Getting Started with Pastured Poultry - Setting Up Our Suscovich Tractor - A Big Mistake
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 พ.ค. 2020
- Are you interested in getting started with pastured poultry and using the Suscovich style tractor? Today we set up our tractors to get ready to move our pastured broilers out onto the pasture.
We show how we attach the tarps, suspend the feeders, use the Plasson style bell drinkers and move birds into the tractor. We talk about our how we feed meat birds, how many we put in a tractor and how we move them daily.
Raising meat chickens on pasture is not difficult but does require some preparation. We've take a lot of lessons from Joel Salatin's Pastured Poultry Profits and applied those in raising meat birds out on grass.
During the transfer we make a huge mistake in moving birds out. Be sure to stay to the end to learn how we messed up.
Sheraton Park Farms practices holistic, sustainable farming and soil building using a rotational grazing model as we try to grow more grass on our farm.
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It happened to us in a 6x9 chicken tractor with 5 wk old welsummer pullets. They all piled up in the corner to sleep and 4 were smothered. Only had #20 of them in tractor. We had to put a piece of plywood in corner. Great info, as always thanks for sharing. God bless your family. 🙏
The fact that you shared your mistake with the viewer got me to sub
bewarethehorsemen thanks. We try to share the good and the bad. Never any shortage of mistakes so we are constantly learning. Appreciate y’all watching.
That's a really neat small trailer to haul the chicken tractor longer distances.
Thanks for sharing the mistake, we all make some. It's great that you share both sides of farm life, it may prevent someone else from making a similar miscalculation.
Thanks. It really isn't all rainbows and puppies so we hope to help folks not make the same mistakes we have. Can be a bit embarrassing but that's just part of it. Really appreciate ya'll watching.
It happens. We find we continue to learn every day. You have such a great clean system. Thank you.
Thanks Fiona. Appreciate you watching and all your positive comments. Hate we had a loss but really learned a lot.
I am watching alot of your videos. Also going tell my brother to watch them. Think he like them.
Awesome! Thank you!
We use old/cheap ratchet straps to hang our feeders and waterers. The cheapest Walmart / Harbor Freight straps are more than strong enough and they are easy to adjust as the birds get older.
I know it sucks , but shit happens some times. Good job being true. Todd
Thanks Todd. It’s not always ready but we keep trying. Appreciate you watching friend!!
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I am going to start with my first meat chickens this spring. Tha is for sharing your experiences for us rookies. Question, do you buy your chicks everytime? I'm wondering about hatching meat chicks and havent found solid info yet.
Yes. We buy all of our meat chickens as day old chicks. Its just easy and I'm a sucker for easy. haha
Thanks for watching.
Square crates have corners and Birds get crushed in the corner, use a barrel or anything round instead
Good tip. We should have done that.
This is an algorithm comment... Because Utube.
Thanks! 👍
Do you feel the freedom rangers are worth the extra time and feed cost?
Yes. We have had less loss due to death over the Cornish cross. I’m willing to feed a little extra to have better grow our numbers. Some folks do fine with the Cornish but we just haven’t had good luck.
You might have covered this I just found your channel but how many batches do you do a year
We’ll do 5 or 6 per year.
@@SheratonParkFarms Thank you so much I appreciate the help do you like hundred per batch
In the past we’ve done 120-150 per batch. Upping our fans this year to 250 per batch.
How big are your chicken tractors?
6x12. Do a Google search for Suscovich chicken tractor. We love them. Appreciate y’all watching
Sorry guys! We all learn every day
No kidding. If it weren’t for mistakes, I wouldn’t have anything to make videos on. 🤣 Appreciate y’all watching
Well I guess you can just take that out of your pay! I’m sure you already know that
Yeah. Running your own business and especially a farm the pocketbook feels your mistakes quickly. Thanks for watching