PASTURED POULTRY PROFITS

by JOEL SALATIN

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New large softcover book, 398 pages, first published in 1993, with an addendum for 1999 reprinting of the book.

A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $ 25,000-$ 30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agriculture held out such a plum. In a day when main-line farm experts predict the continued demise of the family farm, the pastured poultry opportunity shines like a beacon in the night, guiding the way to a brighter future - Joel Salatin

Joel began raising chickens when he was 10 years old and serendipitously fell into the pastured poultry concept a couple of years later when a pair of unused portable rabbit runs became available.  Still the centerpiece of the farm, and the engine that drives sales, notoriety, and profit, pastured poultry has revolutionised countless farming endeavors around the world.  A hard core how-to book, this includes all the stories and tips, from brooding to marketing.  Centered around meat chickens, it includes a section on layers and turkeys. Many would say this book started the American pastured poultry movement.

Chapters include

• Why Pastured Poultry?
• In the beginning
• Out to pasture
• Processing
• Problems (it's not all roses)
• Marketing
• Possibilities
• Appendices - includes resources, newsletters, addenda to the 1996 and 1999 reprintings, index

About the author

Joel F. Salatin (born 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author. He raises livestock using holistic methods of animal husbandry, free of potentially harmful chemicals, on his Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Meat from the farm is sold by direct-marketing to consumers and restaurants.

After graduating from college, Salatin married his childhood sweetheart in 1980 and became a feature writer at the Staunton, Virginia newspaper. He then decided to try farming full-time. His grandfather had been an avid gardener, beekeeper and a follower of J. I. Rodale, the founder of regenerative organic gardening. His parents had bought the land that became Polyface after losing a farm in Venezuela to political turmoil. They had raised cattle using organic methods, but could not make a living at farming alone.His father worked as an accountant and his mother taught high school physical education.

Salatin describes himself as a "Christian-libertarian-environmentalist-capitalist farmer". He produces high-quality "beyond organic" meats, which are raised using environmentally responsible, ecologically beneficial, sustainable methods. His philosophy of farming emphasizes healthy grass on which animals can thrive in a symbiotic cycle of chemical-free feeding. Cows are moved from one pasture to another rather than being centrally corn fed. Then chickens in portable coops are moved in behind them, where they dig through the cow dung to eat protein-rich fly larvae while further fertilizing the field with their droppings.

Joel is the author of 7 books including Family Friendly Farming, You Can Farm, Holy Cows & Hog Heaven, Salad Bar Beef, Everything I Want to Do is Illegal and his latest, The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer. He spends a hundred days a year lecturing at colleges and to environmental groups. He visited Australia in 2010

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Pastured Poultry Profits by Joel Salatin