Pastured Poultry Profits by Joel Salatin is a business roadmap for small-scale farmers wanting to unlock the economic potential of earning a living from grass-raised poultry.
What is this?
A step-by-step guide on how a couple working together can earn a livable wage from a small pasture-raised flock of hens. The author, Joel Salatin, writes this book as an autobiography, sharing his experience achieving this same goal.
Who is this for?
Anyone looking to start a small-scale poultry farming business and needing a ‘done-for-you’ model and plan for how to do it profitably and sustainably.
What you’ll get?
A clear walk-through of how to set up a small-scale pastured poultry farm on 20 acres of land to earn a livable wage – with little capital investment.
Here are the economics:
- The operation can be run entirely by just two people
- Each bird requires 9 minutes per person for production and processing
- Cost of goods sold is roughly £1.50 per bird
- Sale price of £1 per pound of weight
- Average carcass size 4 pounds in weight
- About £3 yield of profit per bird
- Machinery capital investment about £12K
- 10,000 broiler birds produced and processed within 20 weeks
- The remaining 32 weeks of the year not spent on this business
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Outline:
- Why pastured poultry?
- Getting started
- Out to pasture
- Processing
- Problems
- Marketing
- Possibilities
Not ready for full-on poultry farming yet?
Try raising a small backyard flock of hens with an Eglu Cube.
The Smallholdings Team.
