If you’ve ever tried to move a flock of poultry, you’ve probably noticed that chickens don’t respond as well to herding as ducks or turkeys. While chickens do move with and identify with their flock, they just don’t stick together in a tight unit. It seems that chickens have the individualism dial turned up just […]
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I made this explainer video to show how we move all of our chickens on pasture. Movement is always key for pasture raised chickens, so we include that as a primary consideration in all our chicken shelters.
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I never expected finding a reliable, effective feeder for our pasture raised chickens would be such a challenge. Over the past twelve years I have built countless feeders. And I’ve tried at least ten different commercial feeders trying to find something that really worked. Along the way I came up with a pretty good homemade
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We dig into the details of what grass fed cattle eat. The name “grass fed” probably wasn’t ever the best choice, but finding a better name that isn’t too long is challenging. Let’s look at all the abundance of plants our grass fed cattle eat on our pastures.
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On the steep bank just behind our house we had an old smokehouse. The roof must have been leaking a long time ago, because even though it was re-roofed with tin about 20 years ago, the rafters and floor were full of rot. This year we noticed that as the wood foundation beams decomposed, the
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Welcome to Wrong Direction Farm. I’m Dave your farmer, and I’d like to tell you about our farm and why this is such a special place.
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So everyone knows that cows eat grass. We all learned that in our preschool coloring books or nursery rhymes. And for most of us, that’s probably about as far as we’ve thought about it. But do you know how cows eat grass? I mean, how it actually goes from a leafy stalk in the pasture
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Transcript: You’re wondering, “If I order from Wrong Direction Farm what will the box look like when it arrives? What condition will everything be in?”Those are good questions and I’d like to talk about them with you today.I’m Dave, a farmer here at Wrong Direction Farm. And to help answer those questions I decided while I was
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No, don’t worry. This isn’t a story about COVID and Ivermectin. This is about Ivermectin, livestock manure, and a curious consequence of the drug’s widespread use.
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Spend a minute with our pasture raised chickens. I filmed them grazing in our pastures a couple of evenings ago. No words, just chickens. I enjoy listening to their incessant chirps and chortles.
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