Pastured Poultry Profits - Is A 6 Figure Income Possible?

Pastured Poultry Profits - Is A 6 Figure Income Possible.
Joel Salatin wrote Pastured Poultry Profits almost 30 years ago. At the time, his claim was you could make $25,000 on 20 acres in 6 months. So what are those numbers like today, almost 30 years later?
In this video we are going over our latest pastured poultry numbers including feed conversion, prices for packaged chicken and potential profits. We are talking about how much land it takes to raise chickens and what the profits could be if that were scaled up.
Come along and learn how much profits are possible on 1, 5, 10 and 20 acres with pastured poultry.
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Well the last four years have changed even more quickly. Chicken feed and everything else is so much more now. People have less disposable money too. Had to bail out.

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One of the best video I’ve seen regarding the breakdown of everything. Thank you!

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[@SheratonParkFarms]

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Great job! Very good assessment and apples to apples comparison.

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[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thank you. Appreciate the feedback. Thanks for watching

[@Battlefield2FertileField]

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Best info on this subject I’ve seen. Thanks .

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Good video! Very informative. Thanks !

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. Hope it was helpful.

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[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. Appreciate y’all watching

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Thanks yet again!

[@tylermccurry9554]

I like the intros on your videos. You leave the audience hangin. Good intro chuck

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. I appreciate the feedback. I try hard to give the viewer a good experience. Thanks for watching

[@jamesleejr1626]

Man you and Joel have made me think very hard.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Chickens are a lot of work but they can be profitable!

[@ymdcastro]

do it- do your research and go! we are starting in the spring this year

[@studiomiguel]

Very nice. I just started reading his book and had the same question when reading that opening chapter. Great translation!

[@virnafarm9059]

Another great video we hope to do chickens in our future we have do 60 for our family the past few years.

[@thelocalchap3058]

@sheraton park farms you are a godsend. Love your videos. Easy to follow and understand and to the point. Just purchased 15 acres and going to start a self sustainable lifestyle. We planning on raising chickens, and thanks to you…going to raise some pasture pigs. We’ve started with tilapias and thats doing well. I have so many questions and learning to do…your video makes my life easier. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Greeting from Costa Rica.

[@apw5076]

Thanks for the video. I think it’s important to note that at 20 acres pumping that many birds you are most likely going to saturate your market and your prices would need to decrease as you would run out of demand at those premium prices

[@tonyhurst6544]

I loved your video , I want to quite my construction job and raise chickens . I don't mind hard work .

[@phyzix_phyzix]

Thank you for this video. How are you handling the inspections and food permits?

[@jamesmiles8914]

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[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks! Appreciate ya'll watching!!

[@pnwfarmandgarden]

What a great update to pastured poultry profits! I'll be using your video to help convince my dad to start raising broilers with me!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. Appreciate ya'll watching.

[@joshuaschindler7462]

Hey I enjoyed your video. Appreciate all the numbers and explanations. The part I have not been able to find quite as much info on is what kind of licensing etc. an individual needs to be able to butcher and sell your products at farmers markets or even to restaurants and grocery stores. So if you need content ideas I’d love to hear your thoughts.

[@SoilMatesofGeorgia]

Great job laying out the numbers clearly and concisely. Based on my small layer chicken tractor, the hardest labor was building the tractor. Raising them (for eggs only) has been a breeze. I’m looking forward to trying boilers later. - Alex

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Good deal. Broilers are a lot of fun to raise.

[@KingErnestG3238]

Thank you for this video you have convinced me to keep going with my poultry endeavour...

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Don’t give up! Just one day at a time. Learn the lessons and arrive to improve. Anyone can do this but you gotta keep going. Keep us posted on how you are doing! Appreciate y’all watching

[@nonyanonya6389]

Where do you sell your processed chickens?

[@Judicator37]

I appreciate the breakdown in prices, this is very illuminating. I think more than anything people will struggle with identifying selling opportunity. I mean, assuming a 20 acre farm production - that is a LOT of chicken to move. CSA would be quite the stretch. Unless you struck a deal with a supermarket, which would eat into profits some, it seems that raising the chickens would be easier than selling them. Again, thanks for the video and explanation!

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Thank you, I enjoyed the non-sensationalized production. I have a question about your tractor construction. In one of your videos you have one of your Suscovic tractors made from mostly metal electrical conduit. Can you comment on your thoughts on that construction? Is it lighter, or more durable? Are there any problems with rusting or corrosion of the frames? Maybe you could post a video going over the pros an cons of the different construction methods. Just spitballing here, but maybe the overall size could be increased and keep the weight the same. More birds per structure=less labor per bird.

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[@SheratonParkFarms]

That is awesome! Good luck on your new venture. Keep us posted on how its going. Thanks for watching.

[@YooperCountry]

Wow great video. You process on your property. Do you have to have permits or licenses? Do you have a video about this?

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You are a gem good sir. My husband and I desperately want to try and live a self-sustainable lifestyle and maybe we won't ever get to the point of sellin like ya'll do but the fact you got the figures and that it is possible it does encourage me further to think that we could not only provide good healthy food to our family but be able to fund that blessing to by selling to our community that good healthy food! You got yourself a subscriber out of me :) can't wait to see more of your stuff!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks so much for the kind words. Appreciate y’all watching

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I really enjoy this type of information. Thanks for putting it out.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks Howlinhairy. There is a lot of opportunity out there for folks who don’t mind putting a little sweat into it. Appreciate y’all watching.

[@lydiaann4490]

@ Howlinhairy on the Prairie love this video too, Oh and do they sell eggs too i didn't see that factored in, i definitely want to sell eggs. How are you doing and hope to hear from you?

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@@lydiaann4490 I believe they do.

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[@timlawson817]

Its 2022 and the prices have went crazy so all videos are obsolete when it comes to making money and cost . But you have the best videos I have seen your to the point . Must add the cost that you eat . Becouse if you payed for it from a different job its money made .

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[@jamesa5720]

Great detailed information and thank-you for making the video. But you left out an important detail that I think many of us contemplating larger scale free-range or chicken tractor production on our land wonder...who buys your products and how much more demand is there for it as you substantially increase production potentially?

[@toddcaskey9984]

Good job

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks Todd. Appreciate y’all watching

[@TomiaMacQueen]

Would love an update with post cvid inflation.

[@VisoMoraine]

This is very interesting especially since I have the 20 acres. Plus some. What I would really like to see is more discussion about the marketing side. I am researching, and I find a lot of analysis like yours. But everyone assumes you will sell what you produce. I'm in the southeast. No big mega urban centers. Think Little Rock, Memphis, Jackson, Huntsville size populations. I'd love to hear concrete examples of how you market fresh poultry other than an on-farm store like Joel S.

[@brandonw8760]

Thanks for the information. I feel that chicken farming like this will generate more and more income. Companies like fresh future meats just raised 347 million to make cell-grown meat. naturally raised meat will be like gold.

[@DjTumbao]

nice video thanks for the info , I thing like in everything if you are willing to put all the hard work , is selling the product the most difficult part ?

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As always...Nooice Video! 😎 STOC

[@jamiemelton6527]

Thanks for all your thoughts and time. Great info ! I will say you 100% have to calculate labor in the WHOLE process regardless if it’s yours or anyone else’s. Also storage cost, trips back in forth to market etc. Again well done video 👍🏼

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Great point!

[@hdezoo]

We tried out pastured poultry this year for the first time, and its worked out fantastic. I've been posting videos on my channel and documenting the process. We are selling while birds only so far, and I will be making a video here soon on our numbers. I'm glad you are sharing this.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. Give cut-ups a try and see how that goes. Once we started doing that out sales started to take off. Its just a little more work and you can charge a more premium price for the product. Appreciate ya'll watching!

[@BusinessofGrowth]

Great video Chuck! We raised pastured poultry in NC about 4 years ago using a lot of your concepts. Definitely a tough life, but worth it! Way to document the numbers and show the nuts and bolts of doing this! Just subbed!

[@jmora6529]

What was tough about it, and why did you give it up? (Curious)

[@BusinessofGrowth]

@@jmora6529 it’s a big commitment. Whether it’s cold, raining, or blazing hot, you still have to work with the birds. We didn’t have anyone else who could help, so there was no availabilities to take a vacation or go out of town. We had some financial issues pop up and had to sell the farm. We’re back on some land now though and have some egg layers which we really enjoy.

[@tobywhitney4798]

Great information. We just started raising meat chickens. We have 1 chicken tractor so far. I have the material to build another. The farm to table is just getting to our area. We will see what next year has in store. Thanks again.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Nice! Hang in there and grow your operation and customer base year after year. It’ll grow faster than you think! Appreciate y’all watching

[@jamesjustice859]

What do y'all do in your area during winter? Guessing you get snow.

[@theangryrooster2113]

How hard was it to set up to do the butchering? In other words to become legal? In Florida you are not allowed to butcher for other people without becoming USDA certified. I don't know if you did a video on this or it is even required in NC but would love to see a video on the subject. Enjoyed the video as well straight forward and to the point enjoyed it~

[@cediii6791]

Sounds like fun.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks

[@bubskees0607]

7:10 to 9:10 is when he goes over square footage of the tractors + birds per tractor + acreage to get his profit number.

[@juleswins3]

Or a net of almost $22 per bird?! ($2730/125=$21.84) Whew! That’s amazing.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Yes and it is all about marketing the product to the right customers.

[@Citytohomestead]

This video is great, my question is how do you sell to the public legally? We are In New Jersey and we’ve been trying to figure that part out .

[@growingyourvegetables]

Very nice

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks

[@tillmanfamilyfarm7759]

Just make me excited. We are close to having all our licenses in place. Still have to go before our board of county commissioners. We been feeding ourselves for years. We’ve never made a dime. It’s going to be a long winter getting ready spring!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Nice! Congrats. Hope the application to the BOC goes well.

[@BrendaBodwin]

Potentially. But.. you have to have a buying market, large enough, that is willing to pay those prices.

[@steveboyd5638]

Hey Chuck, great video. Curious on your feed costs per pound? Is this certified organic feed? Keep working hard building your empire not the other way around, thanks

[@zeke1eod]

The big thing is having a place or way to sell items produced, investment up front I think would be recovered especially if you mixed it up with turkey! Awesome video, thanks for sharing! God bless

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Yes, exactly

[@jenniferpriest1881]

How do you get electric heat lamps inside of your mobile chicken tractors?

[@lifeathand1062]

Great info. I'm looking to get out of the weekly grind and I've been selling hogs on foot at 350lbs And fresh eggs but I want to do more I'm a little short on property

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thank you. Hope it was helpful. Appreciate ya'll watching.

[@richardsutherland6417]

Need a market.

[@blackranch7883]

Inflations a MOTHER! great video. Starting my operation next month :D

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Nice. Keep us posted on how it goes. Thanks for watching

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It's ARTIFICIAL INFLATION, thank the Fed.

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[@josephshank1217]

Thanks for all the great content you are putting out! I live in Michigan and am currently working on finding property to lease to start raising both, pasture Hogs and Chickens. One of my biggest set backs is trying to make sure I have somewhere to sell them when they are ready. Thinking about putting in the money to start the operation and not being able to sell everything can be overwhelming. what are the best ways to market your product and who to sell to?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Start marketing before you ever get the first animal on your farm. Get folks excited about your farm, how you are raising animals, building soil and producing a quality product. Get your website up and going, its amazingly cheap and easy to do these days and it adds legitimacy to your business. Let all your family and friends know what you are doing and get them on board as cheerleaders and to help spread the word. Marketing is tough and it something that requires constant maintenance but you can certainly do it!

[@susanrowland4303]

Maybe I missed something but did you factor in multiplying those numbers by 3 to factor 6 months instead of just 2?

[@DickyBenfield]

Another great video. Thanks for making these. You nailed it there toward the end. That was based on one pass. Even if you didn't start a new batch until you processed the last batch, a 6 or especially an 8 week recovery period should be more than enough. I would think most people in most places could probably get through at least 3 if not 4 rotations per year at 8 weeks? Btw, I'm curious, Dr Ken Anderson (the NC State University poultry science professor and extension specialist) suggests a 4-week rest, but his arrangement is much different. He provides 30 sq ft per bird for 28 days and rotates back and forth between two paddocks. He does 4 weeks on and 4 weeks rest. They also go from whichever paddock they are in, back to a central coop at night, so they are not sleeping and thus pooping/peeing at night in the paddock. So I would think that may have the advantage of recovering quicker, but that may not be true? Compared to his 28 days in his setup, how long would you say it takes the spot a chicken tractor was sitting to recover from the time you move it off?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

The recommendation is that you only do one pass on a spot once per year due to nitrogen load. The soil can only absorb so much nitrogen and any excess with be washed off (potentially contaminating ground water). So we intentionally only go over a spot one time per year. Our per square foot works out to 2.4 square foot per day so he is stocking a little more dense than we are. I've also noticed that the manure load can get heavy during the day and isn't restricted to night time which is another reason for the daily moves. We can see an improvement in the ground they come off of in as little as 3 days with no sign of manure on a spot within about 2 weeks or so.

[@hydermountainfarm845]

When I get started in this do I need to get inspected prior to selling or can I sell and just keep the records in case I get inspected

[@budhames5254]

I love the 15 minute video but would love to see a whole day!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Interesting idea. A full day live stream. Let me think on that one.

[@webstuff56]

I think you did a great job rehashing the numbers--back of a napkin kinda math. I've been going through the numbers and processes of both John Suscovich and Joel's. A few comments and questions, please. When you say you process them-- does that mean you do the slaughter house stuff? Or another way: I guess you do the killing, cleaning, packaging etc yourself? In my reasearch, I find that there is no way to make money on chickens if you send the out for processing and packing. In fact, it seems to me the only way to every recoup your fixed investment and to make a meager tiny margin at all would be to do all the processing and packaging yourself and do it in such tremendous volumn that it would make trying to do your own processing a full-time job. Even with that you'd have to be salesman of the century to being able to go direct to retail with that volumn. John Suscovich uses $24 per chix as his sale per chicken-- I do not know where on God's good earth you could sell a 4-6 lb chicken for $24. I have unfortunitly come to the conclusion thatand chickens I raise would be for personal consumption only by going out the the coup and pulling one out to east that night. The only way I could see perhaps barely making a penny out of this business is to buy your initial batch with the intent to build out and to complement the meat business with breeding your own inputs and having a large egg producing operation--to produce your chicks and to sell eggs. To keep growning that until you can matach in scale a Hugh operationof meat chicks. Hmmp!

[@scottyarellano]

What feed are you using? Non GMO, Organic, Conventional?

[@jimmyjolly4184]

Did you count packaging cost, cost to operate freezers , cost of chicken tractors or other hidden cost

[@45gajpm]

I live in Georgia and would need several different state licenses to raise and sell the food chickens. Have you calculated that expense in.

[@limaelima1]

hello, it's okay I'm here from Brazil with you have a website that sells this book that you showed I found it interesting

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Yes. amzn.to/2PudhVo

[@PaulBPerkins]

Thanks for your video. Interested in doing this in Central Florida but curious how you sell your chicken? How/where do you find buyers of the finished product? Are there any USDA food safety inspections that are required?

[@Crystal-hy6oc]

Great question I wonder too!

[@msanford75]

Just came across your videos we are also in North Carolina Eastern nc. We are just before starting to raise pigs . What would you recommend as a good number to start with? They will free range in the woods we want them to clear some woods out for us , then sell for slaughter .

[@bburke]

Hi Chuck, been watching for a while. I'm just down the road from you in PG. I would love to come help (to learn) next processing day if there is an opportunity.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Be glad for you to come out. I’ll message you on Facebook and let you know the date. Thanks!

[@robertwilkinson8115]

Sorry, I'm confused. What is the recovery time for each tractor position used?

[@KyJack13]

Great video. Sub’d

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks

[@hahailikecows23]

Thanks for all of the info! Is it possible to make any kind of profit on just 4 chickens? It’s all I’m allowed living in basically the city here on 1 acre.

[@scottyarellano]

Would you agree with the 500 birds per acre per year in regards to the amount of fertilization on acre can handle? I believe that was Joels number from the book but dont have it handy. From your numbers, that would only allow one pass, 125 per 1/4. Still great numbers but curious if you have tried two passes? Overall, excellent video. I still think this the best opportunity for beginners and something I am going to pursue next year.

[@TheLloyz]

This is the video i was needing to see right now, about to start a 122 acre gig, it's scary. Oh and do you sell eggs too i didn't see that factored in, i definitely want to sell eggs.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

That’s awesome! You have an exciting time ahead! We do sell eggs but that wasn’t factored into those numbers. Eggs are really a “break even” proposition for us. I think you can make money on eggs at a certain scale but we aren’t there yet. Keep me posted! Would love to hear how things go for y’all. Appreciate y’all watching.

[@woosddotcom]

How many times in a year can you reuse the ground? Could you do 4 cycles on 5 acres to get the same numbers? I’ve heard too much nitrogen builds up and will kill the grass.