Remember seeing this 5 years ago and I was hooked! My farm is coming soon by the Grace of God!

I've watched a ton of videos on mobile and immobile chicken coops. They are always incredibly expensive or overly complicated. It takes an old farmer to give the perfect solution. Fantastic video.

I want To get back to nature. My maternal grandparents had a small farm and I truly loved it and loved them. Keep up the good work Sir.

Mr salatin Is an example for all farmers to fallow. The way of the future.

Yes I am aware it has been a couple years(first time for me). Very relateable guy. Very knowledgeable. I truly enjoy his way of relaying his knowledge.

I've never been able to listen to Salatin before, I've only been able to read about him! This is wonderful! I love, "Everything is just made just STRONG ENOUGH!"

I was sold in the first few minutes, but when I found out a guard goose can last 40 years I was in heaven. Sign me up!

Everything that exists is information, and everything that is informative also exists. Very nice, simple and low cost practical method with details over much needed basics for beginners like me. Thanks from Pakistan

Dealing with foxes. Foxes will try to dig close to the frame. If you add a 6-9" apron of 1/2" wire hardware cloth, parallel to the ground all the way around the bottom, it will deter the foxes. When you put your dolly under, and lift to move the frame the apron should not interfere with the move. Once set back down, your fox digging deterrent is back in place.

👵🏻😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻🆒🇳🇱and this prepares the pasture to become a foodforest , genius for simple solutions. The world needs men like you.

i like what you said right at the end... "a balance ecosystem... so there is enough food/prey to feed the carinvores" - great idea !

I'm raising chickens for the 1st time this year, using tractors. Second night (between 4am -5am this morning) they were out I had a fox dig under one of my tractors and wiped-out 40 birds. Half my birds gone. Going to fortify my other tractor and maybe get more chicks to help recover my losses. I hope others have better luck than I'm having!

Jeff this was a great video, it helps to learn from one of the masters.

This is the way it should be done. Like for the past 200 years.

Thanks for posting this video. I've been wondering Joel's view on predators. Cheers!

To elaborate a little further on the chicken wire solution. The chicken wire is placed along the outside perimeter of the pen laying flat on the ground. It extends out from the wall 2 feet on the ground. When the varmint tries to dig under the wall, it is standing on the chicken-wire and scratches into it (it can not dig into the soil) This is used on many stationary pens where the owner will lay the wire into ground covered with a few inches of soil. There are solutions to concern when using large mesh wire as a flooring damaging the chickens feet, eg smaller mesh size, chasing the chickens into the roost and keeping them there while moving the trailer, & so forth. Where there is a will there is a way.

Wow, this guy is a fount of knowledge.

Not that you need to make this any simpler, but if you suspend the feed, or somehow attach it to the side of the pen you can move the pen without removing the food first. Also, add some wheels to the pen and you dont have to lift them every time and potentially hurt your back. :) Great video

I did an identical process as Joel in UK as a Hobby on a piece of land for Eggs and Meat + Fertilise the land. Fantastic Eggs, fantastic vegetables.

Eryn, you know wheels were thought of. The problem is that raising the pen off the ground invites accidents with chicks, and even worse; it invites predators.

what a great farmer! i know they last longer but surprised he uses pressure treated wood with the added chemicals to the material. i guess it's safer now than they used to be but everything we build for our garden like raised beds or chicken runs uses non treated wood. that being said, they definitely need repaired more often.

if you ever had chickens you would know that you have to clean the feeder regularly. chickens have bad manners. if you attach the feeder then you have to unattach it to clean it. mr joel has the right idea. watch and learn. fellow organic free range farmer

A back yard 6x8. 24 birds per. 2 cycles a season. All the Chicken (or Duck) a small family needs on small acreage. One bird a week for dinner, give or take. Hella lighter. 1/3 the cost. You can do this, folks.

At 1:40, Joel exaggerates a bit with his comment that using steel roofing "...adds 200 pounds of weight". In fact the total weight of using steel roofing is around 80 pounds. I'm not sure of the thickness of the aluminum he uses but at its lightest it would be 35 pounds making the difference, if using steel, a maximum of 45 pounds. Heat transfer issue is maybe a better argument for aluminum. In my area Aluminum is just not readily available so I'll be adding a 1/4" sheet of foam insulation under the steel roofing. I hope it works!

That was great. I learned a lot from this video. Thank you. Peace:)

Can we just appreciate that every lady in this video has beautiful legs. Just beautiful. Gotta love a country girl.

Feed the predators. Never heard that put in such a way. Seems very wise.

How do you gather the eggs? Would moving the structure damage layed eggs?

Hello! If there are long periods of rain, for example 4-5 days, and the pasture is soaked, how do we keep the chickens from getting wet and sick while in the chicken tracktor? If we don't have a dry shed built nearby, is there a solution related to the construction of the chicken tracktor?

One person can move 60 cages holding 75 birds each = 5,000 birds in 1hr. 10x12 by 2ft high. They start at 3 weeks old and they are processed 5 weeks later. Each cage puts down 200lbs of nitrogen each day per spot so they have to moved daily.

*_"Wheras a goose they'll just keep on goosing"_* ahah

Love your work Joel. You want it real light, try bamboo!

"...Millenium feathernet model" 7:20 lol!

After I move my tractor through the pasture I sprinkle daikon radish and winter rye seeds into the Pelosi the chickens leave then emulsify the Pelosi and seeds and inject them into the ground with a needle jet on the garden hose. Works great

We had raccoon that actually ripped through the chicken wire. ALWAYS use hardward cloth. Chicken wire isn't strong enough for a hungry critters.

Where can we get this floor plan & how to video at? I'd pay you Joe!

Feeding the predators with the ecosystem around the pasture.. brilliant!

This man has it figured out.

He does do it in under a minute - starts at 00:23

Trying to see how it's a good idea putting a ceiling 6" from a naturally roaming animal's head. I don't care what the excuse /list of benefits is.

What is the combination of species planted for pasture? It would be good to know when living in desert or semi-desert where the vegetation is bushy.

Great lecture.

Awesome video! What I’m interested in is how snow, ice and sub freezing temperatures affect Mr. Salatin’s livestock operations. Can anyone give me a link to info on this? Thank you.

Joel mentions in several of his video's about using aluminum panels. Any idea where to find them, all I seem to be able to find is steel.

We've got bull snakes in our area that are the biggest problem we face. If a rooster fights back the snake strangles him. Eats eggs keeps em stressed. Mice here also but they just eat some of the food. I think a smaller chicken wire might be good. Not sure.

why does he stagger the tractors? Do they have to all be one behind the other? Can you stagger them back and forth so the are roughly in line?

Small stumps and small bush would make moving that troublesome. I'm thinking same model but about 5 inch's elevated achieved with permanent back wheels.

Thanks for posting these videos Jeff. We had a great time with Joel and Daniel then. I'm glad you videoed it. Do you have any video of the chicken processing and when we went up to the pig pastures?

So much great information. Thanks for this. Im from indonesia and our farmers dont use this farming design but im planning to.

how do these compare to the use of the egg mobile? I thought the chickens follow the cow paddocks and pick out larvae from the patties?

new farmer from Greece here. So every day he moves the chickens in a different spot for 8 weeks until they grow enough?

Buenos días, me gustaría conocer más de su sistema, tienen literatura o videos en español, los felicito me ha encantado su sistema y quiero hacerlo lo antes posible en mi granja en el Huila, Colombia

Joel says that there is 200 lb of manure per spot, but that math doesn't work out because that would be almost 3 lb of manure for each of 75 birds... If a Cornish cross eats 14 lb over his life cycle that translates to about 7 lb of manure times 75 chickens that math doesn't work out to 200 lb either...

Anyome know where he gets them waterers at? I can't seem to find them.

do free range chickens eat less feed? I had chickens and had to give them up cause of feed expense..............................

Thank you very much for posting this! Very helpful. Do the chickens stay in those all night? or are they moved to coop at night? Oops, just heard him say they are in there at night. Extremely helpful. Geese for guardian; never would have thought. So these are meat birds I suppose. Any input on winter months? We just rescued 23 hens and 1 rooster from neighbor that had to suddenly leave. Have appx. 4 feet of snow and still coming. Struggling with dusting and how to let them scratch. Any input appreciated.

So how much bought feed is being saved by grass feeding the chickens?

I suspect if you had one of these in a suburban backyard, the city raccoons would learn quickly to go through the roof, since they've learned to take the lids off garbage cans.

This guy is getting rich off of teaching people common sense

Do they have dust baths inside? or how does he handle mites?

wood is cheapest 8 x 8 lengths. make it 8 x 16 if u need slightly bigger & put a metal piece strip underneath your 2 by 4's floor so it will slide easier when u want to move it. A slightly larger lifting utility attachment with bigger/wider wheels will offset any weight issue. make the mechanism do the work. But, he's got what works for him & others I understand that. A blessing to learn from one who actually does it. And he doesn't see the predator because they don't stay to get caught just eat. He's only fooling himself about predators getting his livestock not being a problem. 99% of all predators will dig under with no problem. They just aren't living or desperate enough to need his livestock yet. provide enough other food options is your best bet. But, it doesn't matter if they want those chickens there going to get them!

I wish he was louder I have my volume all the way up

Hey I have a question. I saw a video where Joel is talking about using a goose to protect the free range chickens could you please tell me if I should use a male goose or a female goose or does it matter?

I gotsta know, where my place is in north central Texas we have sugar sand top soil for 12-24", and fire ants love it. I've also got a fair amount of copperheads and rat snakes. How does a system like this work with challenges like that? Also, I saw where you had a deep bedded chicken and rabbit deal going. I think that's cool too, but I've noticed that those pesky fire ants in my area tend to like mulched beds as well. When I was a kid we had rabbits, and I lost my prized show bunny to them and my sister lost two of hers as well. They mound up really quickly and can appear out of nowhere it seems like. I'd like to get the farm productive instead of continuing with our prize winning sticker crop, but I'm worried about those stupid ants getting my birds and rabbits.

Make them out of 4in pvc drain pipe. Last longer an lighter. Good video.

Anyone able to find a source for the metal (supposing one can't locate it used - obviously)?

Awesome! If you’d take time to get a metal frame welded right such as the 10’ x12’ and the chicken wire welded on the side and adding a 3” slope to one side of your cage then welding the roof and adding a door you can be sure that it will last for a long time....

Excellent job and video

do farmers pay less taxes because of the farmland, or maybe no taxes because it is farmland,?

yea... dude i with i'd have watched this video before i built my tractor... AND I even did my research. Designed it in sketch-up, got real-life measurements to minimize waste, bought everything new. had a grand-plan for a beautifully functional and aesthetic tractor, dropped $200 bucks and a day's labor and the damn thing ended up being just too damn heavy to move, even with the too-small-sized wheels which didn't give it enough clearance so it would hang up on anything but the most pristeinly flat terrain. It was too heavy, too long (twisted) and my spiffy, flip-down hinged axle didn't raise it high-enough off the ground as is, and the wheels didn't have enough surface area for the weight so it would constantly bog-down. Eventually, it just wore me down. Daily became bi-daily. bi-daily became tri-daily, then 'well i'll move it every week. I let them free range after-all'. Then the damn hinge broke and i said screw it and stopped moving it. Then it became so gnarly and rancid underneath that the chickens stopped bedding down in it at night and opted to sleep in the damn TREES.

if you fin old pool like a ubuvgrond one tin on it is grant rily lint but strung and wther porof

I take issue with the fact that he’s saying predators will not climb on top that chicken coop. I have a 6 foot tall chain-link fence dog pin I use for guineas and a predator climbed on top got through a small opening and killed two of my guineas. So predators do and will climb.

Smart man!

Jeff, great vid! Can you please add Close Caption to it? Thank you!

Me as a plumber watching this surprised to find out you can’t repair pvc

How can we buy directly from you ?

Just what is it with the little white cup?

Wow what state is this

I don't know much about chickens yet but I do know he wrote the bible of chickens

Thank you for the video.

Thanks for a great vid! Subbed for sure.

IN WHAT CLIMATE AND TEMPERATURE IS THAT PREDIO, THANKS

The ground has to be perfectly flat by cultivation and u remove all rocks

Excellent

On a hot summer day I have seen these Cornish chickens faint from the heat out in a open field no trees under a steel roof one foot above the chickens head totally insane

What happens with the shelters when is windy?

Wish your microphone was better ♥

Turn audio please.

Where is Joel Salatim's farm located?..State, City. Thank you!

Where do I get those feeders?

How many chickens could be raised per year like this on one acre say. I’ve listened to what Joe said but sure if he meant yearly. Thanks

Do you offer vacations on your property? Boy, I sure would like to come there and enjoy your farm and the chickens. Of course respect the land.

Joel puts the chickens out at 2-3 weeks old (4:45)? I'm wondering at how many he loses at that rate.

Where do you keep the chickens in the first 2-3 weeks?

What's the best way to get these birds out on butcher day?

Why don't u use steel for the tractors ane specific reason besides the weight

Did he say don't use PVC?

Once they are in the tractor do they in them even overnight for the full 5 weeks?

I still prefer to just put mine on my garden so they can get all the bugs they can from all around the garden.

How Who do you keep hawks and other airborne predators away from your free range chickens