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Perform Daily Rotational Grazing and Relocate Resources

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What happens here

The core of pastured poultry management involves daily rotational grazing. The presenter shows how to easily move the chicken tractor a few feet forward to an untouched section of grass. Immediately after, the portable electric netting fence is also moved to encompass the new grazing area, ensuring continuous predator protection. Finally, the feed trough and water buckets are repositioned and refilled within the newly accessible pasture. This routine provides the chickens with fresh forage, helps distribute their manure as natural fertilizer, and prevents overgrazing in any single spot.

Goal: This step demonstrates the daily routine of moving the chicken tractor and electric fence to fresh pasture, and subsequently relocating the feed and water resources.

Tools and materials

  • Electric Netting Fence Premier1Supplies — Containing the chickens and protecting them from predators
  • Feed Buckets — Storing and transporting chicken feed
  • Feeder Trough — Dispensing feed to the chickens
  • Mobile Chicken Tractor DIY — Housing and moving the chickens across the pasture
  • Water Buckets with Nipple Waterers — Providing fresh water
  • Chicken Feed — Nourishing the growing chickens
  • Fresh Water N/A — Hydrating the chickens

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we're going to set up our chicken processing area so I want to move my birds as close as I possibly can to that chicken processing area it's approximately 30 yards from where the birds are now I want you to watch this and see how food driven these birds are also if you've ever raised Cornish cross birds you know these birds are inherently lethargic they don't run they don't move they plop down they eat they sit they don't move these birds are different what we're doing here has made them different it's super awesome so literally it's taken me about 45 seconds to take up the entire fence really neat I'm gonna lay it out and drop post so life is all about systems here I've already picked up my fence I've laid it out right here and we'll start sticking stakes in the ground once we get the birds up here [Applause] [Music] here's what the wet or fermented food looks like it's like porridge it's like I guess oatmeal or cream of wheat much more appetizing much more enticing for the birds and as you can see there are some stragglers down there but they'll all flock together you hear me talking to the birds at a very young age I always talk to the birds I always said birdies whenever I was going to feed them and now they know when I say birdy even from the front porch of the house they all come to me because they think it's feeding time look out good I'll get to the chopper this is our mobile chicken coop will this go right up the hill give these guys some shade that's what they're looking for okay so we've got our lightweight mobile coop up here all set up and let's talk a little bit about work a lot of people say man I just don't say it's so much work it's so hard you know those are the same people that are going to the organic food store and paying twenty five dollars a chicken and then going and running on a treadmill against the wall and trying to get exercise when you could be raising your own food and getting exercise and learning instead of running into a wall at the gym what makes more sense to you so here's our food at day one and here

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