Eggmobile - Pastured Eggs vs Conventional

Here is a tour of our eggmobile showing how we raise our pastured egg layers out on the grass and not in a confinement egg operation. We show how we basically constructed our diy egg-mobile and have put it in use on our farm with our chickens. We try to answer the question, what's an eggmobile?
This structure is key to our egg production and helps us produce healthy eggs. We have taken many of our farming priciples from Joel Salatin and Polyface Farm. We also briefly show our John Suscovich Chicken Tractor in the video. While our chickens are not free range, they do have a wide area of grass and pasture to forage and eat a health natural diet.
There are a lot of different egg mobiles in use all across the country and this is just our version.
Enjoy!
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We practice sustainable agriculture on our farm by using multi-species to build soil and fertilize the ground. We have pastured chickens, grass fed lamb, pastured turkey, farm fresh duck eggs and chicken eggs.
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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[@fishonbaby7408]

Love this invention, Chuck! What kind of hardware did you use to secure the walls of the coop to the metal frame?

[@dfishman76]

I was thinking about doing cedar fence pickets for our floor.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

That would work.

[@dfishman76]

@ just sent a message to a local guy might just do it in rough cut lumber. Maybe pine or poplar. Doing the flooring so it will be easy to replace the pieces as needed. Hope yall are doing good. Glad yall did not have much damage from the hurricane. Just got to figure out the nest boxes. I do think I am going to have onboard water storage

[@sherilcarey7100]

Well I haven't left many comments whilst just trying to learn a few things. But I sure do appreciate you sharing your journey with us!

[@dfishman76]

I have got to get started on building one of these

[@LilacDaisy2]

I just got a little single axle boat trailer, so I loved that you mentioned them!

[@RehoKevin]

Great video Chuck, thanks. I'll be moving to a more rural property soon and will be expanding my chicken flock to at least 100 birds. Looking forward to rotating them on pasture and having a nice little income stream in retirement. I have a 5'X10' heavy landscape trailer that I plan to build out into a mobile coop using your design. I may have a guard goose or an LGD out with the birds to minimize predator pressure. I appreciate you sharing your coop design as I wasn't quite sure how I would build mine, but I like your set up and will use it as a template in building mine. Thanks again for this and all of your informative videos.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Kevin Watkins man that’s awesome!! Chickens are a lot of fun to care for. Glad the video was helpful. That landscape trailer will work great. We have an LGD in with our sheep but have heard they work great with chickens too. Appreciate y’all watching.

[@kurthansen3447]

Just found your channel, love the video's, I'm from Iowa just getting started on raising some livestock, getting great ideas! Thanks for doing the video's

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks for the feedback. Good luck on your farm. Keep us posted. Appreciate y’all watching

[@johnnyporter3487]

Great video as always! I love how informative each of your videos are. How often do you move them, about once a week or do you just judge the condition of the landscape knowing it’s time to move to a new area? Thanks again for all the great content!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. We move the egg chickens about once per week. Sometimes quicker, sometimes not as quick.

[@richardmatthys7133]

How do you keep them from sleeping in the egg boxes?

[@pineywoodsfarmranch6693]

You mentioned you don’t let your chickens sleep in the nesting boxes which makes good since. Mine do when it gets colder. How do you prevent them/train them not to do that? Some of those style nesting boxes have perches that fold up to keep them out. Is that what you use? Love your videos and all the detail.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Yes sir, our have the flip up roosting bars. Flip them up when we get eggs at night and open up first thing in the morning a little bit of work but it’s worth it. Thanks for watching

[@jjime1175]

If you tie all the bars together and put it on a rope to pull it close at night then no need to go inside, I also have a bungee cord that pulls them down when I release the rope on the outside so again no need to go inside in the morning. A solar powered door closer also means no need to close them up at night just collect eggs in evening

[@michaelmcnair1880]

I just watched your market video from 11-24-2020 and I'm wondering what you do with all the eggs between November and April when you are not going to the market? I realize egg production really slows in the winter but im sure you still get quite a few with 100 layers.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

We continue to sell eggs through the winter. If we have extra sometimes they go to the pigs, we've given some to food ministries and we eat A LOT! haha. Thanks for watching.

[@Josh-nq6lh]

Really enjoyed your video. How much of a problem are aerial predators? I am up in Virginia and we have our fair share of hawks and the occasional bald eagle. I worry about those types of birds of prey taking advantage of hens out in the open....

[@SheratonParkFarms]

So we do have an occasional hawk take out a bird. Try to temper that by giving them some cover like trees or brush when we can. I’ll lose maybe 3-4 birds per year but feel it’s more important that they are outside as opposed to being confined. Appreciate you watching. Where in Virginia??

[@Josh-nq6lh]

@@SheratonParkFarms Thanks for the reply! I'm up here in Gloucester, near Williamsburg.

[@wileymacknally7999]

The best defense I have found against aerial predators has been a mountain cur squirrel dog. I use to have about 100 chickens plus a few ducks that were 100% free range and never lost a single bird to a predator, unless you count a speeding car a predator. Those dogs were use to looking up for squirrels and I can’t count the number of times I saw them chase flying hawks.

[@tcook564]

I would use that other trailer put expanded metal for a floor the use 3 ft pig panels for sides then you have a perfect pig transfer wagon. That would work great.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Great idea. We can call it the "weaner wagon" for moving weaned piglets. Thanks for watching.

[@LilacDaisy2]

10:30 - Oh, that's an open door to the pythons around here to strangle the girls to death, even if they're too big to swallow. We haven't had chooks for a few years, and we don't miss the snakes coming around. Going to need a cattle dog to feel safe when we move to the acreage.