[permaculture] critique of pastured poultry

Lawrence F. London, Jr. lflj at intrex.net
Sat Aug 18 02:02:25 EDT 2007


Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> Toby Hemenway wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've always admired Joel Salatin's work with pastured poultry. But 
>>here's a blog post from an organic chicken farmer who tried it and 
>>thinks it's got some major flaws. I found it thought-provoking
>>
>>http://bbill.blogspot.com/2006/07/pastured-poultry-scam.html
>>
> 
> The article is flawed in that he takes issue with "pastured poultry"
> in general when he is really talking about improper or overuse of chicken
> tractor confinement methods. Still Bill makes many good points worth considering.

I just read Laura' comments on his blog and Bill's followup,
wwhich I thought was inadequate and offtopic. He did not address the concept of pastured poultry in any depth at all. 
Don't think he really knows much at all about farming.
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