by Richard | Sep 30, 2020 | Animal Enterprises
Last week I put out a video asking you to send in photos of your Ridgedale-style egg mobile. Here are the first 50 that I received, representing 20 countries on 4 continents – enjoy. Are you planning to build one? Join the conversation in the comments below....
by Richard | Jul 7, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
In order for an enterprise to be succesful, all workflows must be set up to be performed as quickly as possible. And so to have our pastured broiler enterprise be as profitable as possible, we’ve not only built our own on-farm slaughter facility but also carefully...
by Richard | Jul 6, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
This year chicken slaughter has been planned around when I’d be on the farm, as I was supposed to spend most of the season on the road, touring Europe to document the reg ag scene. That means we get a bigger difference in weight than usually, but because we have...
by Richard | Jun 16, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
Today is a quick video documenting the very first move of 500 broilers in our roller pens. These birds are around 35 days old, so used to daily moves in Salatin pens, but I thought you might like to see what their first move in a strange new configuration was like: it...
by Richard | Jun 5, 2020 | Animal Enterprises
We’ve built our own low-cost roll away nest boxes that we use in our egg-mobiles in the summer and in the polytunnel during winter. I’ve had a lot of questions about how they’re made, so I dug into the archive to find footage of the construction process and give you...
by Richard | May 26, 2020 | Animal Enterprises, Farm Updates
Today we’re smoking this year’s first batch of chickens. Smoking is a process that needs precision, and you’ll have to work out the particulars for your setup trough trial. We first learnt from a local with 50+ years of experience and you can find an...
