking
Post by: Rosemary on December 15, 2013, 02:55:05 pm
We've read a bit of JS hence our pasture fed meat birds this year. Will be using the same system next year and maybe raising layer pullets in the same way.