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A no-till drill is a tool that helps farmers plant cover crops directly into existing pasture with minimal soil disturbance 🌱 If you are thinking about using a no-till drill on your farm, this fu..

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A no-till drill is a tool that helps farmers plant cover crops directly into existing pasture with minimal soil disturbance 🌱 If you are thinking about using a no-till drill on your farm, this ful..

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What if your pasture could carry more of the load before hay season takes over? 🌱 That’s the idea behind using a no-till drill: filling forage gaps, improving pasture diversity, and helping exten..

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Want to push back hay feeding and get more out of your pasture? In this video, we break down the no-till drill — a powerful tool for pasture renovation, forage seeding, and extending your grazing s...

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A good brooder setup needs reliable water, even when you’re not working right next to a perfect water hookup 💧🐥 That’s why this gravity-fed system is so useful. The water sits in barrels, flows dow.

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At Pastured Life Farm, David makes a great point about chicken processing: the plucker may get all the attention, but the scalder is what makes the whole process work. Getting the right heat at a ...

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Pasture recovery is always one of the best things to see 🌱 Just a few months after the turkeys moved through, the regrowth is already coming back strong at Pastured Life Farm. With rest, good manag..

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Instead of bringing crates into the shelter and making the space crowded, they keep the crates right outside the door and move birds in a steady flow. It keeps the process more organized, easier on...

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A few weeks ago, we visited Pastured Life Farm, and Ginger walked us through how they raise their turkeys from the very beginning 🦃 Here is the process they follow: 1️⃣ Day old turkeys arrive 2️..

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Before they leave the brooder, we make sure their outdoor setup is ready with the three basics they need most: ✅ Shelter ✅ Clean water ✅ Easy access to feed A good pasture setup helps chicks adju...

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On pasture, shelter needs to do more than provide shade. It also has to help keep chickens in and predators out. In this setup, we use a mix of woven wire and chicken wire to create a stronger barr...

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For David and Ginger Shields, it all started with chickens. But today, Pastured Life Farm has grown into something much bigger 🐓🌱 What began as a simple homesteading idea slowly turned into a mult.

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David and Ginger Shields did not set out to build Pastured Life Farm. At first, they were just a family realizing how disconnected they felt from their food, and that one small moment sent them loo...

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Pros of raising nest boxes higher in the coop 🐓 ✅ Helps prevent hens from crowding inside ✅ Reduces broody hens guarding the boxes ✅ Keeps egg laying areas calmer ✅ Lowers the risk of hens piling o..

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At Pastured Life Farm, even the turkey flocks have a plan 🦃 Ginger walks us through why they keep certain hens after Thanksgiving season for products like ground turkey and sausage. They’re easier ..

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In our video “Raising 20,000 Chickens on Pasture in 2026” we show our full updated process, from chick arrival to moving them out onto pasture, along with many of the systems and routines we use ev...

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This time we visited Pastured Life Farm to see how a real multi-species regenerative farm operates day to day. In this video you will find a really honest look at what it meant for David and Ginger...

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In the past 5 years, our operation has grown by 150%, going from 1,600 to up to 4,000 chicks per flock 🐥 We used to do things like adding sugar water or dipping beaks, but as the number of chicks i..

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Take a tour of Pastured Life Farm, owned by David and Ginger Shields and see how they run a thriving multi species farm, focused on livestock management, regenerative agriculture, and sustainable l...

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We are checking on them every couple of hours, even through the night, just watching how they move, eat, drink, and settle in. You want to see them active, exploring, and calm. If they are all layi...

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