Polyface Farm Store and Innovative Chicken Tractors

faces farm store here and you can come here and buy their pork their beef I think they have lamb also they've got sausages they've got chicken they've got all kinds of yummy yummy stuff so they sell right to the public here if you want to ride up to this farm once again we're kind of in central Virginia let's go over here and I'll show you a really interesting innovative farm concept so right in here is a big ol rock to keep the port-a-john from blowing away so if you've been on the farm blog long you've seen our new Salatin style PVC chicken tractor and these are the original chicken tractors that were designed by Joel Salatin to move their chickens on pasture now there are no chickens in them right now but the livestock guard dogs are still here and the livestock geese guards are still here check them out so those two geese kind of raised Cain up here and helped protect these birds these birds are still vulnerable to predators settle livestock guard dogs and loud squeaky honking geese or what help protect the chickens cool all right so straight from Polyface farm let's talk about their chicken tractor this is their chicken tractor or mobile chicken coop I believe it's 16 by 16 it holds I think 100 Birds if I'm not mistaken that's 1.6 square feet per bird moved on pasture every day so you can see they have them lined up and they've been basically moving them out on pasture every single day and I think they harvested them somewhere around 2 weeks ago you can see how green and nice and luscious the grass is here no smells no flies no nothing this top comes off this cage and it goes on here and then this top goes right here and these are the types of feeders that they're using at Polyface they're a heavy-duty metal feeder over here very similar to the PVC ones that we have so I'm actually standing inside this chicken tractor and these are a little bit different design than ours our next coop that we build will have an aluminum roof on it and we're also going to provide some sort of insulation now you can see the height of this is about two feet high a lot of folks are fussing and freaking out about the temperature inside of our coop because the birds are so close to the tent well ours is six inches taller than the actual ones here on Polly face and the Polly face birds do great so these guys have done the research smart smart people smart people and now here we've got some ducks so they've got ducks on pasture they're just out of your challenge out on grass…