Pastured Poultry Profit$

After reading You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise by Joel Salatin, reading this book was a must in our endeavour to raise our own chickens for meat. The book is basically a manual on how to raise your own meat chickens in a free range environment. It st......more

There are so many prophets trying to guilt Americans into being green. Joel Salatin is not one of them. His points are clear, well researched through experience, and accurate. It is shameful that laziness and big commercial production gets the nod from so many government-dependent food-ignorant citi......more

In Pastured Poultry Profits, Joel Salatin lays out the model that Virginia's Polyface Farm uses for pasture-raised broilers, as well as thoughts on raising layers (as of 1999, they hadn't settled on a production model, though they had quite a few thoughts on the matter). Salatin's goal for himself--......more

Ohhhhh Joel Salatin. I’ve read one of his books before so I knew what to expect as far as his philosophies and beliefs go, and while I do share many of his philosophies about farming and have seen success in implementing his practices, I wish he would keep his personal beliefs out of his publication......more

This is the Bible for growing pastured poultry, and although it is a bit dated, it holds up extremely well. In fact, there are several people I know who are viably running his strategy to the letter. This book will tell you everything, from breed, to feed, to coup, to slaughter. Combine this with a......more