A Farm Starter Business - Pastured Raised Eggs
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- A look at Charles Mayfield's pasture raised egg business and field setup. Learn how to start a livestock farm in The Farm Business Essentials Workshop - www.farmbusines...
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Awesome video, and an awesome system. He mentioned struggling with the solar panel getting the right amount of sun. I'm thinking that he could certainly place the solar panel up on the roof and keep the charger where it currently is.
Diego, you are crushing at being an awesome human being.
Also I'm starting a farm in Birmingham if you ever want to swing by!
Thanks! There's a chance later this fall. Shoot me an email.
My next chicken house will be on wheels. Love this!!
I love your videos and listen to your podcast everyday. I always learn so much. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience!
Thanks for sharing! Been enjoying your videos and just started listening to your podcasts. Thanks again!
Thanks Daron!
Big Island Hawaii organic eggs from the mainland are about 10$ a dozen, there are no pasteured raised eggs in the store.Local eggs are around 8$ a dozen and are usually pasture raised however most of them feed corn or soy to their chickens.I have found local pasteur raised eggs not fed corn or soy sold in health food store 12$ a dozen.
This a mimic of Joel Salatins operation. Kudos on applying it properly.
great idea and thanks for making a video showing it
I can pay $6-7 a dozen...I buy Pete & Gerry's here in middle TN for $3-4 dozen...combination of grain and pasture fed...very rich colored yolks.
Hey Diego! Nice video. Do the birds just roost on the slats on the floor? Or do they use the steps on the nesting boxes? Maybe you mentioned it and I missed it?
I didn't hear any comment on this question either - good question.
I had this question too.
How many acres does this egg mobile cover / rotate through ?
Very helpful video. Thank you.
What keeps the chickens from flying over the netting?
That net looks like it is from premier one fencing. The chickens 🐓 don’t like jumping up on the fence because it is not solid. They don’t know how to judge it. Most chickens do not challenge it. Now of you had a real flyer of a chicken they might fly out
I have an ISA rooster that lets me pick him up. About the same size as your RIR.
What does an intern do on the farm
Here in upstate ny your lucky to get 2-3 dollars a dozen
What's his daily production? I have a slightly smaller flock that is just beginning to lay. Mine have a run and coop. I supplement their feed with weeds and excess produce from a distribution center.
How is it going with the business?
@@pinchevulpes I had to stop raising them because of issues with the landowner where I kept them. I wish that I was doing eggs now, lol. However, my flock was up to 70+ and I could not produce enough eggs to supply Covid demand. I also charged less than most places because I believe that local food should be affordable and accessible.
@@j.chriswatson6847 so it was the land.. I practically own the land I would be farming on. How did you deal with winters and snow? Thanks
@@pinchevulpes Snow in the Mid-Atlantic is a hit or miss thing but I've worked with livestock longer than I have done my own and seen them through relatively harsh winters. The chickens, considering their origins as tropical and equatorial birds, are pretty hardy, for the most part. The birds with feathered feet are the breeds to periodically check for snow and ice to freeze the their feathers to their feet and cause frost bite. The larger combed breeds are susceptible to frostbite too. However, I didn't have much problems with that. The snow is preferable to cold wind, imo. Snow is ultimately insulative in nature and can help slow heat loss through coop roofs. Also snow is an easy way for them to get water during freeze ups because dry freezes freeze up waterers and the birds have to peck at the ice to eat the small ice pieces. Snow is less work and less work means less environmental stress and fat loss. Remember always that layer birds, heritage, land race, and producer breeds, are essentially egg factories and that they are not going to have high body fat because of their energy expenditures during the laying cycles. That's why they generally only have 1-3 years of reliable egg production in them before they get sickly and die.
As for the cold, all birds have their own down coats, as it were. They fluff up their feathers to trap air and warm it with their body heat. Additionally, they roost close together so they collectively warm up together.
The roosts are important to plan out for cold weather because all flocks have a hierarchy. The younger, more docile, older, and sickly birds are relegated to the lower roosts, roosters included. This is important because heat rises.
Finally, many newcomers to chickens believe that housing needs to be airtight during winter. This is one of the worst things to do. The coop needs to breathe. Too much draft can be bad but some air needs to be able to circulate because moldy bedding, guano, dust, mites, worms, and other pathogenic threats can thrive in coops where there is little air circulation or periodic cleaning.
How many eggs do they produce?
How do y’all think a chicken farm would go in south Florida ?
You’d probably have to find someway to work through those hot humid summers. Maybe only raise in winter?
Diego Footer yea plus rain and everything els Florida comes with lmk if y’all think of something
We had someone near Miami at one of our workshops in the past and he was looking at pastured poultry there. On paper it made sense. I don't see why someone couldn't pull it of after adapting to the local climate.
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are there specs for the coop?
You would have to contact Charles for that, I don't have them.
Thanks
Wow 7 a dozen
Hy hello im new subcrib for you
those are some noisy chickens