Raising 20,000 Chickens On Pasture [COMPLETE]
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
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In this video you will learn about:
1. Setting up a brooder and introducing chicks
2. Daily brooder chores and setting up your schooner
3. Moving out to pasture
4. Daily schooner chores and maintenance
5. Loading for processing and preparing for winter months
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Timecodes:
0:00 - Overview
0:45 - Chicken Brooder Setup
6:49 - Caring for New Chicks
7:58 - Brooder Chores
14:16 - Chicken Tractor Setup
19:13 - Moving Chickens to Pasture
26:38 - Daily Pasture Chores
34:17 - Chicken Catching
41:15 - Winter Activities
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I clicked out of curiosity and ended up watching the whole video, not even a single minute was wasted talking unnecessary things!!! Very detailed and informative 👍
Thanks for the view!
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@@HeiferUSA U are simply a amazing & awesome teacher. We need more people with your strength in our lives these days. Ur knowledge alone is amazing. But, I can completely see & tell how truly passionate you are about this. I completely want to watch & learn more!!
Thanks so much for your videos!!
As a person who has journeyed from interested novice to self-informed farmer practitioner, to small scale commercial poultry and egg producer, I can tell you I wish I'd had this video to guide me years ago. Heifer has laid out the complete pastured poultry program without the self-aggrandizing or fear-based hype that accompanies so many other presenter's spiels. While I'll never reach the volume of birds raised and processed by Heifer, I know from first-hand knowledge and experience, that the processes and protocols explained here can be scaled to fit on almost any size plot of land. The goals of self-sufficiency, reduced dependence on factory farming, and supporting local food suppliers can all be achieved using the techniques demonstrated in this video. I applaud the working Heifer theology and am particularly happy to see this video gently spreading the unspoken words that food security and planetary sustainability are not mutually exclusive concepts.
Thank you, Joe for your kind words and support!
Yes Joe. We plan to set something up using this method.
Joe's thanks are the best comments. Thanks to the Farm and such a thorough explanation.
Absolutely right Dear. Well knowledge for me. Thanks alot
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After seeing so many horrible videos about large scale farms & how horribly the animals are treated & kept, this is a mood booster. Your animals get to feel grass under their feet, get sunlight & fresh air. I can also see that you care about their health & not being cruel, even if they will be feeder chickens.
Thank you for being what a chicken farmer should be. 🧡
Now THAT is a huge compliment! Thank you!
I feel much better about farming after watching this video! I'm going to start buying my food from smaller farm's like this, the animals are healthy and well cared for!
Christine, great video. I'm currently running my first batch of 24 broilers in a smaller but similar process. As a former process engineer I didn't really have any questions, which is the ultimate compliment.
Thank you, Benjamin!
You are so well spoken! Very nice care for your babies too.
I was delighted to see so many women working on the ranch. Your care for the animal comes through, yet it is clear you keep your emotions where they belong.
Coincidentally our livestock team is 100% female! They are amazing!
She really knows the ins/outs of her farm and what is best for the animals. Impressive.
Thanks for watching! New videos every week now!
Awesome! My father, Dan West, gave me the chicken house on our farm in Indiana and helped me to raise broilers for several summers to help with my college costs. I cleaned out our old chicken house, took grain from our silos, and have it ground into feed at our farm coop...and received 4 boxes of 80 chickies from Sears Roebuck. It was thrilling and awesome work for several summers.
The tradition lives on at Heifer Ranch and farms across America thanks to people like you and your father! Thanks for your support!
This is such a neatly, well-elaborated Chicken farming video i have had in a while. As a new chicken farmer in Kenya - Africa, with only a starting number of 50 one month chicks, i look forward to growing to this kind of setup and well-outlined brooder and as your T-Shirt correctly says, The Future is Farmers. This has been so healful to me.
Glad we could help. Let us know if you run into any questions
@@HeiferUSA Thank you so much. I will gladly share any challenges i encounter. Your reply and willingness to help is really appreciated.
Twende kazi sasa, Well explained video!
@@brianmboya6590 Hello Brian. I am also an aspiring farmer from Kenya, Africa. I intend to start building the chicken coop tomorrow and I would like to learn from you. How can I reach you?
The absolute best presentation I have seen on youtube for the past 31/2 years. Also the best illustrations.
Thanks for the compliment!
@@HeiferUSA Nope thx for your video and editing. Also thx for the farm and the lady to give us the best presentation ever.!!!!
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Can you tell us where you bought the bought the chicken schooners?
Am reviewing your web page very interesting!
And how was the ROI on the 1600 or 20,0000 chickens?
Thank you in advance.
You just find her a Attractive.
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Lol... That too!!
I am supportive of your farm because it is clear to see that you actually care about your animals and can see more than just profit with these living and breathing creatures unlike so many others on this planet. Great job, keep up the amazing work!
Yeah but doesn’t care enough to not send them off to get slaughtered. False hope
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It's ok my what kind of corn she give this chicken
@@sum07071 it's called teh circle of life or "farming". Can't be called "farming" if you don't produce anything!
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Most Outstanding video about Chickens from receiving to process. The young lady in this video is a superstar, I wish I could hire 50 of her. Heifer Farms you have the perfect system. Thank you for posting this. I’ve been raising Chickens for near 50 years, and I learned some procedures, setups and tools that will be put into operations Monday. I’m so impressed.
Awesome! Thanks and best of luck.
Hi I would love to connect with you if possible please.
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Hello can you tell me were do you import yhe chips shaver gor yge chicks please.
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I love this! I've been pasturing heritage breed chickens and turkeys for the last several years, I can't wait to do something on a larger scale; like this! Thanks for the insight !!
Thanks for watching! New videos every week now! Check out our new videos on raising pastured turkeys!
Hi. I found this video from the recommendation in "How to Start a Regenerative Farm from Scratch". I want to thank you for the level of detail and clarity of information in this video. I'm not a farmer nor do I own any chickens (yet) but I can appreciate when someone has a passion and shares it with the world. Thank you again from a new subscriber :-)
Welcome to our channel! We're so glad our videos are reaching beyond our typical audience of farmers, and now reaching folks who can appreciate the work we do (and learn a thing or two, as well!). We're glad to have you here!
@@HeiferUSA Thank you!
I heard the same way just today
Best presentation from start to end, with detailed and well explained overall procedure and precautions necessary for poultry.
Awesome! Thanks for the compliment! Glad you found the video helpful
We eat chicken on daily basis and do not realize that how much work people like you have put in to it all for us to have food on our tables, thx for your hard works👃🌹.
Thanks so much for your support!
You are awesome!! Thank you for all you're sharing with us... it's definitely a larger operation than I might even consider but getting to hear you explain the "why" you do or don't do things really makes sense... thank you and God Bless you and your chicken business!!
You are so welcome!
Best pastured poultry on UA-cam! All my questions were answered (almost). Great job.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching! New videos every week now!
I love the mobile pens. The chickens have more room and more appropriate food/bedding! I plan to use this idea. Thank you!!!!
You are so welcome! Let us know how it turns out for ya!
This is ONE INCREDIBLE VIDEO! I'm planning to build my own post frame home on my new 40 acre property, and wish so much that the post frame videos on UA-cam were as detailed and well-explained as this one. Because of this video, I know now exactly how I will operate my smaller chicken raising set up. Thank you so much Heifer USA for this video!
That is great to hear and exactly what we hoped this video (and all our videos really) will do for others. Best of luck in your endeavors, and let us know if there is anything we can do to help along the way! You got this!!
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A big big thank you!!! It was very educational. The quality of the content was superb. Short to the point but still ample enough information to process. The presenter was very effective in giving out the intended information. It is an A+++!!!!
Glad it was helpful!
This young lady knows her stuff for sure, best presentation ever, she was absolutely wonderful!!!!!!!!!!
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This to me is about as ethical of a chicken raising as you can get. Happy birds, enough room for them all, and they get to do what their nature tells them to do. If every chicken were raised like this, the world would be a much better place.
We agree! Happy birds = Happy world!
We sell thousands of chicken pot pies in our pie shop in Michigan. I need to find a farmer here that can provide us with pastured poultry like this. I appreciate how this proper method gives back to the soil and builds it up!
Hi Wendy! Check out Joe Koopsen's farm in Three Rivers Michigan, it is called Joe's Farm and they produce the exact same quality of poultry as we do! Hope this helps.
Im sure they made a very good profit. Her smile, while saying input output, said it all😀😀
Thanks for watching!
I always find Christine's videos one of the best. Thank you for making these awesome videos.
Glad you like them!
The fact that you didn't give me any reason to put up a question, makes this video super informative. Thank you.
Awesome! Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
I have never seen a 100% great video explaining chicken business from start to finish till now. This young lady did a very great demo on chicken farm. I would like to hire her to run my farm. She is very knowledgeable as you can tell. Thank you for putting this video out.
Thanks for watching!
Awesome presentation, great work! Wonderful to hear the passion and care our younger farmers have in growing primary produce.
Thank you kindly!
This is really very well done. And perhaps one of the best and informative videos I have seen!
Thank you for taking the time to create it!
Well, thank you!!
@@HeiferUSA
Thank you keep them coming.
And let us know how profitable doing it this way is!
I wanted to start raising meat chicken on a smaller scale of course, but I wasn’t confident enough to move forward. I’ve watched tons of youtube videos and I still had questions. However, after coming across your video today, not only boosted my confidence, but answered all the questions after you presented each step. You have a natural teaching ability and I am here to learn. Thank you for showing us, as women that this is a field we can do and be confident in. Also , being generous in the information you shared. Now let me go binge watch your videos… Thanks again❤
I recently watched the video on Grass Grazed farm on how to start a regenerative farm. They mentioned this and I had to check it out! I am thoroughly impressed by the obvious care for your product. I want to start a farm, maybe a regenerative farm one day soon. For my notes, thank you so much for this presentation. I needed it!!
Glad it was helpful!
I really enjoyed the video. I love how gentle and careful you are handling the chickens.
Thank you very much!
Thank you very much for this training vid. You know the old saying a picture is worth a thousand words and here is the proof. I especially commend you for the detail you give on pasture terain, schooner structures, food, & water fixtures. You are preserving an organic method for food production. God bless you. Keep it up!
You are so welcome! We are glad you found it valuable.
This is the best way I ever ❤ see..there is no no abuse of animals that make people crying..you guys are the best 👌 💓 we love you guys..GREAT 👍 GOD BLESS YOU 🙏 ALL WORKING YOU GUYS DOING..THANKS
So nice of you! Thanks for watching!!
THIS is HOW chickens should be kept before processing AND the layer chickens. Perfect...thank you.
You are most welcome !
Comprehensive video on this subject very well explained and stage by stage details were much important
Glad you think so!
So much different than the places that keep the chickens indoors all the time and give them a terrible life.
Good for you and hope it's profitable for you. You deserve it.
Hey Thanks so much for the compliments and for watching our video!
I'm only halfway through your amazing video and I'm so thrilled you are sharing your well thought-out and comprehensive process. Thank you, thank you, thank you
You are very welcome, An !
Oh wow, I’m in Arkansas as well to myself. I have grew up around here & have worked at Tyson’s & Butterball in Mo. I also can remember even as a kid walking through & doing egg processing with my family also as a kid in Ark. & Oklahoma to both I helped with egg birds. I would love to see your set-up in person. Looks very amazing! Very impressed!! You all are doing amazing!
Thanks, C!
I love the presentation, direct to the point. Efficiency is the key!
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Awesome presentation best of any that I have watched so far on lockdown, your husbandry looks amazing, I like that you pay attention to detail. which means more profit, and a better life for the chicken.
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wow, I'm never going to raise any farm animals for profit but I'm so impressed with this farms production! love how these folks put the animals at leisure and care for them as natural and protective as possible! great presentation, I'm subbing, best wishes to yall in your future farming!
Thank you!
Thank you for this top notch presentation. Liked & subscribed.
I'm about to raise 8 meat hens. Smaller scale than your operation but the principles still apply!
Thanks for watching! Best of luck with your hens!
We might think you’re a pro at farming. We got valuable ideas from your video and we’re going to share your channel with our customers who want to start a farm. Thanks for creating this!
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I’m working on the “tools where you need them” concept! Great implementation!
Yes! Thank you!
Beautifully explained each aspect of poultry. Compliment from India
How many acres do you have?
@@geremiascaetano 40 acres
So nice of you
This changed me whole perspective on buying eggs! Thank you!
I'm so glad! Thanks for watching! New videos every week now!
Wonderful Presentation.,, Really enjoyed watching... Thanks for sharing the valuable experience....
Glad you enjoyed it
It's rarely to see such a good chicken video with all the details. Thanks for your input!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very well informed. I have been doing this business for the last 4 years
Hi sudhir can u give more details on my mail dinbhim@ gmail.com
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0:44 Part 1: Brooder setup & Chick arrival
7:57 Part 2: Brooder chores & Schooner preparation (size of schooner is 20 x 40)
19:13 Part 3: Moving to pasture
26:39 Part 4: Schooner chores
34:17 Part 5: Chicken loading & winter preparation
woow. you are a star. Thanks for summary. Can i ask from part five. are they ready to be slaughtered
if u have a farm apply it
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Can you share the design details if I want to adopt and replicate exactly similar work of what you are doing. I love farming.
This lady is a good talker, when you think she's going slip she comes out with eloquent paraphrases
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splendid you really seem to encouraged me , this vidoe is fantastic now i have a plan for organic chickens thank you so much
You can do it!
I have 4 chickens and still found this really enjoyable. Really well presented.
Thank you Mr. PRESIDENT !
I don't think "Thank You" is enough for you guys
You're too kind! We appreciate your support.
When the borders reopen, please come to NZ and do a lecture and demonstration tour of your pastured pig and chicken system. You're a natural teacher, great videos! Thank you.
Hi I live in NZ too and would love it if you come our way as well we have so much to learn. Great videos. Thanks
We would love to visit! email us sometime with any opportunities.
Such a greatly informative video! Thank you for making it!
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My family will be raising chickens next year on a larger plot of land, and this has very to the point info that will guide the transition.
that's what it is all about! Best of luck with your poultry season!
Wow this video is wonderful, a have read several comments down here and it well describes this video. I like the way the birds grow in their natural environment.💯
Thank you very much!
Awesome set up. I checked it out because I have been thinking of setting up a mobile "schooner" for some poultry. Nothing as big, but I'm glad to see something bigger is feasible. So gives me hope that my idea should work also.
Very informative. Thank you!
That's great to hear! As long as your chickens have adequate space for grazing, this design can be scaled up or down depending on your needs. Best of luck!
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Great information thanks endlessly
Please make these kind of detailed informative videos they really helps lot of veterinary students and other students of animal sciences
We'll continue making educational content for regenerative farmers as long as they continue enjoying and finding value in it!
Loved how thorough this video was! Amazing work Heifer farms!! Learnt a lot! Thank you for sharing your daily tasks and winter prep! Appreciate your hard work for feeding America!
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Loved your presentation I'm starting my own poetry farm this July it was nice to see it done I'm new at this so every little bit of info helps
You can do it!
You have really done a great job explaining and showing what you do and you tell why. May God bless you for being so unselfish in helping others. Thank you Christine. I'm Rod, appraiser broker.
I appreciate that!
glad to see those chickens have a dignified life. bless up!
woot woot! Thanks for the props kirtonos!
Great job on the video Thanks for sharing that - I don't know but I started small raising Chickens 10 years ago, and I love It. It seems to get in your blood. I sure wish I had seen this video 10 years ago.
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2 minutes into the video, I am impressed with the level of confidence and the detailed description
Thank you! Hope you enjoyed it.
This was probably the best and most informative chicken video I've ever seen! Thank you so much! Love your channel and very very helpful!
You are so welcome!
Noticed on one of the schooners "Flying Dutchman". As a farmer from the Cape (South Africa) I really liked that :)
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When I moved to The Village, next door had a chicken coop and a dozen or so birds. Many mornings I'd open the front door to find them on my porch, waiting because I'd toss a handful of bird mealworms out for them. It was great to see them wandering around all day, diggling about in the soil and grass. When I'd come back in the car one in particular would come running over for an extra mealworm or two. Very intelligent birds, too. Shame they've gone.
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This is absolutely a beautiful presentation, well explained and good video. Keep it up
Thank you so much 😀
I love it so much nicer than the way I have done it with regular chicken houses. I used to raise them for Gold Kist years ago.
Pastured poultry is the way to go! 🐓
This is so special, I enjoyed seeing it.
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I love your vids. Chockfull of info, presented succinctly. I wish all u tubers were like this. Congratulations on your system. It’s everything I ever wanted.
Glad you like them!
Good video. If I understand correctly, you are incorporating modern business practices with pasture or free-range chickens and eggs. I'm not a business major; but the general idea of hyper-efficieny with good practices and treating the chickens well has crossed my mind more than once. Good one!
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I have so many positive things to say about this young lady and the operation that her employer is running that I don't want to type them all because no one would read all of it. That said, farms and farming like this one make our lives so much nicer and they raise and treat their poultry so well. We can never repay the farmer what they are really worth to society. I have seen so many 'homesteader' videos telling me how inhumane commercial chickens are treated to justify their own homestead/farmer's market operations but this operation puts them to shame! Yes, I do know that there are some bad apples but I just wanted to thank this farm for all it does to further agriculture in the US and abroad and for all of the people that their ministry helps and to wish them the best of luck.
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Just a quick point, apologies for my late response. I am also glad that this farm practices the production techniques that it does. We do something very similar, on a much, much smaller scale. I can assure you, Otis, that these types of practices are adopted by only a tiny proportion of the total production in North America. It is not a problem of a few “bad apples” as you pointed out. It is essentially the entire industry which has adopted astonishingly low standards in order to produce the cheapest possible birds, with little thought to the welfare of the poultry or environmental sustainability.
How do you know she's not the owner/partner? Why would you make the assumption sure couldn't be the owner?
And we raise our own because this commercial poultry farm is NOT how the main companies raise their chickens. We all know that.
Can y'all talk about the after production part, storage, distribution, marketing, target market, how you compete with other producers etc?
Fortunately, we are a part of a farmer owned cooperative (grassrootscoop.com) and they handle all of that for us! Check them out online to see how it all works.
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Thank you very much for putting out this informative video! Great learning for me as I start planning to raise poultry now!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for your sharing your expertise in a great detail. May God bless you and your business to grow and multiply 🙏🏼
So nice of you
Thank you for the amazing video!
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Wow, thank you very much for explaining everything in so much details. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and wisdom.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
this scooner is a great idea, it was the same idea that i have.. saves manure collection cleaning and feeds. however the mortality might be higher
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I am so glad I watched the whole Video. The young lady was very informative with her presentation. Very good job. I will be taking this info as well as getting my partners to also watch and use this to broaden our own chicken business. Thank you very much Heifer USA.
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Thank you for showing this to us.
Our pleasure!
I like how y'all name your chicken housing. I might name my chicken tractors too. Looks cool.
Go for it!
Wow, I'm soooo glad 😊 I found your channel...this is very educational and really appreciate the knowledge your sharing.
Awesome! We are so glad you are here. Welcome, Diamond Hands!
A well informed glimps into the life of raising poultry. Well done.
Thanks!
Great operation, even better Presentation. Truly terrific, whoever designed this is very efficient and safety and health conscious, outstanding!!!!! The only things I wished you would have covered is the “after” look of the pasture after you have moved the schooner. And the bucketed food vs. the field consumption of the birds as they grow. Otherwise, truly impressed with your system, well done!!!
Karl Wagner I was told by others that pasture birds eat 1/3 less feed than barn birds...cost savings and health!
MrsBrownsAquaria that is what I wanted to know, thank you!
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thank you so much for this! with this I have an idea for my farm that I am opening in a month! I am starting with 2500 chickens. happy breeding :) and hurray for free range chickens
That is AWESOME! We are so glad you found the video helpful. Best of luck in your journey Laven!
Gosh, such minute details: the height of the feeder, the acclimatization before pasture, the attention to the shaving on the floor, etc, etc, etc. The only thing missing is music. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! 😁 Our recent videos contain music for better viewing experiences. Check them out for even more detail-packed tours and tutorials!
Thank you, a very complete video that can help those who want to raise chickens have more experience.
That's our mission! We're happy to help. 😄
Nice operation! I hope you feed the chickens non-GMO feed.
Love the dogs! 🐶
Thanks Alan! We do use non-gmo feed for all our poultry.
I'm receiveing 2000 chicks(commercial layers) on Dec 10. This was so informative.
Where are you located?
Ngei....Where are you located? Am in Kenya.
@@ericagillara9246 I'm based in kiambu. A
That is what it is all about! best of luck this year!
@@HeiferUSA Thanks alot.
My layers are now 2 months into egg production.
The birds are now laying 90%, with 0 to no mortalities.
Nice to see all beautiful family working together. I wish to assume they are all sisters. Great job! Thanks for sharing
We aren't blood related, but certainly are one big "family" ! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the very detailed and straightforward explanation and for showing us your system. It was very informative and it seems like a lot of work, so nice job to all of the team!!
Glad it was helpful!
Hey! Love this and I cannot wait to watch more. I have a question. Was this done as a way to explain your operations or as part of a grant proposal for farm/ranch subsidaries? Because girl y'all nailed it! Down to naming the you schooners! I can't wait to watch with my kids.
Hi, Elizabeth. Thanks for watching! The video was done simply as a project to help educate small holder farmers on the regenerative agriculture practices used at Heifer Ranch in Perryville, AR that is run by our team at Heifer USA. As a part of Heifer International, we are a non-profit organization dedicated to helping small-holder farms across the globe reach sustainable and living incomes. We use Heifer Ranch as a living classroom to help train the next generation of farmers in the United States and supply healthy proteins and specialty crops to consumers.
Have you considered using a hot air system for your brooder? We have found a 10% increase in feed conversion, a 15% increase in flock weight and a 10% decrease in mortalities with hot air rather than the pancake heaters shown in the video
Thank you for the suggestion. We will look into that.
Courious - why would forced hot air help them out with weight and growth ?
@@michaelripperger5674 The heat is more evenly distributed in the chicken house eliminating hot and cold areas. This encourages the young chicks to reach out for food and water rather than standing around a brood heater.
Christine, great!! you have a passion and love for your chicken farming. I have learned some very useful concepts from your model. I feel like coming to raise the chicken with you.
Awesome! Thank you!
WOW, Excellent presentation and practical content. Thank you for all the hard work for putting this together for us.
You're very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it. New videos every week :)