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@@HeiferUSA It's nice to know he's not far from Indiana where I can order some processed chicken from him being I seen how he raises them & what they are fed.
My wife and I just started our laying hen operation. It was great to see Joes operations. We’ll have 2,000 hens by the spring of 2023 and appreciate the ability to learn from people that have been succeeding with chickens on a larger scale
That dedication, along with years of hard work and planning, is what has allowed Joe's Farm to expand and establish such impressive infrastructure. This amazing farm tour was ten years in the making!
We love hearing stories of farmers teaching and helping each other. Hopefully our videos here on UA-cam will educate and inspire the next generation of farmers!
Hoop Barn.. lol an old WW2 aviation Shed, in Australia.. My friends (when I was a kid 50years ago) used to have old Airforce ones on their 100 acres which is now demolished due to suburban sprawl its now all houses..
Dear Haifer you have all excellent questions to farmer so we get real precious knowledge from already successful farmers . Actually there is nobody like you . Thank you thank you zillion times
My grandmother lives in the Latvian community in three rivers and I live in Wisconsin. My husband and I just started a homestead so I'm watching videos. Awesome video!
Congratulations on your new homestead! Please make use of any and every video here on the Heifer USA channel as you learn and grow in your farming journey!
This was awesome. We are considering buying a 35 acre property right now, and are planning on chickens, and potentially turkeys. I have completely changed my original plan based on this video tour. The mobile coops are a game changer. It fits in really well with the permaculture ideas I have for the property.
I was so happy this video was recommended in my feed! Was excited to watch! My (ex) husband was the man that opened (for the Japanese), a laying hen farm in Broadway, NJ called “ISE FARMS”. As a start up, I got to help establish the office, as I was a cost accountant. We had 14 poultry houses, 500 ft long, and housed 1.2 MILLION laying hens! processed 600,000 eggs per day!! One fun fact I remember was that it took 3.2lbs of feed to produce a dozen eggs!! Our poultry house roosts were built in a pyramid shape, so all litter fell to a trench (which we would auger out to a dump truck!) We gave it away to local farmers, as we could show how the litter increased their yield per acre by mixing this litter with their normal fertilizers! (Good community relations! Due to the fact-there was a smell!! The eggs were laid, and rolled to a belt that brought them to a huge belt at end of each house. That main belt brought eggs to the processing plant, where they went through the candler, then the egg wash. Then our Dutch made machines picked them up (point down!), it weighed each egg, and placed it in the corresponding row for another gadget to pick them up and place in a carton!! The machine closed the carton lid, then rolled down to a human that placed it in a case!! Such a fabulous operation!! This video of Joe’s farm was such fun to watch!! Especially since it’d been since the 80’s that I was at ISE FARMS! Thank you!! Ya got a new subscriber!!
Super video Joe! Glad you're a fan of Mr. Joel Salatin, ~Salad Bar Beef~ !!! So happy to see a young tike doing something he loves!!! I've always wanted to raise chickens both for meat and eggs, but time has zoomed by, turning 70 in 6 months!!! Sure wish I would have gotten into it way back, when I had my first 4 chickens, and I was a ~spring chicken~ myself! Lol! I know how you feel at 26 y. o., you can hang the moon if someone asked you to!!!! Truly made my heart jump watching this very worthwhile video!!! God bless you, family, and animal friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sonny.
I think it's great our country is going back to the small farms. Right now because of inflation it's making it hard for small farmers with the cost of grains and hay for their animals. I hope the future will be good for them in the coming years. The people should buy locally and support these farmers. It hard and long work.
Thank you! We want to share all our successes and our failures! I learned how to farm by others sharing what they know and it would not be fair if I didn't also share with others!
Thank you for the info n ur duty tour it is important for us who are outside the USA to add knowledge and apply it in our country... God bless u all... Greetings from Indonesia
Joe a lot of commercial chicken farms here in Texas have sold out an the farm houses are just waiting away an they are selling the contents for scrap prices. Automatic watered automatic feeders everything is being sold off for scrap prices. Location is near Pittsburg Tx.
The local PECO plant here at Pocahontas Ar. has apparently shut down? We havent seen a feed truck or cackle crate go past in 7 days. Usually about 6 trucks per hour. And some on those million dollar grower houses are barely a year old.
This is a great video. I recently bought 18 laying hens, new to this. I had sold 8 of them and now have 10. I wish I could have kept them all but im not supposed to have any. lol. I'll be doing some gardening as well, eventually processing my own veggie garden and canning, etc. thanks for this content.
I am from Ethiopia. I am also a farmer. specialized on Poultry. This is very awesome and wants to learn more from Joe's. Specially unvaccinated chicken, very brave decision. let me learn.
Im a city slicker and know nothing about farming but I find these farming videos very interesting, I watch videos from a you tuber and his channel is SasDutch Kid who is a dairy farmer in Saskatchewan Canada, I never realized how much work went into getting a glass of milk thank the farmers for all they do
We completely agree - that's why we're using our channel to train small-scale farmers across the world! Please consider subscribing and sharing our content, so we can continue to impact new and beginning farmers!
Pink eye will cause blindness, but feeding kelp prevents pink eye & heals it. It will also prevent bloat, helps the animals regulate body temps in heat & old. Plus it makes the meat tender.
Great question! We practice a deep litter method where we add new bedding on top of the old until the end of the season, then we clean it out with our tractor and use the manure and bedding in our pastures.
That was a fun tour. Can't believe I watched the whole thing. Gave me an excuse to grab a coffee before I get back to farm chores here! It counts as a business break? Right? 😉 I felt guilty and watched on 1x! 😂
Hi ! Love Joe's Farm ! I was raised on farm . Loved it and miss it . Horses, cows , goats, pigs, chickens laying and meat , geese , turkeys ! Don't let ve on a farm anymore but my husband and I have 14 laying hens (various breeds ) I takecare of them . I would get more but on only a 1/4 acre can't do . Maybe someday ! I would love it ! Milking cows , meat cows , chickens laying and meat ,some turkeys , a couple pigs , a huge veggie garden( have a veg garden now but want way bigger , and herbs !
We're so happy to hear that you enjoyed the tour! It's clear that Joe has put so much thought into making his farm efficient, profitable, and good for the earth. We're thankful that he took the time to share so much of his knowledge with us!
I’m actually from Arkansas. I want to get into farming myself. I currently have Golden Comets wanting to do small hobby farming. Commercial farming is a huge dream of mine. Remember picking eggs with a family members as a kid through contract buyers/companies & also worked at Tyson chicken processing for 10-yrs. off and on. I’ve even worked at Butterball to. Definitely, have some experience in poultry processing.Looking for land now. No restrictions! Love learning & watching these educational videos of different techniques used.
You've got poultry experience, through and through! Wishing you the best of luck as you start your farming journey! We're always here with resources and advice on regenerative agriculture!
My husband and I are buying property this year (2023 - Happy New Year!) with the intent on starting a farm. If you still have them, we may be interested in your unused brooder boxes Joe! Moving out of G.R. to the U.P.
what i like seeing is the cleanliness of thei chicken area also the common sense farming ive seen from some of the farmers in the 80's they were doing over 100k chickens but the farm it self was so run down and alot of problems with the chickens i moved some mobile homes for his chicken farm over the years at one time he had his house and ten mobile homes for his workers cause he also did citrus trees which i understand the need for mass production of chickens for food but i like you i have to keep my work area clean as well
This was fabulous thank you! We are just about to start our own regenerative farm and want to start with chickens & cattle! Thanks so much for such amazing information! Qld Australia 🇦🇺
Do they ever get to leave the shelters? They look like, at least on the day when this video was recorded, they just eat feed and don't really scratch or dig or peck or go after insects. Some of the mature chickens looked like they were hobbling around like they could barely walk. Looks different than Salatin's where they are free to run around outside of the mobile coops all day.
We are just starting out and have 22 birds. We are in a small town with no way to get eggs to market. I really want to do eggs and pastured poultry. Another challenge we have is no water on the property to be able to grow the grass, we rely on rain which we almost never get.
Congratulations on starting your farm! The challenges you're facing are quite common for beginning farmers. If you're able to connect with other farmers nearby, we suggest asking them how they managed to access water and find markets for their products. The best way to get better at farming is to learn from other farmers!
There’s a chicken farm that has 2 to 3 million laying hens in our area i first noticed the smell when I was inquiring about the massive buildings they are in.
@HeiferUSA Hello Joe. Thanks for bringing your awesome videos to me. I am very close by and I would love to purchase a chicken from your farm. My husband grew up on a farm in MI, but now he is 70 and he doesn't want me raising chickens 😒. He wants to buy a farm fresh one to eat!! I wish he would allow me to have a dozen to raise just for the eggs. Thank you for reaching out to all who are truly excited to see your work.
I love this video. Please do a video on how to use chickens only in a garden space used specifically for produce and the time frames needed for composting this and when it is safe to seed.
for a idea on hanging your feeders is on the crossmembers of your hoop barns run a steel c channel from side to side you can bolt them in cause they won't be holding 1000s of lbs of weight at a time in the area you have i would do 3 bars so you have choices of setting feeders it cost maybe 200 to 500 for the 30 ft steel c channel
New to your channel I been watching for the past 4 months and wow, Joe’s farm excellent I’m now starting out as a new farmer In North East Pennsylvania. I do flee market sales but now I’m looking to expand into selling organic chickens.
Welcome to the channel! We're glad to have you here. Joe's Farm is such an awesome example! There's so much to learn about pastured poultry, and we've produced quite a few educational resources to help beginning farmers like you! Check out our Pastured Poultry playlist here: ua-cam.com/play/PLMPMX18ik9io2eblRTm6RtKRMGJTJw1F6.html
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this video was incredible ! so much to learn and laughing the whole video :)
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@@HeiferUSA Can you kindly share how I can reach to Joe I really wish to visit his farm one day?
@@HeiferUSArrr rrrrrsrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrsrrrdrrr
@@HeiferUSA It's nice to know he's not far from Indiana
where I can order some processed chicken from him
being I seen how he raises them & what they are fed.
Great video
Thank all you farmers for feeding us. God bless you all.
Thank you for your support!
Washing all those eggs is hard work
Chicken barn looks like 🎉quonson hut , like what the military uses
I remember my late history professor told us that only farmers are truly free.
They hardest workers always work on a farm and cant vacation because your animals need constant care.
Amen to that
@GodisReal12been working the local steel mill in madill ok. 12 hrs a day and still come home to my babies. Full timer for sure.
My wife and I just started our laying hen operation. It was great to see Joes operations. We’ll have 2,000 hens by the spring of 2023 and appreciate the ability to learn from people that have been succeeding with chickens on a larger scale
That is awesome!
Well don't be stingy post videos!! :)
Best wishes for your business
Wup wup. Congrats
Farmers are the most respectfull job on whole earth, for they providing us food supply. Highly Respect for all farmers!.
It's awesome to see young people take an interest in farming.
Thank you! We need more young people to get into farming!
Thanks for watching!
Wow. That’s a lot of organization/ infrastructure shown. But the best resource is their dedication to their farm and livestock.
That dedication, along with years of hard work and planning, is what has allowed Joe's Farm to expand and establish such impressive infrastructure. This amazing farm tour was ten years in the making!
Thank you
Joe is very impressive for what he has managed to do but even more impressive is the guy that encouraged him and told him he could do it.
We love hearing stories of farmers teaching and helping each other. Hopefully our videos here on UA-cam will educate and inspire the next generation of farmers!
Hoop Barn.. lol an old WW2 aviation Shed, in Australia.. My friends (when I was a kid 50years ago) used to have old Airforce ones on their 100 acres which is now demolished due to suburban sprawl its now all houses..
Grew up on a dairy farm...farmers work is never done.. Love this video💖
I grew up on a dairy as well
Love seeing the young folks stepping into farming!
Thank you! We need more young people to get into farming!
This is very informative. Well done guys... Watching from Port Vila, Vanuatu.
Absolutely wonderful seeing a farmer (Joe) raising health food.
Joe's operation is truly inspiring! Thanks for watching :)
@@HeiferUSA - Watched a few video from Heifer USA also very inspiring and nice to see healthy food entering the food chain.
On a positive note, this is a great learning video that will help us all survive a future famine if it happens.
Thank you!
Dear Haifer you have all excellent questions to farmer so we get real precious knowledge from already successful farmers . Actually there is nobody like you . Thank you thank you zillion times
We're glad to share knowledge and educate farmers! Thank you for watching!
I think Joe is a great entrepreneur and has a great place.
You're exactly right! Joe has built an amazing business. We're so thankful he took the time to share some of his secrets with our audience!
Thank you!
I am glad to see some happier chickens…
Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
My grandmother lives in the Latvian community in three rivers and I live in Wisconsin. My husband and I just started a homestead so I'm watching videos. Awesome video!
Congratulations on your new homestead! Please make use of any and every video here on the Heifer USA channel as you learn and grow in your farming journey!
There is a Latvian campground right down the road from our farm!
This was awesome. We are considering buying a 35 acre property right now, and are planning on chickens, and potentially turkeys. I have completely changed my original plan based on this video tour. The mobile coops are a game changer. It fits in really well with the permaculture ideas I have for the property.
I love to see young people working smart
Thank you! We need more young people to get into farming!
I enjoyed and learned from, this tour, in February '23. A beautiful and smart-looking farm I would love to visit. Thankyou.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you!
Thx to Joe's farm for sharing his time and facilities. Great video. Thx to Heifer too for publishing.
Thanks for watching! Cheers!
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I was so happy this video was recommended in my feed! Was excited to watch! My (ex) husband was the man that opened (for the Japanese), a laying hen farm in Broadway, NJ called “ISE FARMS”. As a start up, I got to help establish the office, as I was a cost accountant. We had 14 poultry houses, 500 ft long, and housed 1.2 MILLION laying hens! processed 600,000 eggs per day!!
One fun fact I remember was that it took 3.2lbs of feed to produce a dozen eggs!!
Our poultry house roosts were built in a pyramid shape, so all litter fell to a trench (which we would auger out to a dump truck!) We gave it away to local farmers, as we could show how the litter increased their yield per acre by mixing this litter with their normal fertilizers! (Good community relations! Due to the fact-there was a smell!!
The eggs were laid, and rolled to a belt that brought them to a huge belt at end of each house. That main belt brought eggs to the processing plant, where they went through the candler, then the egg wash. Then our Dutch made machines picked them up (point down!), it weighed each egg, and placed it in the corresponding row for another gadget to pick them up and place in a carton!! The machine closed the carton lid, then rolled down to a human that placed it in a case!! Such a fabulous operation!!
This video of Joe’s farm was such fun to watch!! Especially since it’d been since the 80’s that I was at ISE FARMS! Thank you!! Ya got a new subscriber!!
Wow, what an experience! We love it when folks find our channel and really enjoy our content. We're happy to have you here!
@@HeiferUSA Thanks!! I’m getting another education!!
Super video Joe! Glad you're a fan of Mr. Joel Salatin, ~Salad Bar Beef~ !!! So happy to see a young tike doing something he loves!!! I've always wanted to raise chickens both for meat and eggs, but time has zoomed by, turning 70 in 6 months!!!
Sure wish I would have gotten into it way back, when I had my first 4 chickens, and I was a ~spring chicken~ myself! Lol!
I know how you feel at 26 y. o., you can hang the moon if someone asked you to!!!! Truly made my heart jump watching
this very worthwhile video!!! God bless you, family, and animal friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sonny.
Thank you so much for the kind words! We really enjoy Joel!
Thanks for your support and encouragement, Sonny! We're glad you enjoyed the video. 💙
Such a great material to watch doing food for family. God Bless.
Heifer does a great job! Thank you for watching!
Thank you! Cheers!
I think it's great our country is going back to the small farms. Right now because of inflation it's making it hard for small farmers with the cost of grains and hay for their animals. I hope the future will be good for them in the coming years. The people should buy locally and support these farmers. It hard and long work.
Thank you and people should definitely be buying local if they can!
Great job and information.
Thank you
Glad it was helpful! 😄
watching from Botswana. This is amazing and inspiring.
Talk about freely sharing information..... this guy is it. Brilliant!
We strive to share as much information as possible with our viewers. When we learn together, we can make a huge positive impact on our earth!
Thank you! We want to share all our successes and our failures! I learned how to farm by others sharing what they know and it would not be fair if I didn't also share with others!
I was fascinated by the integration of cattle and poultry on the same farm. It’s such a sustainable and efficient method!
Loved the tour of Joe's Farm. Thanks guys. N.W. Indiana.
Thank you!
One of the better videos. I love how heifer USA is so good at this
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They do a great job! Thank you for watching!
I'm in New Mexico and have considered doing poultry farming. I'm enjoying your content, thx a bunch for the real world.
Thank you very interesting.
Great set up. A young couple visiting a museum period, commendations. Keep it up young man
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the info n ur duty tour it is important for us who are outside the USA to add knowledge and apply it in our country...
God bless u all...
Greetings from Indonesia
Thank you for watching, all the way from Indonesia! We hope you learned a lot from Joe and his awesome farm!
Thank you
Im in South Georgia . I am considering chickens and goats. This is a great video . Thank you very much
We're happy to help! Best of luck.
Joe a lot of commercial chicken farms here in Texas have sold out an the farm houses are just waiting away an they are selling the contents for scrap prices. Automatic watered automatic feeders everything is being sold off for scrap prices. Location is near Pittsburg Tx.
The local PECO plant here at Pocahontas Ar. has apparently shut down? We havent seen a feed truck or cackle crate go past in 7 days. Usually about 6 trucks per hour. And some on those million dollar grower houses are barely a year old.
I need to go there. I’m in West Texas
This is a great video. I recently bought 18 laying hens, new to this. I had sold 8 of them and now have 10. I wish I could have kept them all but im not supposed to have any. lol. I'll be doing some gardening as well, eventually processing my own veggie garden and canning, etc. thanks for this content.
Awesome!
Thank you! When I started we also were not supposed to have them in the town we lived lol!
I just think about the big birds all day long and am crazy about how they are doing great looking birds and hope the best for your farm.
Thank you!
I am from Ethiopia. I am also a farmer. specialized on Poultry. This is very awesome and wants to learn more from Joe's. Specially unvaccinated chicken, very brave decision. let me learn.
Im a city slicker and know nothing about farming but I find these farming videos very interesting, I watch videos from a you tuber and his channel is SasDutch Kid who is a dairy farmer in Saskatchewan Canada, I never realized how much work went into getting a glass of milk thank the farmers for all they do
Glad you enjoy them!
Activities on farms are bustling and full of life.
Hi I'm from the Philippines and I enjoyed watching your video and learned a lot from it...keep it up guys! 2 thumbs up!
Awesome! Thank you!
My name is Zach , South African watching and following you from Seychelles , I really enjoyed the show I would like to come and work with you 😀
Hi zack why can't you try back in South Africa, am in north west South Africa i can help you.
@franciskariuki4674 hello there, really how can I get hold of you and we discuss further?
This is a great channel,very informative. The world desperately needs good training the next generation of farmers,
We completely agree - that's why we're using our channel to train small-scale farmers across the world! Please consider subscribing and sharing our content, so we can continue to impact new and beginning farmers!
This is really cool. What a wholesome and fulfilling lifestyle.
Thanks, David!
Thank you!
Really enjoyed it! Thanks for taking us along on the tour!
Thanks for watching!
What a beautiful Farm, going to be expanding next year From 5,000 to 30,000 layers. Sending love from RSA 🇿🇦
Best of luck!
The best farming video on UA-cam! Thank you so much for this!
Thank you!
Well done Joe and Family! Thank you for amazing information!
Thank you!
I have 6 laying hens and love it. Don't know a whole lot but learning a lot with videos
That's great! Thank you!
Pink eye will cause blindness, but feeding kelp prevents pink eye & heals it. It will also prevent bloat, helps the animals regulate body temps in heat & old. Plus it makes the meat tender.
Great tip!
looking forward to this love Justin's version of this type of tour
We're so glad you found our channel!
Great farming! I hope you get some time off for vacation as well. Tons of work and very rewarding.
Thank you for watching! We appreciate you.
Thank you!
You really connected with nature and utilising it effectively
Thank you!
Joe has done a wonderful job of stewarding his ecosystem while building a profitable business. What an inspiration!
1 really enjoyed learning about the large chicken operation. They really care for their animals,!
SO glad you enjoyed it, Sandra!
Thank you!
You can raise your turkey feeders by setting them up on leveled bricks/cinder blocks.
Thank you so much for the elegant simplicity in your videos.
it would be hard for me to leave that building lol love the sounds the chicks make nice set up
*Hello Brother. The environment is very orderly. The chicks will grow up in a very comfortable environment. You are amazing.*
Thank you
Great video. Very impressive and inspirational.
Thank you!
Thanks! 😄
Wish someone would’ve asked about the cleaning process for the brooders.
Great question! We practice a deep litter method where we add new bedding on top of the old until the end of the season, then we clean it out with our tractor and use the manure and bedding in our pastures.
That was a fun tour. Can't believe I watched the whole thing. Gave me an excuse to grab a coffee before I get back to farm chores here! It counts as a business break? Right? 😉 I felt guilty and watched on 1x! 😂
This definitely counts as work! 😂
Wow! This has been very educational! I appreciate the content of this video! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!
Hi ! Love Joe's Farm ! I was raised on farm . Loved it and miss it . Horses, cows , goats, pigs, chickens laying and meat , geese , turkeys ! Don't let ve on a farm anymore but my husband and I have 14 laying hens (various breeds ) I takecare of them . I would get more but on only a 1/4 acre can't do . Maybe someday ! I would love it ! Milking cows , meat cows , chickens laying and meat ,some turkeys , a couple pigs , a huge veggie garden( have a veg garden now but want way bigger , and herbs !
That's great!
Thanks for watching, debbie!!
Beautiful Farm!
Thank you
This was great farm tour, thank you…. Good to see the ingenuity, adaptations, forward thinking and tuning to run a successful farm.
We're so happy to hear that you enjoyed the tour! It's clear that Joe has put so much thought into making his farm efficient, profitable, and good for the earth. We're thankful that he took the time to share so much of his knowledge with us!
Thakn you!
Very educative, I learned a lot about poultry farming, thanks
I like every thing about this farm, hope my farm will growth to this level
From Nigeria
Thank you
Well done Joe and Family! Thank you for amazing information!. I think Joe is a great entrepreneur and has a great place..
We agree!
Thank you!
I’m actually from Arkansas. I want to get into farming myself. I currently have Golden Comets wanting to do small hobby farming. Commercial farming is a huge dream of mine. Remember picking eggs with a family members as a kid through contract buyers/companies & also worked at Tyson chicken processing for 10-yrs. off and on. I’ve even worked at Butterball to. Definitely, have some experience in poultry processing.Looking for land now. No restrictions! Love learning & watching these educational videos of different techniques used.
You've got poultry experience, through and through! Wishing you the best of luck as you start your farming journey! We're always here with resources and advice on regenerative agriculture!
My husband and I are buying property this year (2023 - Happy New Year!) with the intent on starting a farm. If you still have them, we may be interested in your unused brooder boxes Joe! Moving out of G.R. to the U.P.
Hi am from South Africa, i would like to relocate in America to assist you with chicken farming, looking forward for invition from you guy's.
Awesome tour and interview! Super inspiring!
Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm learning a lot from all of your videos. I Think that you have one of the best channels that I have seen in a long time. Keep up the great work
They do a great job! Thank you for watching!
Hi you can make an easy feeder out of 30 gal. Trash can and 4 to 5 pvc ells notched then foamed into postion. When finished looks like a funnel.
Maybe! Thanks for the tip
I admire you. Thank you for producing healthy food for the USA.👍🏻Regina
Thank you!
what i like seeing is the cleanliness of thei chicken area also the common sense farming ive seen from some of the farmers in the 80's they were doing over 100k chickens but the farm it self was so run down and alot of problems with the chickens i moved some mobile homes for his chicken farm over the years at one time he had his house and ten mobile homes for his workers cause he also did citrus trees which i understand the need for mass production of chickens for food but i like you i have to keep my work area clean as well
This was fabulous thank you! We are just about to start our own regenerative farm and want to start with chickens & cattle! Thanks so much for such amazing information! Qld Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you!
Awesome ..Good work done
Thank you
Very impressed with Joe's drive as an entrepreneur.
Thank you!
Do they ever get to leave the shelters? They look like, at least on the day when this video was recorded, they just eat feed and don't really scratch or dig or peck or go after insects. Some of the mature chickens looked like they were hobbling around like they could barely walk. Looks different than Salatin's where they are free to run around outside of the mobile coops all day.
Great question! They do not leave the coops but since the coops do not have floors, they definitely scratch around for bugs and worms and grass!
This live video is great! Thanks!
Thank you!
Danny from Chicago,IL.I enjoyed watching your videos.Sounds interesting and very informative.Healthy raising of poultry and cows. Thanks very much
Hi, Danny! Thanks for watching! We're glad you enjoyed the video.
We are just starting out and have 22 birds. We are in a small town with no way to get eggs to market. I really want to do eggs and pastured poultry. Another challenge we have is no water on the property to be able to grow the grass, we rely on rain which we almost never get.
Congratulations on starting your farm! The challenges you're facing are quite common for beginning farmers. If you're able to connect with other farmers nearby, we suggest asking them how they managed to access water and find markets for their products. The best way to get better at farming is to learn from other farmers!
Good job Joe my first question is how many acres of land is your farm
Thank you! At the time of this video, we had 159 acres. Now we have 227. Not all of it is pasture, though.
Thanks for the reply!
Loved the psychedelic colors, added some aura to the all white birds!!!
Haha, just another perk of the live farm tour experience!
Love the no corn no soy! I need to buy those birds. I can't find them around Morrilton Arkansas. Do you ship your birds?
Great question! We will be offering shipping very soon!
how do you deal with critters mice and so on? great work keep it up
cats, traps, clean locations, etc.
Chickens will deal with mice, lol, they like them, cats will leave chickens alone, dogs, foxes, coyotes, feral dogs and cats can be a problem
Chicken eat mice
There’s a chicken farm that has 2 to 3 million laying hens in our area i first noticed the smell when I was inquiring about the massive buildings they are in.
Beautiful piece of property
We agree!
I am watching from the Philippines..That farm is so awesome!
Wow! I love this. Joe is amazing. I'm inspired. Thanks for sharing
We're so thrilled that you enjoyed the tour! Be sure to subscribe for more awesome live farm tours!
Thank you!
so beautiful farmers
great achievement
thanks to Farmer
Thanks to you
So beautiful farmers great achievement thanks or big information
@HeiferUSA Hello Joe. Thanks for bringing your awesome videos to me. I am very close by and I would love to purchase a chicken from your farm. My husband grew up on a farm in MI, but now he is 70 and he doesn't want me raising chickens 😒. He wants to buy a farm fresh one to eat!! I wish he would allow me to have a dozen to raise just for the eggs. Thank you for reaching out to all who are truly excited to see your work.
Thank you for watching! Come on by! Our farm store is self-serve and open 8am-8pm.
Im watching you from Africa Kenya very impressive
ideas. Keep it up.
@johnstonemakokha5051 Hello from Indiana in USA.
Watching from the Philippines
Hello! Welcome to our channel! 👋
I love this video. Please do a video on how to use chickens only in a garden space used specifically for produce and the time frames needed for composting this and when it is safe to seed.
Great idea! We will look into it
Thanks alot for doing this video. It's really helpful for a beginner like me. I'm watching this from Accra Ghana.
Awesome! that is why we do it
for a idea on hanging your feeders is on the crossmembers of your hoop barns run a steel c channel from side to side you can bolt them in cause they won't be holding 1000s of lbs of weight at a time in the area you have i would do 3 bars so you have choices of setting feeders it cost maybe 200 to 500 for the 30 ft steel c channel
New to your channel I been watching for the past 4 months and wow, Joe’s farm excellent I’m now starting out as a new farmer In North East Pennsylvania. I do flee market sales but now I’m looking to expand into selling organic chickens.
Welcome to the channel! We're glad to have you here.
Joe's Farm is such an awesome example! There's so much to learn about pastured poultry, and we've produced quite a few educational resources to help beginning farmers like you! Check out our Pastured Poultry playlist here: ua-cam.com/play/PLMPMX18ik9io2eblRTm6RtKRMGJTJw1F6.html