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Author Topic: Joel Salatin - Thought Provoking  (Read 999 times)

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Joel Salatin - Thought Provoking
« 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.

clydesdaleclopper

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: Joel Salatin - Thought Provoking
« Reply #1 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.
Our holding has Anglo Nubian and British Toggenburg goats, Gotland sheep, Franconian Geese, Blue Swedish ducks, a whole load of mongrel hens and two semi-feral children.

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: Joel Salatin - Thought Provoking
« Reply #2 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.

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Joel Salatin - Thought Provoking
« Reply #3 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.

 

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