Pastured Poultry Profits | 
| Author: Joel Salatin
Publisher: Polyface
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 12865
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 334
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0963810901
Dewey Decimal Number: 636.513
EAN: 9780963810908
ASIN: 0963810901
Publication Date: July 1996
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Product Description
A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agriculture held out such a plum. In a day when main-line farm experts predict the continued demise of the family farm, the pastured poultry opportunity shines like a beacon in the night, guiding the way to a brighter future.
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 outdated too basic info June 19, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have in the past raised tractor chickens & beef and after a slow down in our main income source have decided to do some of this again.
Although this book has some good pointers for the very new farmer, the info for marketing is outdated and written before this writer had any knowlege of the best marketing tool of our time.... the internet.
Frankly, that is what I expected to find here and there was nothing but folksy "sell off the farm marketing", which certainly has its place but is antiquated and the author has a touch of old fashioned farmer arrogance, which is too common in this field and certainly not helpful. I found this for the most part to be too simple, boring and a waste of money.
 Good Grit and Some Clucking May 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
OK - there's no doubt Joel is a very successful businessman - his Polyface Farms has been written up by Business Week (amongst others). This book gives you a great deal of insight into the pastured poultry "enterprise" part of his business and does a pretty good job introducing you to the concepts surrounding raising meat birds.
Pros
* easy read
* generally stays on topic in each section and the book is arranged logically
* offers lots of experiential stories to help the newcomer learn from his mistakes
* sprinkled with his own viewpoint of the world
Cons
* no "exacting" plans for building the pasture coops - rater verbal descriptions and poor black and white photos.
* lots of "factual opinions" with no references to source data (when he starts on the "big industry" for example) some of the science is sketch at best - again no references cited
* sprinkled with his own viewpoint of the world
The last item as both a pro and a con is what seems to polarize folks regarding Joel's books and techniques. The fact is - he's made a truly sustainable model out of farming - from both a land/resource management perspective, a "save the planet" perspective, and frankly - from a dollars and cents perspective.
Take it or leave it - his opinions about a lot of things shine through. If you can not agree with everything someone says - but take the meat of their points and work with them to learn - this is a fairly solid book (but expect to do some extra research if this is your first brush with poultry). If you are someone who is easily put off by strong opinions that may differ from your own - you should avoid this book - and go buy a book on self-esteem and negotiation.
 Great for entrepreneurs September 17, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Very detailed book for agricultural entrepreneurs. Gives specifics for everything from your first purchase of chicks and their housing to slaughter and marketing.
Outstanding book for new to poultry folks as well as "old hats" August 24, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is essential for anyone considering poultry production as a business. Following this book will save time, stress, money and more. Nothing is smooth or perfect, but when using the experience the Salatin's have under their belt will greatly reduce the number of disasters. They took most of the oops's out of the equation.
This book covers in detail everything from why you should go this route, to what the "big hats" do and why that isnt the route to go. He explains in so much detail that I feel after reading this book you can safely gauge whether this business would work for you.
This book contains everything you need to begin today. It discusses the equipment, the government certification requirements, or more accurately what sort of operation doesn't have to deal with those restrictions. He discusses the chicken tractors, how to make them, how to not make them. Discusses seasonal processing, the actual nitty gritty about the processing and more, oh so much more.
I learned a great deal from this book, I was so impressed that I have his Salad Bar Beef on order. I believe this book represents a turn key business. A person purchases the rights to open a fast food chain, you spend 1 mil to have the right to use a clown to advertise your hamburger's and get to tap the experience of everyone that has opened that type of company... this book is no different. The purchase price of the book is a great value when you consider this is experience talking, this shows all of the details, this shows everything including the day to day life and how to find customers.
Sounds to me like the 1 million dollar turn key franchise. Except this is anything but a franchise, he points out family business and not empires are the way to go... and I have to agree with him. He shares this information because he would like to see a lot more operations like the one him and his family (and sometimes even customers) run. He notes that 100 operations in Virginia using the model he shares with us, would be about enough to support the state... yet he is the only one there (at the time of writing this book).
He would like to see these everywhere... people eating healthier, animals that are healthier, people being connected to where their food comes from. I can not say enough good about this book, personally I would like to go work for the author and his family for a couple weeks to learn hands on. I think this is a wealth of information and I await eagerly my Salad Bar Beef book hoping it opens my eyes to a better way to raise my beefalo.
Beginner's Bible May 7, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
All in all, a completely comprehensive view of pasturing poultry from the man who in essence started it all, Joel Salatin. The only problem I have with it is that he needs to go through and update it, as it was written in the '90s and the birds have evolved, giving us a new set of nutritional challenges. WELL WORTH THE MONEY for the beginner interested in getting into the business!!!!!!!!!!
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