Joel Salatin's chickens and rabbits at Polyface Farm

[@Dee.C]

I love Joel Salatin . When he talks it gets my attention and amazes me .

[@leobrooks94]

The most annoying thing is his stutter and, when with Joe Rogan, his errant aggression. I think he was intimidated by the whole experience, and Joe.

[@coolHandLuke5150]

At heart he is a motivational speaker

[@susangichuhi]

I'm excited to see this because I have been looking for a chicken and rabbit living together idea. I love it.

[@leobrooks94]

What else would you like to see?

[@ppac300]

I thought parasites in chicken causes mange in rabbits.

[@Asdfbedffhdsxe345]

I’ve just learned more in my life than from any other source!!! Bravo!!! Regards from England

[@leobrooks94]

Wales here

[@Tony7534]

@@leobrooks94 Brit in Azerbaijan Lol

[@leobrooks94]

@@Tony7534 I'm in Morocco now. I don't intend to go back to the west anytime soon

[@ritcheymt]

11:50 with regards to combining chickens and rabbits in a building to produce eggs and rabbits for meat, "That's $32,500 in a 500 square foot garage." Wow.

[@fh2926]

It's not $32,500 from a 500 square foot garage. Each litter of rabbits, when weaned, go out on the grass in the rabbit shelters for six weeks. You need to add in about three acres of pasture plus some feed to make the equation work. We also didn't hear a thing about input costs or yields for the pigs, who complete the compost cycle. Still, it's remarkably efficient to produce eggs, meat and compost in a single building like this. Plus, it can be scaled down to feed a homestead and produce a side income!

[@saraherwin416]

This man can do math quicker than a calculator

[@waltergreenwood3741]

Hes my age, we can all do that. We got an education when we went to school

[@saraherwin416]

@@waltergreenwood3741 and yet your response contains a grammatical error 🤔

[@leobrooks94]

@@waltergreenwood3741 school is slave indoctrination and zombification. By design.

[@soronos8586]

He talks about it so often he knows all the numbers already. He likes to make a good show of it but he’s just having fun with the listener with a cheap parlor trick 😂

[@sgakla]

If you edit enough, everyone looks like a genius.

[@GunClingingPalin]

Bob's Stocking Herbivorous Solar Conversion Lignified Carbon Sequestration Fertilization

[@tmach58]

Joel's a genius. I just love hearing him explain his farming skills and experience thank you

[@leobrooks94]

It’s a lot clearer without the stuttering. I wonder what video I should clip down next…

[@mrsp5713]

Thank you for highlighting this for us. Very helpful and an intriguing priceless treasure bank of knowledge and experience…wow. Thank you again.

[@leobrooks94]

When I Googled "Polyface Designs" I got a Amazon UK link.

[@kokeskokeskokes]

Thank you. The dolley should have 4 wheels. As it is it acts like sledges. I really like the woodchips idea. In here it will cost me about 1000 euros per season, and I have no loader. But I can add earthworms in it, which chicken will dig for and eat, and Oyster mushroom mycelium which earthworms will eat, and mycelium will eat feces and urine of everything. Me included.

[@mikefetterman6782]

We had a very similar set up for chickens on our farm in the 60s and 70s.

[@kimberli2391]

Just great systems, if you have the kind of grassy somewhat level land you can pull on. We who live on dry, steep property just watch in jealous amazement. ☺️ We raise our meat birds on deep bedding very early in the year, harvesting all batches, hopefully, before the heat comes in June. Everyone has to adapt to their climate to make it work. 🐥🐥🐥🐥

[@leobrooks94]

I am glad that those who live and work on the land are watching these videos and finding value in doing so. 🙏

[@ldon7319]

Exactly. we live in Southern Arizona. There is no pasture like these without constant and massive irrigation, not to mention very expensive land. We're still trying, and making it work little bits at a time, but i don't know how you could fail in a place like missouri where the water is free from the heavens. lol

[@zacharyharris6311]

When I saw Justin Rhodes I thought I was going to have to skip through 15 minutes of nonsense before getting to 2 minutes of information. This entire video was beneficial to watch. Thanks for the share!

[@leobrooks94]

Thanks, this is precisely the sort of feedback I like! I more purposed these videos to be for those who are fresh to the reg ag subject, through the other videos I have cut and uploaded to the channel.

[@leobrooks94]

But your feedback is from a different group, but you articulate the frustration I have with all this great education that’s available. It is hyper packed with narcissism.

[@zacharyharris6311]

@@leobrooks94 indeed it is littered with narcissism. There are so many glam-homestead channels out there atm that are the top suggestions from the YT algorithm. I've just been disliking their videos and telling YT I'm not interested anytime the algorithm suggests them again. Eventually channels like yours started popping up in my feed. Thanks again for the content!

[@Drisdelle09]

@@zacharyharris6311 I can’t imagine myself complaining about free education.

[@SuperMrgentleman]

@@Drisdelle09 honestly if you're actually trying to learn this to do on your own it's terrible to try and wade through an hour of lifestyle stuff for three minutes of actual details

[@russellwhite8890]

My granddad in New Hampshire raised rabbits and dressed them and sold them to the public out of his garage.

[@SapdaWildLife]

I love animals. I always watch the videos. I always enjoy it. Thanks sharing this video. ❤️

[@Dr.ArielArik]

Watching is IMPOSSIBLE! It kills the exes with all those cuts

[@NPCmechanic]

As a guy who has followed Joel for along time, i appreciate the removal of all umms and ahhhs. Great work man 😄

[@leobrooks94]

People don't appreciate how much of a time waste the editing was, in the context of there being AI which does it.

[@ppac300]

@@leobrooks94 huh?

[@breesechick]

THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE UMMMS AHHHHS AND SPACES OUT 💖💖💖

[@leobrooks94]

Awomen!

[@jaysonscaccia3188]

This is gold

[@judysears6417]

AndJoe....that is ALOT, too many, chickens under those things!!

[@nikburton9264]

I used to deliver meat chicks to Polyface for Ridgeway Hatcheries. It was really something to see.

[@propheticguy]

25 per rabbit, that is a lot, i would not pay that much.

[@uftc1324]

That's cheap for rabbit buddy. Good luck finding any quality rabbit meat for less than that

[@JamesCurtis-sf7pf]

​@@uftc1324 we sell them for 12$ butchered here in Oklahoma , and they are not fast sellers at 12$ just reality , we also sale our farm eggs for 2.50$ dzn thats just the market here

[@Gnolomweb]

@@uftc1324 Rabbits are free in the back yard buddy

[@Gnolomweb]

$15 for a chicken too? wtf that's robbery. WHO THE FUK is paying that? I WANT TO KNOW how to sell a chicken for $15, THAT's the skill there~!

[@uftc1324]

@@Gnolomweb also illegal most places, bud.

[@PineRidgeHomestead]

Love watching videos of Polyface farm

[@Aermydach]

Of course Joel would say labour is free. That's what all of those volunteers and interns are for!

[@leobrooks94]

It's called society. Feed them. Make life nice.

[@brockdyncatron3775]

Labor is always free on a hobby farm😂

[@cathyjohnson6733]

Look at that gorgeous soil!! That's green!

[@Reutzel507]

I made mine out of steel and powder coated it. Then I use my skid loader with forks.

[@christineparker7185]

Plus it leaves a hole in the aluminium big enough to let a mink in and what looked the chickens out....😂😂😂😂

[@patrickayissiayissi5582]

Fantastic video 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽this system will really help me in Cameroon 🇨🇲. Thank you very much for sharing 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@leobrooks94]

Thanks to Joel and Justin. I did the easy (and boring) bit or cutting out the unneeded video. I will make more videos like this as it is so popular.

[@MistressOP]

thank you. so muchh low key. I couldn't watch this orginally.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@safdarpoultryfarming5438]

amazing free range farming

[@steveabbott6979]

The editing driving me nuts

[@leobrooks94]

Haha. I will try make it more natural… I will keep to the method of taking time out. Maybe being less liberal with the degree of minuteness of spaces I remove… more gaps between words not edited out is another way to say it.

[@theoe3097]

Where are you located

[@tlochili4609]

Who are these people paying $25 per rabbit to eat??? Not in my neck of the woods.

[@templeprogramming4982]

Online they go for $40, and probably have a bigger market now because of immigrants. Near a city it's easier to sell for more because it's nothing for the tech workers. He also is able to sell like that because of all the farm tours and sampling he does, people are more invested after those than if they were just price comparing in the supermarket.

[@LoganBrown-x8t]

They breed them some show them for 4-H

[@growingskyes5327]

The asian market in plano texas has them for $ 25-$35 each

[@user-vq4mt4zd4e]

great content thanks

[@theodorelease8477]

Who in the heck pays these prices? No one around me would even think about paying that much. Where I live your birds and rabbits have to be USDA inspected to sell.

[@templeprogramming4982]

No they don't, under 20k a year they can both (chickens and rabbits) be sold under PL 90-492. No USDA inspector on site required, but they will come check to see if your setup is sanitary at some point. Salatin goes way above that these days so he invested in a community slaughterhouse to get a better quality butcher than the USDA facilities.

[@michaletaylor7532]

Just watching this, I was wondering where to put my bunnies, and I have a chicken/ fowl space! To put them together and have my chickens do my work for me‽‽ yyyyyeeeessss!!!!

[@johncourtneidge]

Thank-you.

[@bibbkennelsgamedogs8733]

Coyotes chew threw chicken wire

[@breesechick]

That's why he's running a hot electric fence around it.

[@templeprogramming4982]

In one of his books he said once in a long while a coyote will get under a tractor and kill all the chickens. He says he would sleep on a haybale and shoot it when it shows up in the night. The electric netting is probably a stronger deterrent, this was in reference to the undefended tractors

[@leelindsay5618]

Joel mentions Cargill, but he doesn't mention the monopoly of it and the exploitation of the individual farmer family.

[@LHfarm]

I like farming .

[@loganpostle7162]

I love all this information but how do you go about selling all this to reach these numbers? How do you find a market to move all of the product?

[@mr.skeptical3071]

The feed bill is gonna wipe u out. Trust me

[@lori8861]

I could listen to Joel everyday & everyday learn something new. My question would be how/where do you find a market for the animals/birds that you raise?

[@ACDC5]

I just saw him on Food Inc, Pluto TV. This guy knows what he's talking about, he gets it and I have a degree in food and nutrition.

[@leobrooks94]

Talk to people.

[@brianchristman2598]

The trick is to get pre-orders, so you have them sold before you even order chicks. (obviously this is not possible all of the time, but when you're just starting out, it's a nice goal).

[@annejennings8568]

Unfortunately my land is not flat

[@mickielliott3392]

Can I start building my pasture before I get livestock I have 60 acers paid for and will be debt free in 2 years and plan on starting in 2 yrs I have poor pasture now I have sent for soil test kit and will have that soon

[@jenniferbunker2757]

How do you know what animals follow what animals? We have 8 goats, 2 horses, kune kune pigs, chickens, rabbits. How big does each pen need to be ? How often do i move everyone? How many days do they all need to be off the first pen you started on?

[@jay-rus4437]

Man, this really has me thinking. We bought 5 acres last year. Currently building 2 acres into self storage, boat and rv parking. That will be done in the next 60 days. We built a coop and run, and just got our first 15 chicks. Im really at a point in life that I want to stay on property and earn our living. We own a small construction business, but hope to begin scaling that down. We want a simpler life, so looking for the right opportunities to create income on this property. Would really love to have some more info on the income creating process.

[@timothymcdaniel2018]

Build the recourses, to build the life. I feel exaclty the same!

[@bluesman97]

15 bucks a chicken is not affordable for most.

[@leobrooks94]

Maybe not most… the thing is rent. Rent without welfare guts the individual. Rent with welfare guts everyone. Different demographic representation spreads.

[@AnhNguyen-hn9vj]

people do buy 15 bucks a chicken if it is walking chicken (continuously walking in a large area all day) and not chicken in confinement. Walking chickens are tasting a lot better, the meat is more define, tighter and better, less fat, and more healthy i think but it may cost more to feed these chickens unless you find free natural food supplement to help with the feeding.

[@jerryjohnson1463]

Did he $15 per chicken? Wow!

[@templeprogramming4982]

It's affordable for everyone, it's a matter of priorities. It's cheaper per pound than chips, prepackaged meals, or fast food. A $10 chicken at the supermarket still tastes like a swimming pool. Salatin is a good marketer, that's why he does the farm tours so people can see and taste the animals. Parents who care about their kids health will be willing to pay for this. To a white collar worker, prices like these don't make a dent in their expenses. It's all about finding the niche in the market which Salatin does very well.

[@jenniferbunker2757]

Where can you learn how to make that lifter to move the pens ?

[@Idiopathogen]

I would be curious to know he he prevents coccidia/emeria parasites in the rabbits. I did this once years ago and lost half the rabbits due to that parasite.

[@flybyav8tor]

What’s killing me is the cost of organic corn & soy free grower feed. Cheapest I can buy (1/2 & 1 tote) and grow a bird is $12.88 if everything goes right.

[@arielcarol3113]

The only off thing to me is that the rabbits (who naturally live on the ground in burrows) are up in cages. And, the chickens don't have any place to roost!

[@leobrooks94]

Awomen to that, sister! Those rabbits!

[@Thomaslittlefarm]

Very smart farmer very informative video for new farmers 😊

[@glennnile7918]

One of the basic misconceptions in today's world is: It is a tool is not a solution. It is very important but it is a tool not a solution.

[@HelenEk7]

So.-.. you could build the little tractors and also use them for chickens... But perhaps then have them more open at the bottom since they dont dig.

[@breesechick]

Chicken owner here. Chickens love to dig, create holes and take dust baths and coyotes and raccoons dig under and will kill your flock. I built a hardware cloth floor and used stainless steel zip ties to attach it to the bottom of my coop.

[@jenniferbunker2757]

For the rabbits what about fleas, mites, ext being on the ground

[@ConsiderationFarm]

great video. Joel is the best. Thanks.

[@PaleoKids]

Great job cutting this down to under 20 minutes! After watching the original version of this video months ago, I tried to find aluminum roofing panels. No luck. Any advice?

[@leobrooks94]

Eyy!! Thankyou. It’s nice to have this stuff verbally recognised. Took ages! Not too bad though. I was in crisis mode and this was my therapy. Special thanks to MacBook Pro Touch Bar.

[@leobrooks94]

Also, no. I am not a farmer or practically trained person… Much better with ideas and people than things. Will get good at things.

[@breesechick]

@@leobrooks94 Thank you for this edit 🌄 it's brilliant!

[@fenwelder2474]

so much sense.

[@theresavanduzer3459]

I live in Florida and it rains daily in the summer. Is that a problem with pasture rabbits?

[@busker153]

Can I do a chicken tractor for layers? Without going full on millennium version?

[@Gnolomweb]

3:30 WHO THE FK PAYS $15 FOR A WHOLE CHICKEN?!

[@RileyPatterson-bf8ge]

Very cut up lmao

[@Finchersfarmstead]

I'm just learning n Joel says you put the buck into the does cage I heard b4 the opposite....whst do yall do?

[@cocopella]

Who pays $15 for a chicken ??

[@templeprogramming4982]

Parents. Salatin is a good marketer, why do you think he allows visitors 24/7?

[@WhatDadIsUpTo]

Who pays $15 a chicken? Me. @ $15 for a hen already laying - buddy, that's a steal. Don't believe me? Try raising chickens from a warm egg through to laying an egg a day, and then we'll compare notes!

[@rebeccalankford8573]

Who do you sell to?

[@djja8844]

Too bad you cant shear the rabbits and get milk or eggs so that you could let the rabbits live or sell as pets. If salatin sees this, then he'll soon start selling Angora steaks.

[@danielwaguespack4301]

How and where you sell your chickens

[@breesechick]

He sells retail in his store, restaurants and direct to consumer.

[@bkestler1]

But what is the feed cost, maintenance, employees, etc. he’s talking gross not net. The numbers sound good before any expenses.

[@nekomancer9157]

~9:55 three enterprises, if you include compost

[@ElDuardo01]

Wonderful video! What are those big books at the end of it?

[@caradu9973]

Where do you get the aluminum panels nobody seems to have them

[@mountainloversoff-grid155]

Would this be practicle in the high desert in Arizona?

[@gayleschneider8080]

What is the fencing called that the Australians were talking about?

[@memebro3181]

What's the name of the book in the end of video? Can I buy it online?

[@juliocolobrado6430]

love he info ♥️♥️

[@maheritani717]

How can i buy the book showed towards the end of the video?

[@jeffclayton1397]

How do you keep the chickens off the cages?

[@rosablume4346]

he certainly is inventive what I wonder: what breed of chicken are those, they look like they do not have tail feathers. that is not good, if it is genetics. they are often handicapped with their movement by the weird skeletton. And rabbits on the wire surface is not ok for them, they have a species spefific need to dig in the soil

[@sergeidominiquepantejo9773]

May we ask how much and how can we order the Million dollar BOOK ??

[@johnsmith-bk4ps]

Sinners eating dirty food

[@LloydieP]

You seem like a decent person. 🤣

[@aquariusmoon771]

Poor little chickens.

[@colsonscribner9995]

and poor bunnies 😢

[@templeprogramming4982]

Those chickens and rabbits have no thoughts in their head other than whether they are physically able to scratch or eat a snack. I did colony rabbits and the breeding does just want to sleep in a corner anyway and don't use the space, it's the babies that really appreciate the exploring and Salatin puts those in the rabbit tractors.

[@parkburrets4054]

How do you start the chicken pen movement? One end has moved several days and the other has just started.

[@nickwiebe8548]

You get chicks delivered a day or two apart and put them in pens when they're at that stage. Or if your chick deliveries are weekly you could just put the next pen with the first so you're not walking across your property to move, feed and water.

[@cutedollcute9901]

So good 👍👍

[@leobrooks94]

Cheers 👍🏻

[@QweetWitFo]

how do you guys find buyers

[@sarmadnajim4839]

Smart

[@Finchersfarmstead]

So you can do on a concrete floor with wood chips?

[@brad238899]

I like it all but i dont understand how he avoids pedations from eagles, hawks or owls with just electric netting.

[@templeprogramming4982]

In one of his books he says he slept in a hay bale to shoot a coyote. In other videos I've seen great pyrenes and protection geese. I find that hawks often refuse to go to the ground anywhere they see a human or a dog, or perhaps his losses are negligible at that scale.

[@babak4952]

So the chickens never eat bugs? How does this work? Is this considered not organic?

[@LME8754]

Whats the book called please

[@sherrycraft6557]

WOW!!!!!!

[@jenniferbunker2757]

Where can I get the book ?

[@tdewtx]

yep he is stealing it I am going to report him to Justin. I watched this when Justin Did it.

[@taddscoins1130]

Where can you buy those books at the end?

[@theresavanduzer3459]

Where can you get plans to build one of these?

[@breesechick]

Polyface designs. I bought it. They're about $90 for that book

[@theresavanduzer3459]

@@breesechick I bout that since I asked that question. Thank you.

[@nwestark]

This guys math is on spot but where the hell are you getting $5 a dozen for eggs?

[@templeprogramming4982]

A dozen "pasture" eggs (the legal minimum grass time per year) at the supermarket goes for $7.50 right now. He's selling a higher quality product so he doesn't have to go down to $3 a dozen like battery raised hens

[@templeprogramming4982]

Think about all the tired office workers with a lot to spend. Most people are not stretching their dollar like farmers do.

[@EduardoMunoz-ye3nr]

Do rabbits at the racken house ever leave their cages?

[@Finchersfarmstead]

What tool is that to move the tractors?

[@vanwhalen3719]

Wow !

[@jhonmartillo]

What are the difference between the white chickens at the shelter and the brown ones?

[@johnscott2076]

White meat chicken Brown lay brown eggs

[@Jimmy-mx4cc]

Jay listen the this old guy .and the $$$ per acer of land its $7500 a year .

[@peregrinote]

Do you go through and manually remove the phatics, ungainful speech, uhms and ahhs, stutters and wasted space, or is there some software that can do that?

[@leobrooks94]

I’ve been told there’s software you can feed examples to and it will learn what to take out. But I do it all manually. The art is in making the process of making it and the listening of the finished product as bearable as possible. A central dao is to keep attention by not providing any information that is not relevant. Keep it interesting. Get the message out and embedded.

[@novampires223]

Very good job.. thank you, I tune many videos out cuz too slow.