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Poultry out to Pasture

We put our first batch of meat birds out on pasture in our new tractor today. These birds are 3 weeks old.

First, a couple of pictures of the birds in the brooder. Here are two custom brooder boxes, each is 3’x4′. The boxes have guillotine doors that are both open to allow them access to both boxes at the same time.

Here are a few pictures of the birds in the tractor on grass.

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Pastured Poultry

We just finished building a “Joel Salatin” style chicken tractor to tractor our meat birds around the pasture. We’ve built and tried a lot of different chicken tractors, but this one is sanctioned by the master of pastured poultry profits, so it should be great!

I tried to match the original design fairly exactly. I did use 2×4 lumber for the base with some re-enforcements to ensure it will be solid.

We’ll start using this on Wednesday with a batch of meat birds.