Pastured Poultry

In this interactive workshop, we’ll explore the challenge of selecting, feeding and housing pastured poultry for meat and eggs in a high welfare and regenerative context.

Hear more about the key practices and principles of rearing pastured poultry and learn about building designs, feed, processing and routes to market.

We’ll also hear from farmers from around the country who are rearing broilers, layers and turkeys on pasture. Let's see how they're making it work and learn from their mistakes. Moving outside, you’ll also get to see the newly built egg mobile at FarmED and learn about our egg-row forestry system.

During the course you’ll get hands on experience of FarmED’s laying hens, which live in and around a bespoke egg mobile. 

Speakers

Kate Henderson, who will share the details behind the new FarmED egg-row forestry system. You'll also get hands on experience of FarmED’s laying hens, which live in and around a bespoke egg mobile. 

Amy Chapple from Redwoods Farm in Devon has laying hens that roost in converted livestock trailers and her parents have broilers that live in 'chicken tractors' or polytunnels. They all get moved around the farm, following the cattle and sheep, scratching up the dung and keeping their active minds busy. Their chickens are fed on a soya-free diet with most of the feed being grown less than 10 miles from the farm. 

George Ford, farmer at Nempnett Pastures in North Somerset, produces seasonal pasture-raised broilers, Christmas turkeys and grass-fed beef, all of which are sold directly from the farm. George will share good and bad experiences along with lessons learned over the past few years setting up a new diversification enterprise and establishing a brand. 

You’ll leave this course having learned about:

• Housing design options
• How to rotate the poultry around the farm
• What to feed and can it be soya free
• Regulations, processing and marketing the produce

To get you in the mood for an afternoon of discussions on pastured poultry, the workshop will start with a chance to taste the results by enjoying a lunch of local pastured chicken accompanied by seasonal veg from the Kitchen Garden at FarmED.

Tiered Pricing

Delivery of our mission is a collective effort and our values embrace inclusivity and diversity. We don’t want price to be a barrier to anyone visiting FarmED or attending our events. Read more about our tiered pricing policy here.

North East Cotswolds Farmer Cluster & Cherwell Farmers Group

We can offer discounted tickets to NECFC and Cherwell Farmers Group members, please email kate@farm-ed.co.uk for a discount code.

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Cancellation Policy

We understand that there may be times when you need to cancel your booking.  Our cancellation policy is outlined here.