I'm a veterinarian, farmer's daughter, and I visited Joel's Polyface Farm 3 months ago (didn't get to meet Joel). I agree with this message 100%. SO MANY problems can be avoided with good husbandry, low stress, and good nutrition. His farm wasn't fancy or showy, but it was immaculate and the animals I saw were very healthy. He puts his time and resources into his livestock's well being, and it showed.

This man has so much understanding. I grew up seeing my grandfather’s ( born in 1898) farm. I remember it never stank like big farms here in the Midwest. “A righteous man regards the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.” Proverbs 12:10. The real key. When money becomes a man’s god, things really start to stink!

Have such a huge respect for this man. Animals are not happy dirty and it drives me nuts when people do not care properly for their animals. Every animal deserves to be clean.

We use a deep bedding system in our hen house. Every week or two I lay down 6” of wood shavings and a little bit of bio char. Our henhouse floor is our compost bin. All compostables get thrown on the floor, most of which the chickens eat and they poop on the rest. We throw in all of our weeds, crop residue, table scraps etc. the straw from the layer boxes gets dropped on the ground when it gets dirty just about everything goes in. It accumulates all year long. In February,here in Maine, just when the girls could use a little heat we drive holes into the pile with a pry bar and pour water in the holes which starts the composting process. The floor heats up and the girls love it. They sleep on the floor instead of the roosts sometimes to keep warm. We also aerate the pile every week with the pry bar. Our henhouse is attached to our 100’ long greenhouse which helps dissipate the excess moisture, you could simply open a vent. By the time we need to spread the manure on the gardens the manure is composted except for the newest stuff on the top. If you are certified organic you will need to move the chickens out to get the fresh manure composted before application. As soon as the snow is off the ground the chickens the chickens go into a mobile henhouse that I built on a trailer. They are pastured all over the farm wherever they are needed until the fall when we return them to the henhouse.

God bless our farmers. We are heading into uncharted territory. Everyone needs to participate for a better future. Thanks Joe.

I have been to Joel's farm a few times, and not once have I smelled a off smell.. It was so nice to just have my daughter hangout with all the chickens and watch the pigs be pigs.. Thank you so much for what you do for the community.

This is great. Joel is so inspiring. My husband and I just moved from CA to VA to be first time farmers. Joel and his books have been a God send compass in this transition.

I saw Joel in Budapest recently and he was very inspiring. Amazing knowledge , holistic thinking and some fun jokes peppered throughout. You’re a credit to humanity Joel

wisdom he has..this needs to be captured for the future generations.

I love how much Joel has educated himself

The Joel and the way he teaches and know so much that amazes me. Thank you Justin for putting him on your page.

A wealth of knowledge mixed with common sense, i could listen to him all day and often do. A great man, take his advice and you wont go far wrong. Many thanks from the UK. Regards Alan

Joel raises animals the way they were MEANT to be raised, and the way that works for both humans AND those animals. We've literally lost the skillset on how to do this. Ever since mass CAFO farming came along, we forgot how to truly FARM. Joel's type of farming is the way to go!

Joel, thank you so much for the video. The material you cover here is priceless, no one else is talking about this. I will soon retire and I am definitely going to start my own Homestead.

Always love a good talk from the "Pasture pastor"......yeah I hereby declare Joel the "Pasture Pastor"!

Joel has a great way of explaining complex concepts and making it easy for the average person to understand.

This is excellent! Simple explanations of basically, how nature keeps itself healthy!

Well if you can’t move the animals because you don’t have the land to do it, keep it dry and clean!!!! As simple as that! I don’t use any drugs, never had a problem! 🙂

I could listen to this for hours, this is an amazing amount of knowledge being delivered.

This was the most valuable homestead video I've seen. Great density of actionable information in a digestible form.

The best Joel Salatin video I have seen. And I have seen a lot. This is what I like to hear him talk about.

This man literally has a doctorates in overall farming and land management (Edit: & Educator - loved the story of the microbes)!! I consider myself intelligent and a few others do also, having grown up on a farm and I've always walked away from one of Joel's videos learning something that is actually classified as a life skill or a renewed appreciation for our planet and the life put on it!! Thanks!! If I was younger? I would mentor under him on his farm; and although being 50 still might considered it? Farming is really about employing common sense...

A wonderful video full of helpful information in a beautiful setting. A confident brilliant farmer speaking intelligently about basic principles for success. Support small farms!

I remember I was driving past a 100,000 cattle feedlot in Amarillo Texas in September of 2013. It literally spent like a dead steer from 1/2 mile away..

Honestly, there's nothing you can do to keep the vet bill down to 0%. All it takes is one bad disease coming in through a bird or other animal and it has the potential to wipe you out. I ran a cow with my father in laws goats on super green irrigated pasture. He hasn't had a problem in 30 years, but that year he got something really bad. He thinks it came in on a dead raccoon. I brought my cow back and it infected my herd, bad bloody diarrhea. I treated with antibiotics and I didn't lose any cattle, my father in law didn't treat at all and he ended up with a pile of dead goats. He should have had the vet come and visit his herd of goats, he could have saved them.

I'm so grateful for all the people you've introduced me to

You can learn so much from Joel Salatin, good common sense without breaking the bank to do it. Great advice.

The Harry and Matilda story was a roller coaster of emotions!

Love the sensibility of his approach, mimicking nature as much as possible

Amazing speech,very helpful information,thank You sir for your time and efort to teach people the right way tonfarm in sync with mother nature

Uh.. its so so theraputic when im watching your video its like hey im home.. and working away from home makes me wonder can i do this at home can i grow my own food loking forward for more suceeding stories to be feature..yours kids grow so fast, they are so talented and rebekah is really the beautiful one..be safe everyone..

Thanks for this informative lecture by Salatin. He is sch a good teacher.

Mind blown!!! I love this man!

I would love to see his rabbit, pig, chicken setup. Thanks so much for the information!

i have a small flock in my backyard and am practicing deep bedding! Also i never new that chickens dont pee!

I'm thankful that you share your wisdom with us!

This might be the most important video I have come across for animal farming. Waste management is not given enough attention.

Joel is always a mountain of information. I had always learned from the old timers and as well as reading several books that mixing chickens and pigs together was tabu. Mixing salmonella and Ecolli was dangerous. I guess the deep bedding and the ratio of the animals has alot to do with it. I'm sure if Joel were to have a problem it would have happened by now and he wouldn't be preaching about something that caused issues.

Very helpful! Thank you all!

Joel is a true American hero.

Thank you Mr Salatin and thanks Justin! 👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯

Great info-glad to see I have been doing it ALL right for decades

Thank you so for sharing!!!

Thank you both Justin & Joel. Great information

Animals fed their natural diet and not exposed to toxic chemicals will generally live an illness and disease free life.

Blessings to all!

Thank you so much! ❤💚❤

Such a brilliant man!

Thank you for the video brother!

Pro action and preventive instead of reaction. Very wise.

Thanks for the great information!

Very informative. Thank you.

This is a goal of ours here at Alkebulan Farm. Its unfortunate that we have strayed so far from good principles that now we have to teach it to people

Thanks! Great info!

I always learn alot from Joel! he's a genius !!

Thank you

Excellent!

Thanks for sharing

What a great summation.

would really love to see the bedding and the whole setup

Harry and Matilda 😆 A whirlwind romance and tragedy.

It is important.

Beautiful video. It’s funny that he says he is small. My farm is 30 acres. We’re small!

Do you have a list of how you would stack certain animals? We would need to do that over the winter in Canada. We have Goats, pigs, chickens, rabbits, horses

I'm completely going out to my chicken tractor tomorrow and reassessing 🙂👍, wow 😕😩😀, have some thinking to do . Thank you!

Smart man right there

Wow. Awesome

The real deal, Mr Joel #naturalgramma

Sooo ... let me some it up. Be a nomad and always move and learn mazlos hierarchy of needs. The hard truth is we can write the loss rate off in exchange of labor.

Great video

Thank you for sharing all you knowledge and wisdom.

During the Great Depression of the 1920s and 30s, it is estimated that more than 7 million Americans died from starvation. This was during the time when 3 out of every 10 people were farmers. It is now estimated that less than one-tenth of 1% are farmers. Many of my relatives grew up during that despicable period and many of avoided outright starvation by going to their neighbors farm and working for food. I dezcribed that period as despicable, because it was the Federal Reserve banking cartel that cut off credit to businesses. Within the Congressional Record, between 1926 and 1929, the U.S. Congress gave Nazi Germany 150 BILLION dollars in gold. It was the Congress that funded WW2 and were responsible for the Depression.

I would love to see his hoop houses with chicken, rabbits, and pigs.

Ever since this channel turned into one big advertisement I only stay subscribed for the Joel Salatin videos

I add straw on top of poop when I see it, is that giving me a proper combination? I started with wood chips moved into leaves and when I ran out of that I moved into straw. And I learned something new!! chickens do not pee!!!! I had no idea

As the bedding gets deeper do you mix it up occasionally with a pitch fork or leave it alone?

Aloha Justin,Ur Blessed to be friends and ADMIRED by Our Mentor. U R a pro.An insight into Joel,s last stop HOST,,chicken n ducks geese, .. poultry.Thst crop of thiers is a rock tumbling, garbage disposal. Think about what happens to a piece of glass,next to a tapeworm!?! GOOD BYE,LARVAE ,PUPAE,EGGS

How would I incorporate multiple species into a chicken housing that is a 30 × 30 building sectioned into 3 runs - starter, grower, & finish sections with doors on all sides - there's great airflow & ventilation & we can let natural light in daily - the building flooring is a deep bedding system inside & there's a sacrifice outdoor space for the birds to access at will when the doors are opened up. I can't visualize - how would I maybe incorporate rabbits into that setup?

Hope to one day come work with y'all or at least use all your techniques out West. We will see, but we need to escape California first. Another lesson you should talk about is politics, sadly we need more people to understand. People just don't understand why great states like California are going to trash, bad politics makes it too expensive and unlivable.

I can't leave my cattle on the pasture(veld) at night because of theft, they sleep in camps at my backdoor. Problem is the built up of pathogens, I now have to have the cows deliver their calves in the veldt. When the calves are born at night I dose the umbilical cord with iodine. This way of ranching is not common in South Africa.

How do you handle flies and livestock? We’ve got a serious problem with our sheep because of a neighbors swamp pond 😢

What book is he talking about? I want one!

Not naming names, because I love their channels. Also I live near a city and may be completely wrong! Thinking the whole sanitation thing applies- the few cow hoof trimming channels that are around, showing cows with big cracks or abscesses filled with pus in the cows hooves- it’s unfortunate but when I’m watching the videos I’m seeing the animals ankle deep in shit or water mixed with shit. 🤷‍♀️ dunno what point I’m trying to get at but there it is …

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Could a deep bed be made out of cement ? I know he said not forever building, but if you don't have a lot of trees around it can be costly. Any thoughts?

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Are you selling a book with this infor?

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Where can I get the book

I love this information so much. Do you have any comments on the current "forever" chemicals that have been found in soils all over? Could these things be remedied using very focused systems like these in areas?

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What about treating your cows like horses and clean out the stable every day?

In another video I saw Joel mention that they only have chickens on a given patch of ground one time per year in the tractors, to allow the nitrogen to decompose adequately. This dictates that one acre is suitable to raise about 500 chickens in tractors per year. My brainwave while watching this video, is this. Would it be possible to collect charcoal from burn offs, process the charcoal to break it into powder or small granules, and then treat the pasture with the charcoal to bring the ratio closer to 30:1? I can imagine this would be effective, every day whilst moving the tractors, if a bucket of charcoal granules came with the farmer and a handful or two was sprinkled over the area that the chicken tractor had occupied the day before. This might help the decomposition process and enable more chickens to grow out on the same pasture in the same year. I don't have any chicken tractors yet, but if anybody who does, tries this method, please respond with your findings. Thanks.

What book is he talking about?

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can you use corn cobs for bedding?

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I'm a bit new to this. So even if we start out with chickens...we need to move the coop often?

How many acres does joel do all this on?