1 hr PASTURED POULTRY MASTERCLASS S5 ● E55

so busy weekend we had a awesome weekend for pasture poultry master class looking on Saturday all day at pasture layers and then Sunday pasture boilers and turkeys looking at all aspects of running these enterprises different ways you could go about it looking at all the numbers looking at all the HACC plans all the documentation we basically given everyone a blueprint to go start their businesses and super-nice people from all over Europe America and Hawaii come in just for the weekend and it we had a lot of fun we ended up doing a practical outside slaughtering pen of birds and getting everyone hands-on throughout the whole thing people did the morning moves of everything and got a good sense of you know other things going on at the farm so today's video is just a few clips just to give a flavor of that and that should we recorded the whole thing on video it's gonna take a while to edit but we're gonna release that to the course participants and then also put it into our farm scale permaculture design course which we're hoping to release on subscription to everyone the whole course will be released immediately so for one month subscription you'll be able to take the entire training if you want to if you're lacking in funds it's going to be basically the most comprehensive small-scale whole system design training and business planning out there and it's going to be available for everyone all over the planet and extremely low cost so I'm super excited for the development of that and it's going to be released in the coming weeks hopefully [Music] removing these guys every two days because the we're trying to basically take this land down from the neighbor and we don't expect and you know we have to respect the wishes of the landowner his request is that we really graze to the edges take it right down and make sure no young trees are coming back into the pasture so little strips for intensive trampling manure load and taking that time we're actually aiming to spend the next eight ten twelve days in here if we can we're just extending it as long as we can and following up with turkeys who are spending a couple of days in each spot and leaving its with a lot of manure and the bit of ground cover trampled down but just really taking our time and wait and see if we're getting the land cut on the other side so there's a few Hector's in the field here a few Hector's in the field up here that goes back up to the formula cows are happy [Music] Toby doesn't happy because the rain just got put back till next week get in the water down carrots coming up Magnus away hi little man we're getting over thousand eggs a day so it's a lot to handle and the picking of the eggs now makes the packing much quicker so we do a bit of work in the field and that saves a bunch of time over there so we're taking up feed so I was saying we're giving the birds a hundred and thirty grams each a day that equates to two buckets each egg 'mobile in the morning one it's feeding time now that will help distract the birds and then one at 3:30 when we close the nests up so this will help keep them out of the egg 'mobile while we're packing away that's an important one we left otherwise you're too cold you better run and find the jumper it's mentally yet and you might find a jumper you can find you in the right shoes as well these egg crates are industry standard you buy them in Italy in Europe and they stack like this so you can fit six trays 180 eggs in each one and you can't put more than six trays in if you put seven in and then put that on it will squash the whole thirty each tray of eggs is worth 11 euros so every egg counts like we're talking about the eggs that go down on the ground like a few each day is normal because there's birds that lay too early or too late at night or whatever but you need to keep real detailed records because you know five eggs a day 35 a week times that by year it all starts adding up right these little trays are good because the hygienic and if you saw eggs in two trays then it's very easy to flip them into cardboard and it's quicker that you don't have to handle every individual egg so the aim of the game is to have clean eggs because you're not allowed to wash eggs here in America you have to wash eggs often with chlorine the chlorine in the water so different regulations been Europe you're not allowed to clean eggs so these trays you see they have like plastic at one end and nothing on this side they stack up opposite and that's how you know that they're sitting nicely they won't crush each other and then they become very resilient we can bump around the field in there not gonna break and will then transfer these later we'll do the packing later and grading and record-keeping and look at what we do there and we stack them back in these with cardboard trays and then this is what we use first storing and then delivering so we have a lot of these crates and what you'll notice the reason they are important and special for egg collection is that they have gaps down the side so you can lift a tray of eggs or a whole just stack of eggs and put them in so it's an important detail you don't need this when you're starting out you know if you're starting out with a smaller number of hens you can just make do with what you got but as you scale up you want more efficient assistance poultry master bath and hawaii america and today we're looking at pasture layers and then tomorrow we're doing turkeys and like this tray is pretty good i'm gonna basically take that down off and I would use sandpaper to take away this will come off by easily with sandpaper I'll flip them and if they're the same yet away stamp them gone so I can do you know I'm sorting thirty eggs in seconds and in the old days we used to handle each egg and really look at it but just by doing a bit more sorting now it saves us huge amount of time so it should take less than an hour to sort a thousand eggs and stamp them and do the record-keeping that's a little cracked and it's in the sorted tray for for eating so this is fine first week because it's not broken through the actual membrane yeah but there were some dirty eggs in there that didn't get sorted out and there are more than six trays in here so if I stacked another one on top I would break all the ones on the top so it's little details that's you know you have to learn by making mistakes but it's three and a half meters wide it's four point eight meters long and that accommodates a four meter roof sheet which is the standard sized roof sheet here that just is easy this is about two and a half meters what's important with this so it's the caravan chassis and Caravan chassis is a superlight they're just one tube on each side and it's good to have a really strong jack on here this is like off the knife of Williams trailer it's just good quality British thing but you imagine you can build this nice balanced trailer and then there might be four hundred chickens all at this end and they weigh six seven hundred kilos people always ask like does it get too hot if it's black any metal sheet gets hot it doesn't make any difference how air is going out the roof so we use black because that's the only thing they sell like the easiest thing is to have a four wheeled trailer that you can just hook onto you wherever you're pulling it with and there's no weight on it we wanted to build these cheap fifteen hundred euros fifteen thousand crowns each of these Eggman bills is turning over thirty five thousand euros in a year if I can build it for 1500 euros I'm in a good stand you can buy fancy automated ones but it might cost you fifteen twenty thousand euros can you afford to pay that off can you afford to buy it in the first place and can you afford to pay it off with eggs you need to look at the numbers so for me I want to build stuff out of scrap wood this is all free timber from the timber yard that we get all our wood from I bought the metal mesh this is four mil wire with 40 mil gaps that you need that it supports all of feet so you can see when they walk in it it supports their toes but it's big enough to let all the [ __ ] through you don't want to have a small mesh or it'll be dirtiness so we never clean this out really it's like totally dropping through where you want it on the pasture three words a little bit of cost in metal sheets and these roof screws you need to keep it waterproof so there's two ways to hold hems one is to support the keel and wings the other is to hold him by the feet it doesn't hurt them and they relax any bird hung upside down will relax you can walk a few hundred meters comfortably it wasn't doesn't hurt it just chills out it holds its head up so the blood is not concentrated in its head but that's you know standard way to catch birds is catch him by the feet or hold them to support them that they're not flapping their wings and it's interesting to feel these birds like look you can see the keel as they are tiny they have no breasts this is about 1.6 1.7 kilos so it's the birds in the roller pens the roller boilers they're already much heavier than this and yet this one can pump out an egg every day we've never lost a bird inside the pen like this we've lost two predators that came out the fence so you see a couple escape because we didn't bother putting the pegs in popper sometimes we're a bit lazy it's like if we don't have to put pegs in we try not to because it's just saves time it's more you know it's double the bending over to pick up all the pegs it doesn't seem like much but when you're doing all these manual jobs quickly and running around doing all kinds of things then it's you know we avoid it if we can but it does mean some get out now I said yesterday I say again there's 400 chickens in a small space 250 meter Nets so this strip is 9 meters wide that means it must be 41 meters long so what's up three six four hundred square meters is it 360 thing so that's how much space they have today that change is obviously according to the width of the fence but basically I've got 250 meter Nets and that's good for up to the 400 Birds but you should move them every day or two if it's like really wet I might move them every day just because they'll be impacting the ground a lot more right now on the ground is super dry I need recovery I'm going to remove them as slow as I can I could even just move the egg 'mobile up to there leave them a bit longer you know I'm managing it according to what I see on the ground and what's happening on the ground where they're going in the future too but we've never lost birds to predators in this scenario because I think it's just too intense you know it's too confusing and too risky to dive-bomb this many creatures and also I train them with the drone and also train in my game now they're still scared they often not scared of me because they're like arunya's him so they just don't bother but in the first days they come they've come off a barn floor they've never seen grass they've never seen an egg 'mobile they've never seen someone like Niels and you know they don't know what's going on and so they never heard anyone speak in English so they're like so what we do when we introduce birds is we put them in the egg 'mobile we put some food and water in there they're mostly just startled and they don't want to eat and drink much anyway they just want to sit there and we just leave them overnight and we let them out in the morning and then that night we put a light inside just like a battery-powered lump and first night they're all in roosting now at that time it was end of April they were in at 9:00 something now it's 11:30 in the middle of the summer and now it will get earlier and earlier but someone has to be away to come close them up okay and that gives them an extra level of security that you know typically a fox will come in the night or in early morning there's no way a fox can get them they're inside the egg 'mobile with a mesh floor and a closed door and they've got an electric fence so you you're totally predator proof that scenario here like you want to check the fences like it's good to take a little battery tester a fence tester and just learn about you know how much shorting out is okay and you know some people come along and cut the grass with the mower to put their fence up that is not something you want to be doing like it's better to bring a cow along who cuts the grass and then eat the cow or whatever it is like you don't want to be doing manual work just to put a fence up so you can squash it down with your feed you squash it down with the Rhino when we were in front field last the grass was up here it was a jungle and so I just drove along the tree line with the Rhino just to make it a bit squash down that we could then squash it more with our feet to get the fence up so it takes a bit longer to move then because you've got to get the ground down but you don't want to be cutting the grass that's crazy so number one number two number three so I know which there's two boxes for every egg 'mobile right can you hear okay yeah so the basic setup I have here is a bucket underneath me and any eggs that are going to break a drop one here not on the floor I'm trying to keep the floor keep clean and tidy so that one can go to pigs later with any vegetable whatever so I've got a bucket under my feet I've got a sandpaper block you can use different types of sandpaper blocks but these thin ones are nice because they're very flexible I've got my egg stamp which is a production number that's once the eggs the right way up blop makes a little stamp and so you've got pop-up and and I've got some tissue paper up here in case I do drop anything I can wipe it up I've got egg cartons up here I've got eggs everywhere and that's all I need I've got some masking tape so I can write the dates on things and I've got my record keeping up there I've also got scales here to weigh straight and I've got a Candler for looking inside the egg and I'm looking for micro cracks can you see the air sac there next to the light that that will grow as the egg gets older so you can tell the age of an egg by seeing how big the air sac is but this will detect micro cracks that your eyes can't see but personally I can feel them if I handle an egg I don't use it very much technically you meant to but what they do to check that is they come and check like 400 eggs and they will look at each one and if you have more than like two cracks then they can shut you down but when they come they never find quite dense and that's because I've got like a sensitivity of handling you know if you do this every day for a cup you know eggs like no one knows eggs so you can even see things that aren't even there on the eggs yeah so what I'm doing is I've got egg mobile number one next to me and any half complete a tray that's not full I'm leaving it to the side to fill in any I discard out of here so now I'm focused on full trays and I'm looking above that any that need my attention like this one's got some yolk on it and I can just rub that off like so and I'm gonna do the same for the bottom half so all it down has hopefully gone but this one didn't get done it's got dust on the top there's got down on it and you see down just flies around so you imagine if you had all the down on all the eggs and the doors closed it's just going around and it ends up back in the eggs over there somewhere so it's no good so I'm basically scanning through everything I can see the sorts of eggs that might have a micro crack now if I'm collecting eggs I know I haven't put any cracked eggs in because I'm feeling them as I pick them up and I'm you know I'm picking up six at a time but I can feel and hear if they bang together I can hear sonically badness not good so if I've done the packing the collecting I know what I'm dealing with as it were basically I'm ready to flip these I'm happy with that I'll take a tray and you pop them on top flip it over make a stack with them so they're all stacked up nice now I've got a cracked one on the bottom that's a B egg so I will start a B egg collection over here and if you're unsure of cracks you can really see them can you see how the little hairline crack comes out now if you just look at this you see that middle bit you don't see the hairline crack but you get used to feeling hairline crack over there isn't a big crack but these are B eggs I can eat that the the membranes not broken it's not losing air or you know there's no bacteria can get in so I'll eat that for breakfast tomorrow so that's my B tray over there and now as I turn them over I see dirty ones like that's too dirty for me in here this one's fine for me to clean in here so that just got rejected to be egg status or whatever I'm taking off any down this one that's dirty too there's quite a lot of dirty ones here and I'm taking from my spare tray over here to fill them up and now these eggs are certified so I'm saying these eggs are all good and I stamped them like so hang up once I've stamped I'm stacking up nice and they go different ways each time so you've just got to learn like the visual thing of like I hand this one is going this way and we get two stacks of six and then I can put them back in these white crates just for weighing if you're not selling by weight you don't need to know the weight I'm selling eggs for the same price of a tray whether they weigh 200 grams more or less I don't care the what the statistic is is they want to know how many kilos of eggs you produce a year so you don't need you could just weigh this and you know that six yellow things and this weighs that that would be the easiest way to do and what I'm doing with any BX then is I'll take them up to the kitchen and if there's CX like if eggs come and they are really like the one I just smashed I threw it in here didn't know if the eggs are too smashed I'll just drop them straight in there or if they got [ __ ] on them or they're just really dirty I just throw them because I also don't want to take really dirty eggs to the kitchen because you don't want to be cracking an egg with [ __ ] on it into a nice clean omelet and then like a big lump of poo goes in the middle and so we have enough eggs that we'll just get rid of them like if you have less hands you might be a lot more careful because you're dealing with you know like that but what I need to do then right because I'm building up my stacks I'm gonna put these back for you lot to do though because otherwise it'll be unfair to team two and three and what I need to do is finish each tray to the top so egg 'mobile one I need to know how many eggs egg 'mobile one mate right so in my egg collection data I have egg mabu where are we July now so I have a sheet for flock one flock to and flock three so first I need to know what each flock Glade and how many were broken and how many were be eggs feeds flock so I can see how did different flocks compare but then in the actual eggs storage I need complete trays so yesterday's tray I don't know which egg 'mobile looks from it doesn't matter actually because yesterday's trays not full so it's got a date on it so I know when it's from so what my job is then is once I've stock taped what each egg 'mobile is done now I have to consolidate them so that each of these is full with six complete trays and there's one last tray that's not complete and then I take that one and put it into yesterday's to fill yesterday's up it's okay for today's eggs to go to yesterday's obviously not the other way around because it's a shelf-life thing so then the eggs get stored over here and it means that every single tray this way should be totally full and on the date that it's labeled Niels is doing it so I don't know but like this is I wouldn't take that out first Council in the egg but I took that little muddy picture from those fine so we're smoking chickens for tomorrow's dinner and we've gone for birds of the equal size so 2.2 average although there's a three kilo button here and we've just skewered them with this needle through the breasts out the back to enable us to hang them up on a hook and it's important the birds don't touch when they're smoking they will get funny skin and stick together the I've just lit a fire so we're using alder spawn all the sawdust at naught to two millimeters that's ideal for this kind of smoking and I've lived a small fire with pine just to get the embers glowing I've put the sawdust in a kind of snake shape we're having one big pile it's gonna burn along from one end to the other and that's important for the temperature we the first test we did we had big pilot went up to 100 degrees and sat there for hours and hours which is overcooking the chicken here we can read the temperature and on the back we have a thermostat that is set for 72 Celsius so it seems to sit about 74 degrees which is ideal with we bind these in 10 percents solutions so 20 liters of water for seven chickens and that's 2 kilos of sea salt it's really important to use good quality salt and they had about 15 hours we drained them let them sit in the chiller and then now we're going to smoke them for about 20 hours I would say so 7 o'clock now so we'll take them out in the afternoon and well we won't take them out we'll turn the smoke off and leave the door open it'll still be smoking so flies won't go in we'll let it cool in the smoke which is better for the flavour and we'll have them for dinner tomorrow night yes very nice so I normally hang them in then like the fire just because there's obviously smoke billowing out but because we're a bit pressed for time and just put them in what will happen is the temperature will go up to 72 or something around 6070 very quickly he was saying it has to reach this temperature in 4 or 5 hours but it goes up in 10 minutes because it's so fire in an insulated box Hey ok but the temperature will fall back down again when the fire goes out and well then we'll shut the door up so right now I want oxygen in there to get the fire but I'm hanging these away from the actual fire because I don't want fat dripping on the fire it will send up rancid fumes and with this few birds I can just have the fire over here but once we get this full of 50 chickens we need to have fat trays that collect the fat and stop it dripping in the fire so we're in testing phase and this is we've had a few successful tests now so this should go well I'm confident and I will just monitor the temperature throughout the night and when I go to bed I'll check it and when I wake up I'll check it to check the safe and then we'll probe the birds breast at the deepest point in the tissue to make sure it's cooked we're up early today we're doing morning tours we're doing hens before the others get here it's half past five and normally we're doing this at six o'clock because moving hens is time-sensitive and obviously there's light coming through the bottom of the egg 'mobile and the hens want to get out and that's the one downside of hens in this climate is they don't go to bed till 11:30 in the middle of the summer and they want to get out again at 6:00 and so it's a time pressure thing because we have had experience with birds crushing each other against the door wanting to get out it's we're having an automatic opener might be useful but in our case we just get up and get the chores done and so in this segment we've got a bottom facing door so there's less risk of crush eventually because they're sitting on the door we rather than sitting against the door so we just feed and open the nest boxes in this one because we're actually going to move two of the others now we're going to look at the ground and we might only actually move one because the ground is not recovering at this time so that's open that's good I'm just checking if there's any problems anywhere in the egg 'mobile yeah we're gonna maybe move the other two but because the ground is not recovering because of the drought we're having here we're actually trying to slow down the movement of the birds as much as we can one thing we can do if the birds haven't impacted a nice bit of ground it's just move the egg 'mobile along rather than change the whole planet just to spread the manure load because here for example is a patch where an egg Nabil sat last time so each time we come through we're trying to move the egg 'mobile to a different spot but you see the relative difference in the vegetation here it's very dense patch of still rapidly growing vegetative grass so just by moving the egg 'mobile and leaving the fence we can spread them in you alone but yeah today is the second day of the pasture poultry training and we're focused on pasture boilers and turkeys and what you're going to do a group of iterations get everyone getting their hands on and so Toby and I and eels are up early just to move the chickens and feed the turkeys and then we're gonna meet the crew at 6:30 and deal with the boilers nice and slow to get everyone used to the Salatin style pens as well as the role of heads and so we leave this fence and set up the next fence ready for them to come running through this is kind of whilst the ground is not recovered it's ideal for these young birds it's not too tall for them and they're only six weeks old so they're still babies but it's very vegetative that it's perfect forage for such young birds now they know they're going to move so they we have to work a little bit Swift and we have an opening up here so we can open this into the new pen as soon as we're ready and we're using a 50 meter and a 25 meter fence and they will get both of them as a full extension as they grow now but you see they're not getting the full 50 meters and so what we're actually gonna do is play with adding another fence that goes from there to here up and connect back in it's obviously got to be long enough for the four pens well each pen is a Salatin pen with a wheel on it so it's four by three so you can see it's 16 17 18 meters so we've got to know we have 18 meters in this case I think we're gonna take a 25 meter from here to here and bring the end of that fence to meet it and it will be just long enough to get all the Pens in now because we've got 18 plus 7 meters to be able to do that so it works so we lay the fence out and then we get it up as quick as we can they might start crashing the fence soon because they know we're gonna move they know the grounds good over here you see they're foraging and there's no electric in the fence so let's get going so we always start you know we stop here and go this way we're joining onto the fence here and then we're going to bring the end of the fence to it and then every second day we're setting up a new 50 so he has to he has to bring the fence here Lucas you need to bring the end here so that we know like we'll take this bit away as we let the birds through but we need to know it's in the right place so this is where it starts and so when we get two sections across then you can head 90 degrees that way and so Simon do you want to put that corner post in where it was there and then I can take this away and we'll let the birds through as soon as he's got that fence up so someone can follow Lucas and start putting that up I'll take this out the way and we can take these two bags of feed and we want to put them down the middle here in a long line and the reason we're doing it precisely in the middle is then we can pull the Pens over the top of the birds who are going to be focused in on eating food so nice and evenly and you'll start in the middle and you can see where how long it is you want to be in a straight line here straight up really straight and we're tensioning the bottom of the fence really well so nice and straight are you guys you should make one line right down the middle because now we're going to be in danger of squashing all the birds this kind of productive and we're using the old fence to create a guide for them I would put it on the inside money and so you see the birds become self moving and then we just start unlocking the wheels they have a little screw through the spokes to stop them moving and then we have to come along and carefully move the Pens over them without squashing a bird now this must be done it can be done swiftly but it must be done well because if you run over a bird you kill it most fields died of internal bleeding and so this is where the feeding was really not very optimal like one line down the middle means the birds are very concentrated that you can basically walk quite fast over them because these birds aren't as responsive as something like a lay ahead and they'll just sit here and so it's a little bit logistical this morning but you get the idea they move themselves they're eager to get on fresh ground and they will move on their own without food but obviously when there's food they will stay there too so then we're just getting the fence up the back we're trying to keep it quite tied up to the to the structures and because this isn't a natural connection I need to sort of plug that under there and I'll just tighten it back up again with this one we want to get this water to the middle of the pen so I need to actually enter again here and we'll pull it all the way to the the middle where it's accessible to the maximum amount of birds so we're keeping tied up against the tree Lane and I'm staying low to the ground and I don't need someone to watch I just need to check every now and again and just give the birds time to catch up so we can do this job swiftly without rushing like we don't want to rush the birds we want them to be stress-free and I'm not even seeing under there but I know a lot I'm not crushing any I can also hear the birds alright but I feel like I'm in control I know I'm not squashing anything and if there's someone with me I can have them watch out as well but if I don't have someone with me I need to look or I need to wait ideally I look and wait but do you see they want to come forward is that me on fresh ground that so then I come back I put the feeders in ready for ease I'm feeling yeah ideally I don't spill all the water but I'm right in this kiss and then I'm on the next one so it really doesn't need to take long like I can move all these pens like 10 pens in 20 minutes but the key with these is just to learn to be confident with moving I'm just gonna do it again I don't really need to be looking at the birds because I know that it's anything if there's going to be a foot under there and it's not gonna hit it because it's off the ground but likewise pulling it out like once the dolly is in a good position it's a swift rapid thing it doesn't need to take like we don't need to be careful we need to be swift because that's we know birds can't get under in the way in that time I really appreciate the design of these pens having done some adaptations there are some very strong points for just doing it like this I can move in service these as quick as I can move them you know it doesn't take long and the birds are extremely safe and whether it proof you know so we've only ever lost Birds due to bad weather from someone turning the pen the wrong way around and I didn't happen to catch it and we've had birds in minus degrees three weeks old coming out unfeathered in minus degrees in the snow and they still were fine we just had to do a bit of extra work wrapping them up and they were a bit smaller than planned so there was a bit of economic dip but no problem we didn't lose them so that's pretty impressive so you can see these are made in panels right now we're always pulling from the three meter ends because if you pull from the for me to end you're putting a lot more stress on it you know it's a longer edge it's gonna Bend so you can see the basic structure if you want to build them I would take photos of this really carefully in the right places to think about how you do connections and then I would make a jig so that all the pieces can be cut the sames like making it yet you know you're doing hundreds of things repetitively so if you need to make ten of these you can do that in a few days you just need to cut all the pieces that come up right and then order it all out and make a little workflow so you can see we've made each panel separately here's the N panel n panel and then the side panels on the outside this is perfectly spaced so it locks together rather that you know it's it's a lot of thought behind the actual construction so that we can repair it easily whatever and then you've got a very strong corner because you see we're pulling against this but this is bolted to this and this is forward to that and this is part of that so it's very strong right and what's beautiful about this so you can see how the corners have these vertical struts so that gives it strength in this direction this gives it strength in this direction afterwards and then the middle it's got the support to hold this beam up and you see the beam is lowered down so it holds this beam up which supports the roof all right and then these beams are put sideways across the long length they're not going this way which gets in the way when you're trying to collect the birds out all right so it's very specifically designed to be perfect in that way not through my design through Saladin's work you know make the optimal design over decades so if you want to build these I highly highly recommend you copy this very precisely even down to the dimension of wood that's something we've improved over solitons design is they are really heavy and you can't necessarily move them unless you're strong and you know you'll get a back problem or whatever but this is a perfect weight of wood if you buy and or take the time to select wood that doesn't have knots we've just gone to buy the cheaper stuff from a cheapo store in Sweden that you know it's cheap price but you get crappy quality wood and it tends to break like you saw this morning in a couple of them where you have a big knot here and it's taking a lot of stress on the dolly and you hit a big lump and pull hard you know so just select better wood but even if it does break you can replace it which is good but look I can stand on there and that's really strong right and it's made of really flimsy stuff but I can really put some weight on that probably two or three of us could stand on it I don't think will try but I reckon we could Tim if you look at solitons work you'll see all his pens er so they face the Sun the Sun can come in the in the pen and the wind protections on the other end as I explained this morning we need to ensure our wind protection is on those sides because the wind is coming from there that's why for the windbreak there actually what I'm doing on this land is blocking the land up over time I have a windbreak to protect my tree lanes then I have a hedgerow then I have Avenue trees then I have a riparian and there's a hedgerow above the vineyard II place then there's a hedgerow at the top so I'm going to actually block the land up into very small parcels of highly protected land because it makes a big difference to the value of the land in in-between then this is just plastic roofing sheet and that's the key Magnus is plastic roofing sheet he's gone but his wife was complaining about moving them so to heavy base put metal roof sheet on and that's not not a good idea plastic roof sheet or something you could try that a friend in Australia does is that corrugated plastic you know like almost like cardboard it's got holes inside for Packaging or whatever but yes even lighter yeah it's cheap and lighter now it probably breaks down in the Sun a bit quicker than UV treated roofing but it's cheap and easy to replace so it's very light what you got to be careful of is water pooling on the roof and weighing it down and then when you move it you're tipping water on young birds and whatever but that's the same with these anyway like water pools on them but you can see the construction is the same for all the roof panels you know it's very simple very easy and then the chicken wire ideally you build it the height of the chicken wire or you buy chicken wire the height of your pen now these are 60 which is ideal they don't need to be taller and that means we can just unroll a reel of chicken wire and staple it on easy now we bought the timber for this so you might end up spending two and a half thousand crowns to build one like this 250 euros but every batch of birds coming through and there's six in the season here you can get through it's two and a half thousand euros of which two thousand dollars profit right so this one little piece of infrastructure can kick out twelve thousand euros of profit in a year so pretty good investment I would say the water is we don't have the waters here but I wanted to show you the detail of them because they're they're finicky we will need the water is when we get the birds up here now they're deep litter is a very special thing and deep litter actually reduces mortality right so once the sawdust is in the birds come in they don't really do much for a couple of days because they're not [ __ ] much and they're very small but then they start to eat exponentially wet so then they're [ __ ] everywhere so the aim is to always put more sawdust down that it doesn't smell bad in there if you're losing ammonia then that's your nutrients going up in the air the old Salatin says a nice thing like farming should be aromatically and sensibly essentially pleasing right if you're losing nutrients up in the air if you can smell a farm then they're nutrient cycle is broken we don't want nutrients flying up in you everyone to capture them use them somewhere else for the benefit of something else so that's a good standard for maintaining the bedding is like add enough that it doesn't smell and as it grow faster then you need to add more regularly whatever and so we just keep doing that as they grow and then once we take the birds out we don't clear out the bedding ever in the whole season what we do is take about one and a half watering cans per Buddha pen and water it finely with them with the rose you know water the bedding and then we take a pitchfork and just turn it we don't turn it over we just like break the surface because it's a bit compacted from the birds and the [ __ ] so we water it turn it a bit just to make sure the water gets in there and then we cap it with about an inch of sawdust and then we press it down again put the lights down to the next birds warm the water up ready for their arrival they're now doing that reduces mortality the mortality massively because you've got a biological nappy like think about chicks they live underneath ahem under her wings they [ __ ] everywhere on the natural forest floor wherever they live they're sitting I mean in their shed a bit and they living in this little environment for a few weeks and they're designed to do like this right so the biology that eats ER [ __ ] has some interaction that's maybe too complex to understand but basically is making a biological nappy that keeps those birds healthy it's probably filling their gut with bacteria and making their immune system work just like us right you need the you need to be born through the vaginal cavity passage whatever so that you get in contact with the things that kickstart your immune system though my cone iam the first [ __ ] this really important part of the immune system of a human anyone born by cesarean has their immune system compromised by default so nature knows all these things and it's worked it out and humans love to impose their you know reductionist compartmentalize ideas on it but in this way mortality goes down and Christoph was relating yesterday that his first batch he had higher mortalities and then it went down in subsequent batches because he's doing the same stuff and that makes sense but in the industry they clean it all out spray chemicals anti-life yeah we're trying to promote life microbes these little things that we wage war on they're the things that keep the system healthy weeds there are the things that repair soil and keep the system healthy thoughts emotions sensations they're the thing that tells you you were totally fine regardless of what's going on okay we wage war and all the very things that keep the system healthy it's interesting you have a kitchen worktop that you make food on and you eat from and you have a toilet bowl and you have a new york city street and you won't touch food falling on there or there and yet this is the dirtiest place by far the new york street is sterile there's nothing living the Sun there's wind there's rain now toilet bowls you put a lot of energy into cleaning your kitchen work surface is nasty you know if you spray bacteria like a you know make them stained they did their lovely series in Sweden where they gave a family a chicken to cook and stained the the juice with like UV light or whatever and by the end of the evening that you know literally everywhere ceilings floors all over the house all over the like it's everywhere and that's true of all of us like we think we're running some hygienic thing but the dirtiest places are the places we think and then we can open the sides and lifting them out in the beginning I can grab me by the feet when I have no opportunity it's fine to gladden by the feet as long as you use both feet lifting a heavy bird with one foot just picking them up from the middle we need to inspect them carefully that they actually hanging free hanging we can put this wooden stick under here to give a better system okay we we saw that it sat that seventy three or four all night and so now we need to open it up so it's going to be a bit logistic working here with the smoke coming out as well but that's the way we're doing it looks good now it hasn't finished smoking so it will keep going what we could do to stop thee well we want it to sort of cool down in the smoke but what we could do is loose a bit of water to stop the smouldering and it will still sit there in the smoke as it were so I'm gonna do that just to make it a bit easier for us that's gonna throw up a bit of ash which isn't ideal but I think it's gonna be a bit uncomfortable no to smoke it smooth excuse me enough but you get the idea now the chickens look very beautiful we like it so we've got a bit of a logistical situation obviously when we're slaughtering for real like this is not certified or to standard so we can't sell birds in this manner we are moving everything outside so we can all see because it's too many people for the job and so we need to be able to like see what's going on and we're now doing kill station down there normally we would reverse the birds up here and there's a tent up here and a bit of shade for the birds when we're doing one pen at a time just to have minimal Birds setting equate for you know we don't want to bring 300 Birds and have them sit in the old day it's just come fear to bring a pen at a time and someone's off doin chores anyway so they can bring more bit so normally we're killing here passing through after their bled into there and the whole process is inside we all white clean laundered clothes with white aprons hair nets we've all scrubbed nails and arms and alcohol and that everything is clean and if you need to go to the toilet you have to totally undress having cleaned clean again outside then clean again get back in and clean again it's a whole process so you try and avoid doing that so we're like please try and think of hygiene because these will be test Birds for big batches of smoking but we'd like to eat them so it's nice to you know don't leave bits of your finger in there if you cut your finger off or step away all right these are gonna be coming in sixes next time one of the scolding team want to keep rolling first thing bird away from you lift up the tail straight cut down on the rump line to get to the spine not cutting your fingers no finger underneath pushing up the tail there's no way I can cut my fingers then we turn the knife sideways cut sideways to get under this oil sack this knife is ridiculous that's why it's cut through it get rid of that give the knife to the person over there to do this and try not to cut into the bone you'll blunt the knife cut a little bit high up maybe now this is okay it looks different from this angle watch your fingers there should be no cutting the fingers any point okay flip the bird over on its back facing a bit towards you and we pinch up the neck skin away from the breast so there's no way we're cutting into breast meat you can see this is just flappy skin and membrane all right this is a dangerous point cuz this is one point where if you're moving really fast you slice across your finger so you be careful we're just cutting the skin that's it yep yep and then I'm putting my finger in gap between the breast meat to hold my bird this is how I keep control of my bird no one's gonna get that off me it's my bird yeah and then I'm taking my finger in the next year and pulling it down just lip it doesn't matter how hard you rip it really and then I'm getting my crop careful with knives you've got to really watch there's one more chicken knife so there you go it might be blunt but it'll do for now now we've got the crop on the breast on the left-hand side as you look down at it so I'm rolling it look see here this is a trick I'm rolling it onto my finger and then moving my thumb back to grab it again I'm securing it so I can rip down I'm not ripping so hard I break it I'm just tearing it from the membrane from the breast like you've got it off the breast meat now if you pull that you're gonna split the gut so you did the job it's separated here yeah don't pull any harder or you'll rip it apart all right so I switched it over to this hand and I hold the next skin and I just tease it off like you see how it's just connected you're not pulling that hard we're just teasing it off that I end up with a sack in my hand so that's the sack that gets full of food yep just pull that it's just a little connection there of tissue or something yeah we've got that you've pulled it out from that end that's fine and you've got your windpipe that's good so that's the next step is digging underneath the windpipe and esophagus holding the neck and just pulling it out so now we've got a windpipe and esophagus and the crop released from the birds and they're joined together by faster you see here so that's released yep then we're turning around hand on keel pinching up the skin all right and we're making a cut between our fingers in the [ __ ] but you've got to get through the skin the membrane the fat without cutting the guts so just do a little cut it's why we put pressure see I'm putting pressure and I get tension in the skin that lifts it slightly off the gut so I can go across and I've got to the fat layer and I know I can go a little bit deeper and I'm still not cutting anything here's the fatty layer see how close to get sir there yeah and it goes thicker look see is white layer and then a thick fat nurse says membrane and then fat so gently does it now you can poke your finger in there because we just wanted to be able to get two fingers in and lip not too hard but opening it to them get a hand in there yeah called pulling now look see here there's a gizzard and there's the fat you can see on the outside look is it here I see a liver up behind it but I want this fat if I can get it right there's the fact and it gives it under it's a join to the bird so I'm trying to separate the gizzard from the fat and keep all this fat look at all that fat that's probably 40 cents worth of fat like this makes incredibly good cooking and worth or whatever so I've separated my gizzard from that and kept all the fat in the bird that's what I want and now I can see gizzard liver bits yeah okay don't pull look is it out you don't need to I was just pulling it to show you and just sliding my finger over in half a second we get your hand in to the right just pick up what you can scoop it scoop it pull it out and get it off the table it doesn't matter if you break the esophagus or whatever we're just getting none of the guts out we checked the heart the hearts good livers good is good I'm just going to cut this one out because they're not keeping anything I cut down very close to the sides of the bum and cut under it this is left a bit of the beside Allah bum because it's the wrong size knife but Evelyn that's good but look at all that fat on the pubic bone that is normally all cut away right that's possibly 80 cents of fat so everything's gone and the inside except the lungs and you get the lungs in whatever way you can reach you scooping the lungs out against the ribs you see the lungs the pinky bits so you've got a scoop I use two or three fingers and scoop and try not to break them because otherwise they're really hard to get out so take them out in one piece and you can see the lungs or the ribs yep this lungs so you pull them out and says own testicles pull them out you'll have got to them already so now inside you see the lungs of gone everything's gone that's perfect are you looking to end up like nothing inside no lungs now and there's no wind pipe sticking out on top and then at that point I can just hold the bird up by its neck cut it off level with the shoulder that birds done goes to the clean just weighing the birth before they go in which we don't normally do 2.13 just so that people get a sense of how big the birds were they were handling and what the value of these birds would be so not quite doing it the protocol but we'll have a good clean now just to have a bit of record-keeping for the process because what we're doing a big slaughters worse 1.85 these are not birds that will sell their birds that are passed for hygiene they're all a birds and we're going to smoke them as a test batch to smoking whole big batch at 40 Birds 2.56 if I was doing slowly on my own I would buy different gear and set it up differently but I bet I would be able to do it cruelly Swift I was just saying there's a woman in Sweden not too far north who does five thousand birds minimum on her own and she must have it down you know now Nicholas went there to see it but not in action just saw the space it was pretty simple but I can see how long it would take I think I would go for 18 kill cones so I reckon it would take me 10 minutes max to bleed stun and bleeds 18 birds right and then I would buy a Ashley scolder from the states and automatics Golders a bit more expensive our scold as we are using it like 200 euros and it's just a hot water tank that's all it is with the thermostat but a proper scold is expensive it heats up fast it holds temperature fast obviously if you're putting lots of birds in quickly it takes some heat out but this one is you can put six birds in and it's turning them around because you're lifting birds out and putting them in again to get the water into the feathers this one will do for the time you want the temperature you want and then stop with them out of the water so you don't have to be there to like grab them at a certain time and then you I would set up like stainless steel shoots and I would just be pushing those birds into a plucker that spits them out automatically at the other end when they're done so like Ashley in the states they make you know bigger commercial pluckers then I would have one of iteration table I probably wouldn't save livers hearts things and that just because it adds five seconds of birth which if you're doing on your own I can't be bothered so I would just probably do it like that they now have a rail system for moving it and I would probably do this in one big line and my goal is I have to get birds from body temperature down to ultimately they have to get to four degrees C internal in eight hours that gives me time to stock a load of birds up here and only put them in the chiller every now and again because our chiller we just put 700 kilos of chicken in it and got it down to temperature in less than 4 hours so it's a powerful chiller you're spending like seven with some thousand euros on a chiller like that so this is a blast chiller designed for chilling meat down it's not just a cool room it's a chiller for meat because you're taking something at 37 degrees that's got a lot of density and you've got to get it down quick organs have to be chilled much quicker you have to get to 3 degrees in four hours but you put them in ice water in the chiller and we pass them through every 50 beds but on my own I can definitely keep that rate up all day no problem this one is happening automatically I'm gonna take these birds six at a time put them in here right it's gonna take me let's just call it one minute to put six birds into it it's not taking ten seconds even I'm just going Blair pressing the button so we'll call it in a minute then I'm taking feet off here cuz I don't want them in the plucker alright so once the bird so as soon as I put the birds in there they're taking about a minute 15 I can do two chickens in that time maybe three right so I'll go back to doing that this is all technically dirty side and this is technically clean side now we have two rooms dirty and clean there's the same bacteria in both the woman that does all these on her own she just hasn't imagined me line that she puts a different pair of boots on naturally in the clean site and that meets regulations so I would do something like that because it's obviously more you know I would want this in a room all in one line that's very simple for one person so now I've obviously got deal with collecting birds which I would do four o'clock in the morning on my own I'd bring all the birds so I'd buy more crates I wouldn't go up in multiple times I would get all the birds in one go so they would have to sit longer in crates but that's fine I mean day-old chicks sitting crates for 12 hours being delivered all over and so the birds go in the slaughterhouses it's like they can deal with it it's not ideal but they can deal with it so I would just do that before I start and so six birds let's call it a minute there and to take the feet off six birds let's call it a minute there and then this is going to take less than one minute here all right then it spit some out on their own I can do birds 25 seconds 30 seconds continuously for sure so every six Birds is taking me three minutes and I'm doing in the time this is going on I'm doing two birds let's say so this is taking me two minutes yeah it's at fair and then I'm hanging those six birds up on a hook on this thing and that hook can go straight into the chiller so I can hang them on this rail system in the chiller so I'm just setting it up so I do minimal moves I can just push thirty six birds along this rail just by pushing the back one yeah so to me to hang them up let's say for every six birds it takes another minute let's say two minutes just in case I drop a hook or whatever and then every 30 Birds it takes two minutes so we'll just leave that out of the equation because it's I mean you know and I mean with the rail system so I'm putting 36 Birds at a time on hooks and then I'm just going to push 36 Birds into the chiller close the door so it's not taking any time at all so hope that gave you a flavors the enjoyable weekend we've had here the crew did a great job got some beautiful birds and we can't sell these so we're using needs to do a test smoking and we'll be putting a - lots of 40 birds into the smoker to see how it goes with a big batch because we've tested it very successfully with small batches and have a beautiful smoked chicken dinner yesterday and yeah we'll see how that goes I'll update you with that as we go we've got a busy week now before we're off to Stockholm to do our one-day event we Curtis Stone the urban farmer and then back to the farm with Curtis and his wife Katie in their child violet to do our intensive four day training at the farm in two weekends from now so it's gonna be awesome we're looking forward to a very busy course and lots of inspiration people from all over the world coming for that so thanks so much for watching as always really appreciate your likes your views your shares and I'm really excited to just be pushing out information at the moment and just getting more and more people inspired and informed to go out and start their own regenerative enterprises or refine their generative enterprises over time and it's yeah I just keep seeing now around Europe more and 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Channel: Richard Perkins

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Keywords: ridgedale, ridgedalepermaculture, pasturedpoultry

Id: yA2S-_EoE40

Length: 64min 55sec (3895 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 10 2018