10 Years' Experience Raising Broiler Chickens on Pasture for Commercial Sale
2024 ж. 17 Мам.
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Today Hilarie and I are repairing broiler chicken pasture boxes and moving a batch of broiler chicks onto pasture. Along the way, I explain how our boxes are constructed and how we raise broiler chickens on pasture, along with answering frequently asked questions about the process.
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-We do not sell live animals
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Pete, Im absolutely filled with gratitude right now, my heart is straight up beating outside my chest. My father-in-law decided to retire from his dairy herd this week after 40 years, leaving us with 85 acres (60 cultivatable acres) to farm with! We were going to try and start with some broilers on part of the farm this year and was getting ready to shoot you an email to ask a few questions, you have answered basically all of them here! For a new and young farmer, this has literally made the world of difference for me in making our dream/goal come true. I've still got my town job and we have an old old farmhouse to fix up but you are absolutely inspiring and providing an amazing wealth of information. Thank you - from a farmer north of the border.
That's awesome Austin! My #1 goal is to help folks getting started out.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm Thank you Pete! Been watching for two years now preparing for this moment. I have watched so many of your videos 100 of times, I will be back to watch them again as we start renovating our pastures. Feel like in many ways, I am you younger but also 20 years in the future, it is amazing to watch it all evolve! Thank you for being wonderful and sharing, I will be forever grateful!
@@JustaFewAcresFarm We had 12 meat birds C.C. that we got back at the end of March, and went 7 weeks They dress out at 5.5 Lbs. They were raised inside. Now we have 15 more growing. Thanks Pete. Your a big help to lots of people.
@@Aussie-6869 by north of the border Im guessing you mean Canada...so before you rush into chickens like Pete has or the way he sells them and such I would look into our Canadian laws around them and the requirements you need...they will be much different than the laws Pete has to work around or with in. And they may be different from province to province as well. Looking into those laws could save you some money and could also save you from catching fines if the laws arent followed. Hopefully your able to butcher them on farm like Pete can otherwise taking a heap of chickens to a butcher might get expencive. Anyway best of luck to you.👍
Pete is a great guy and has help us bunches too! Thanks Pete (and Hillery)
Confident but yet humble enough understand change is a constant
Pete, I subscribe to several regenerative farming and permaculture channels, and I've got to thank you for your succinct delivery of information. A lot of channels seem to think that viewers want to watch a bunch of off-topic vlog-type fluff before getting to the meat of the video. I'm not that kind of viewer. I don't videos from KZheadrs who think every little detail of their daily routine is soooo interesting that they don't cover the video title's topic until 5-9 minutes in. Your entire video was full of good, useful content and no fluff. Thanks!
Great video Pete. This will be our 3rd year running a similar setup. I watched your videos among others in the beginning to get started. Thank you for all that you do and good luck this season.
I can't believe this is now my 3rd year of watching the broilers going out on pasture. Time really does fly!
Wow this channel is incredible
Inspiring! We’re just getting our operation going on an acre. We only had a couple hundred budget, but we’re already running the incubator and making sales!
Great job!!! Keep up the good work!
When you say making sales, can you share how? As whole birds on-farm butchered, or sending to a processor? Or selling live birds?
@@suburbangardenpermaculture3117 definitely live birds! I think that market is posed to explode with the government killing off poultry with their bird flu narrative, and egg/meat prices hyperinflating rapidly. I’m also currently raising up two dozen to slaughter and trade for a quarter of a beef cow. Essentially I’ll get organic grass fed beef for $1.50 a pound (When you factor in our chicken feed inputs) We sell chicks, and pullets have been surprisingly popular. We’ll be making lots of videos on this and how we’re marketing them soon
@@HomesteadForALiving how do you go about finding buyers?
@@nickv5013 talk to people about what you did on the weekend etc. People are crying out for authenticity! Just be genuine and honest. Also, doesn't hurt to throw them a dozen eggs, or share a wing or drumstick with them. Once they taste it... 😌
Hilarie seems like a sweet woman and she's right there with you holding it down. You are truly blessed.
I love how generous you are with sharing your knowledge. You are awesome!
I have nothing to do with agriculture or livestock, but I could listen to you for hours, as you chatter along in your easy, straightforward style. It doesn't matter that I know precious little about cattle or chickens or pastures, your good-sense oratory holds lessons in practical thinking for many other areas of life. Thanks a million, Pete.
Pete your videos are always top tier . I'm glad I found your channel , I really love the vids🙏🏼👍🏼
Great stuff Brother! Your Bride is such a gift to you and the farm.
I love how genuine you seem! I run a skirt around my chicken tractors that I made with hardware cloth and 2×2's then I put landscaping blocks on them for weight. It stopped all predation. I have a very covered area where I raise my chickens and haven't had any issues!
Excellent tutorial on broiler chickens Mr. Pete! Yes sir we know Ms. Hilarie. She's the lady of few words with a big smile who's always the greatest asset of Just A Few Acres Farm. 😊
I think you are a national treasure for sure. I bet your ansestors would be so proud
Your pasture grass looks amazing
Pete you explain things for a non farmer can understaand, keep up the good work.
Another great video Pete! I always enjoy watching you and Hilarie work together.
Enjoyed the question answer with bird songs in the background today.🐦
Hello Pete it good to see you today see you soon
You are not just chicken keeper!! you so wonderful moderator!! really good speaker!!
I seen another farmer build his out of PVC piping which may make it lighter when moving. I love all your explanations and by the way Hillary is beautiful and y'all's relationship is awesome
What a team
gotta love the "experts" telling you how to do it pete haha
APM watch this one again hey Pete I'm watching this one again this is February 2023 he have done redundant super c and put a tricycle front end on it you did a great job I don't have anything to tell you to do I like you and Hillary good I enjoy your shows I watched most of them two or three times I hope you get a little bit of something out everyday every time I watch it I like to go back and watch all the dishes and stuff I wish we were friends thank God for you and Miss Hillary y'all mean so much to me amen
Big Love from India ❤️
Good day Pete. Very informative, fun 🤩 video. Glad you keep some of your methods private from competition
Well thought out ingenuity Pete.
I am always eagerly awaiting your videos! They're more than interesting. You provide a ton of information and humor and a genuine example of love between a man and a woman that's real and not contrived. It's refreshing to see. Thank you both❤
Thanks for the videos. Just goin go to bed after watching this.
One of your best episodes yet, Pete! Practical information, well thought out rational on your feeding of those feathered monsters, wise update on your tractors, and obvious care taken when you transferred the squawkers from one location to another were highlights that I soaked up. Well done, indeed---both of you.
Pete, your analytical skills are amazing. We enjoy your channel and wish you many successes.
I learned some stuff. The butchering is what has stopped me so far along with not knowing the regulations. Thank you for sharing.
Hillary looked like a BOSS filling that feed trough with the 5 gallon bucket!
LOL, she's done it thousands of times!
Atleast you are helping ppl and telling them the problems you ran into
Seems you have it well organized & keeping things simple
Can I start by telling you that you are one of the few KZheadrs I watch. It was so refreshing being able to see a fellow 50plus 2nd career farmer on video to inspire my husband and I that it wasn't too late for us. It is wonderful seeing young families with small kids doing the homestead thing but it is quite another seeing someone my age doing it and doing it well. I learn something new each and every video on how to do it better/smarter. What I can't find in your videos though is your chicken processing set up! Our family has done meat birds over the last 3 years so we do not need another video showing how to butcher & clean a chicken. However, the set up that you find works best for you to minimize cramped hands and sore backs would be 100% welcomed. It is physically demanding to say the least. PS the pull bar on that chicken tractor to get the birds to the front - God Send! Those tricks of the trade is what this 55 yo retired ED nurse/city girl and 68 yo retired Resp Therapist from NY - turned farmers - need the most! Keep up the great videos!!
We do a set up like yours for raising the Cornish cross. When we process them we cut up the carcass into pieces then put them individually into shrink bags. Otherwise we were wasting too much meat when we kept them whole.
Pete and Hillary alwys do a great job explaining things, even when he's out cutting the hay on his tractor. They are a great couple. ,
This guy is awesome
Best small farm channel out there ! (and i bet most guys watching are in love with Hillary, ha ha ha) All the best to you both!
This is my first year trying chickens, running two tractors. I'm looking forward to this whole process.
Pete a couple years ago I watched a video for a school assignment and I ended up jeep watching your videos I was always excited for a new video to come out wasn’t a big fan about the winter ones but it is what it is but you inspired me to want to be a small farmer one day and now I have my own Cornish cross broilers and some goats and we are looking to get cows you have inspired my journey and I am only 14 years old
Great video, well done!!! Thanks much
Hello Hillary & Peter. Great video!! Be well.
I love your farm and family. You are a cheerful farmer. Makes me long for my father.
Another great video Pete! Sharing your knowledge along with the neat money saving ideas you’ve learned throughout the years is so kind of you! Your channel is so enjoyable You do such a great job 😀❣
Great videos
Still love your channel. Keep up the channel with your wisdom and insight. Thanks
ALWAYS SOLID INFO ‼️ THANK YOU, Vinny 🇺🇸
You are so easy to listen to and watch and glean information from, thanks Mr. Pete 😃
I love that the tractor looked like nothing but rust and rubber. But it fired right up. There is something to be said for the way things used to be built, and the importance of taking good care of your tools.
Lo felicito,son muy instructivas sus explicaciones.Todos los días veo sus videos como un libro y los repaso todo el tiempo.Gracias es usted muy amable.Saludos a su Señora…..👍🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Watched your farm story and being frugal and the video strating a debt free farm. These videos helped me in something that's been on my mind and I just wanted to say thanks. Also I enjoy your positive attitude it's so refreshing to see some positive. I've been trying to keep myself surrounded by positive people. It helps me stay positive. Thanks again.
Can’t say enough about how valuable your content has been for us! Thanks so much!
THANKS... AWESOME ..... GOOD TO KNOWS... YOUR WORKS. BLESSING... BOTH.... 😇😇😇😇
This is best work and activities to engage yourself in this young age. Thank you guys you are good inspiration for many young ppls like you. Stay blessed
Good info Pete . Unfortunately I do not have a farm like you but I'm living farm life through you and Hillary. Thanks again.
Thanks Pete and Hilary!!!
Another wonderful, informative video! Your videos are a pleasure to watch!
Pete... I wanted to tell you that you've been an inspiration to me over the past year or so. So much so that my wife and I recently purchased 11 acres of pasture and are starting a hay and lavender operation. Thank you!
Congratulations Mike!!
Good video Pete good to see y'all again from Louisiana
As always a great video. Great to see you and Hilarie working together and supporting each other on the farm.
I really enjoy your videos, whenever I see a new one I watch it after I get off work to relax.
Your personality is wonderful!!! Your information is spot on!!! Thank you!!!
There's a lot of work that goes into raising chickens the way you do. I tip my hat to you, having the drive to do this for that many years is impressive. My wife and I did raise some Cornish cross and our first time we only lost a few, but it sure was a lot of work. Thanks Pete, have a great weekend.
I really enjoy the way you answer questions. Straight, to the point, honest and without apology for how you run your farm, but you also give the reason you do things the way you do. Thank you.
Pete you are a great teacher. It is, I think, both your gift and your passion. Good work.
I really enjoy hearing all the birds sing throughout your videos! Thanks for the awesome input!:-)
I'm starting a 100 acre farm. I'm making10 12'x40' skiffs that are essential high tunnels. I took Joel's design and ran with it. I'm including wheels that connect to a pto driven pump to raise and lower them. With modern tech I don't get how people still think the natural way isn't feasible. Thank you for your videos!
Thank you Pet for explaining the housekeeping of your 🐥 chicks. I become more educated when you explaining the public about the daycare of you chickens 🐔
I wish I could like this video twice!
Pete, Wednesday I listened to the fieldwork podcast that had Gabe Ward as a guest and the topic was regenerative farming. The more I listened, the more I thought about your farm and how you use so many of the things they were talking about. It's good to see it in practice so much on your farm.
I really enjoy the videos. So much practical info. We're going up up Joel Salatin's farm Saturday for the Lunatic tour. Been putting lots of things in place to start the chicken tractors out here on our farm. Will have to give the Cornish cross chickens a try. Thanks for taking time to share with us all. Best of everything to you and Hillary.
Thanks for that video Pete. I’m 15 and just bought 20 cornish X birds and plan to sell them. That video really helped
Good for you!
Thanks Pete Very good information. Great job in explaining the importance of small farmers. We need more people like you in this country.
You and Hillary make my day and leave me smiling. I love the science behind your explanations.
The design of the trailer that you moved the chicks with is absolute genius!!!!
another reason to stagger them is air flow. very good video love your channel
I love how helpful you are. Sharing your knowledge along with the neat money saving ideas you’ve learned throughout the years is so kind of you! I am learning so much and am looking to you to learn about meat chickens, housing, etc before I start. Thank you so much. May you and your family be blessed.
Loved this video!
Environment makes a big difference in a lot of things. Thanks for the video Pete 👍
Bought 4 of these from Hilarie, I while back they were amazing! )))
Thank you for sharing your experiences. Cheers, jim
Thanks Pete. You have answered most of my thoughts. Blessings from Ontario 🇨🇦
PETE, HI , I came across this on YT, so I started looking, I grew up in JAMAICA, when it was BWI,, there were some family folks I grew up calling UNCLE&AUNT, there was a dairy farm,80 head, and lots of produce , he supplied a hospital with milk, and provisions , Auntie grew lots of flowers, which were sold at Uncles PRINTERY ,in ST ANNS BAY , then he brought back grass, about 6feet high, put into a mill, for those cows, there were lots of chickens, but most were for the home, I used to churn BUTTER, 1 GALLON CHURN, there was NO ELECTRICITY until the 1950s But I loved being there with the workers , those were the days, I LOVE your programme, explaining as you go, there were 249 acres,NOT ALL FLAT, HILLS TOO , STAY WELL,GOD BLESS 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It's funny, for our poultry fly control we use jars. Then my daughter tries using ordinary fly strips and it's fun to watch the chickens pick the flies right off the strips. My daughter is trying this as an FFA project/experiment. We'll see how this goes. Experimentation I think is key to most enterprises.
I am surprised you would need fly control for chickens. Ours just eat them.
@@JustaFewAcresFarm I know. I would of thought that too. Maybe we should move them a little more often. I don't know.
@@mwilliamshs yeah yeah, sorry I was typing in a hurry. Planting corn to much multitasking. I apologize.
@@mwilliamshs Uncle!!! Uncle!!! I give up!!!
Farmers of the CENTURY no questions about that folks. Mahalo.
Great job explaining these details about chicken farming.
Heros don't always wear a cape .luv u guys you inspire others .
Hello, new subscriber here. Watched your operation for over a year. As a young man, I left the farm as soon as I could but still can't get it out of my mind. The farm had a thousand stories - some hilarious, some poignant, some tragic. A true life experience.
Yes your wife is lovely. ye are a great team!
I’m so glad I found your channel. Learned quite a bit in just this video.
Great video. I really like the waterers that attach to a 5 gallon bucket. I will have to see where I can find some.
1st time watching channel and I am seeing a lot of bright/good ideas/builds around you farm! I like!
As always, Pete, very informative and entertaining video. Thanks.
This was a really great video Pete. Thanks for sharing this. Always helpful content.
Thank you
Awesome video Pete. Thank you for the Q&A segment, very imformative!
You have me so excited to start my small farm!!! Have it, just waiting till warmer weather to move in!