Tag: pastured poultry
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What is a Chick Brooder?
And how are we improving the Chick Brooder at Good Soil Farm? At Good Soil Farm, we raise our chickens on pasture. That’s what makes them pastured poultry. To “count” as pastured poultry, the birds must be raised on pasture for AT LEAST 51% of their lives. Chickens raised for meat have a relatively short…
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“You Spent How Much on a Turkey?”
~contributed by 2024 turkey buyer Bryan “You spent how much on a turkey?” my wife exclaimed. “I don’t exactly remember,” I said. Which was, strictly speaking, the truth. I did not exactly remember how much the turkey cost, but it was more than I was expecting, and far more than I will willing to admit to my…
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My Tuesday Veggie Dinner Challenge
As you may have noticed, I try to use my mushrooms from the Mushroom Add-On from Davis-Highlands Orchard & Farm on Tuesday nights. This is partly because, you guessed it, I am trying to showcase the mushrooms of the week in case anyone wants to buy some extra on Thursday! But it’s also because it…
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Good Soil? Prove It!
a blog post by Farmer Stephen Prove it We claim to work with the natures of creatures and the relations between creatures using regenerative agriculture practices to work with the soil and help heal the soil. Since many marketing claims are empty–you don’t need to watch Elf to realize the ridiculousness of the gas station’s…
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Moving Chickens on Pasture
Why Move the Chickens? One of the keys to healthy chickens is frequent movement on good, clean pastures. This provides the chickens with bugs, grasses and other greens, sunlight, and fresh air. It ensures that they are never sitting in their own feces. It also helps heal the soil by improving organic matter proportionate to…
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What’s NOT in the Chicken Feed?
Recently we received an email from a customer and friend of ours asking if we knew whether or not the feed we give our chickens is tested for arsenic. We passed this question along to our feed supplier, Josh Ernst, of Ernst Grain & Livestock in Clear Spring, MD. No Arsenic Josh answered, “We have…