Introduce Pastured Meat Birds and Mobile Coop Concept

hey there folks this is josh stoney ridge farmer i've got a chicken with a curiosity right there man check it out so today we're going to have some fun here with the chickens on the farm we're going to show you what we do for our pastured meat birds and we're into december right now typically we would never have meat birds this time of year but we've had a very mild winter and we got some big old meat birds so this is what today's video is about and a little bit of education on our mobile coop system that we use this guy wants the food check it out loves that stuff these are black soldier fly larva come along we'll show you some cool treats very nutritious treats to feed your chickens and we'll talk to you a little bit about our mobile coop setup all right cobble down oh yeah get it done he loves them look at that dude eat them up eat them up all right guys welcome to the farm welcome to the stoney ridge farm what i'm here to tell you is that you can raise your own meat birds on a very small piece of property on about a third of an acre you can do this exact same thing that i'm doing so you don't need a 150 acre farm we are on 150 acre farm we're building a first generation cattle farm pretty cool and we love our meat birds so these are cornish cross meat birds this is a mobile coupe design that i made up it is all pvc construction it's very lightweight i can pull it with a rope and every day we move it to a different block kind of similar to what joel salatin does on polyface farm now these are pastured meat birds pastured cornish cross meat birds they are big old birds these birds are going to dress out somewhere in a six to eight pound range i've had them out here on pasture for somewhere in the neighborhood of 14 weeks so they are big birds they're like little