4-DAY PASTURED POULTRY TRAINING
Join pioneering farmer and educator Richard Perkins for an information-dense intensive aimed at getting started on the right foot with profitable pastured poultry.
This intensive training focuses on all aspects of designing, planning, installing and managing pastured layers, broilers and turkeys.
Pastured poultry remain an important consideration for small farmers for many reasons.
The ecosystem services are very significant due to the relative amounts of animals we can keep on smaller tracts compared with other livestock.
Easy to handle and easy to scale, these are fantastic gateway enterprises to get people started profitably in their farming operations.
We find they are easily scaled to other sites, climates and contexts.
Dozens of our past students have gone from this training to start their own pastured poultry businesses.
CORE ELEMENTS
PASTURED LAYERS
Why pasture-raised?
Constructing egg mobiles
Starting a flock
Egg data collection
Planning the enterprise
Feed regimes
Working with the cash flow
Winter housing
Managing for health and well-being
Constructing an egg packing facility
Regulations and legal aspects
Fencing and watering options
Predator considerations
Sales and marketing
PASTURED BROILERS AND TURKEYS
Why pasture-raised?
Constructing field pens
Constructing a brooder
Feed regimes
Planning the enterprise
Working with the cash flow
Managing for health and wellbeing
Constructing a slaughter facility
Regulations and legal aspects
Managing the slaughter process
Fencing and watering options
Predator considerations
Storing product
Sales and marketing
BROILER PROCESSING
The last day is given entirely to running the farm slaughter facility, and we plan to cycle everyone through every role in the processing of broilers.
This hands-on intensive will require patience as everyone cycles through, but it is an unparalleled opportunity to get to grips with all elements of processing poultry efficiently in our low-cost approved facility.
SCHEDULED TRAININGS
