How To Pasture Raise Chickens In Tractors | From Brooder To Freezer

A complete season overview of our journey raising pastured poultry, Joel Salatin style. You'll get to see our whole setup including the chick brooders, the mobile chicken tractors, how we move the tractors, how to butcher chickens and shrink wrap them in bags, as well as a look at some awesome poultry processing equipment such as the Featherman Equipment scalder, plucker, and cones.

Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:53 Chick brooders
4:24 Chickens in the tractors, feed, moving tractors
10:08 Getting the chickens out of the tractors for processing
13:31 Info & tips on the tractors
17:12 Featherman chicken processing equipment setup
21:55 Begin butchering chickens, scalder, plucker
27:26 Evisceration / how to butcher a chicken
30:34 How to clean a chicken gizzard
31:38 Shrink wrap and bagging chickens

Links below to some of the products we used and recommend for raising and processing chicken.

Book with all the designs including the chicken tractors, cut lists, building instructions - "Polyface Designs: A Comprehensive Construction Guide for Scalable Farming Infrastructure":
https://amzn.to/3IKma68

10x16 Poultry Shrink Bags: https://amzn.to/3lYdVKH

Knives: https://amzn.to/3IJoeem

Want to support Rooted Deep Farm & Our Family?

You can shop on Amazon using our affiliate link. When you click on our affiliate links and shop for ANYTHING on Amazon (not just our recommendations) we receive a small commission, at no additional cost to you.

https://amzn.to/36hrbiq

For those of you who generously choose to click on our links before you place your Amazon order, THANK YOU. You are financially supporting our channel and farm, and we are grateful for that blessing.