Table of Contents

About Polyface Farm
1. The Pastured Poultry Opportunity
2. What is Wrong With the Poultry Industry?
3. Fat Animals, Fat People
4. Family Background
5. Getting Started
6. Choosing A Breed
7. The Brooder
8. Starting the Chicks
9. Ration
10. The Pen
11. Moving the Chicks Out to Pasture
12. Pasture Logistics
13. What Kind of Pasture?
14. On-Farm Slaughter: The Advantages
15. Slaughter Mechanics
16. Composting Slaughter Wastes
17. Inspection
18. The Learning Curve
19. Sickness and Disease
20. Predators
21. Weather
22. Stress
23. Troubleshooting Poor Performance
24. Shortcuts
25. Seasonality
26. Solving Your Own Problems
27. Marketing

About the Author

Joel Salatin and his family own and operate Polyface Farm in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces pastured beef, pork, chicken, eggs, turkeys, rabbits, lamb and ducks, servicing roughly 6,000 families and 50 restaurants in the farm’s bioregion. He has written 14 books to date, is editor of Stockman Grass Farmer Magazine, and lectures around the world on land healing and local food systems. Polyface Farm operates a formal apprenticeship program and conducts many educational workshops and events.