Pastured Poultry

Rearing pastured poultry can be a great regenerative enterprise. Making it work can be a challenge!

Join in this interactive workshop to hear more about the key practices and principles of rearing pastured poultry, and share your building designs, tips on diet and examples of processing and routes to market.

We shall explore, with leading sustainability and animal welfare consultant Anna Heaton, the challenge of selecting, feeding and housing pastured poultry for meat and eggs in a high welfare and regenerative context.

We will hear from a range of farmers (big and small) who are making it work – lets learn from their mistakes.

Peer to peer workshop sessions will allow participants to share problems and solutions. Bring photos and plans of your mobile sheds, chicken tractors and turkey gobbledygos!

By the end of the day, you leave with a plan for your next steps and a community of fellow pastured poultry keepers to bounce off.

We will of course feed you well throughout the day with a menu featuring locally reared pastured chicken and eggs, and fresh produce from our kitchen garden.

The Day

12.00: Arrive for a warming light lunch

12.45: Welcome and introductions

13.15: Raising Pastured Chickens for Meat and Eggs – The Challenge (Anna Heaton)

14.00: Case Studies

15.00: Tea and Cake

15.15: Workshop – peer to peer discussions, idea sharing and problem solving

16.30: Feedback and final Q&As

17.00: Close

Speakers

Anna Heaton

Following the completion of her BSc (Hons) Agriculture at Seale Hayne, Anna spent nine years as a farm manager, primarily working on large-scale free-range pig units. Following that she spent four years working in an advisory role with the Soil Association, managing the technical advisory team for the Food and Farming department. She has experience in working around the world where she has been involved in the development and ongoing management of animal welfare programmes for food retailers, fashion brands and charitable organisations. In 2021 she was awarded Honorary Life

Membership of the Pasture Fed Livestock Association for her leading contribution to the development of the Pasture for Life Standards. She works with South-West Farm Consultants and other clients.

Plus two fantastic pastured poultry farmers leading the way:

Claire Hill (FAI Farms)

Chris Rumming (Lydiard Turkeys)

Tickets

Supporter = £70

Standard = £50

Supported = £30

GREAT Farmers = £20

We are pleased to offer a 10% discount off the standard ticket price to members of the Pasture Fed Livestock Association (PFLA) and the North East Cotswolds Farmer Cluster Group (NECFCG).

Please use code Poultry10 when booking.

If you are a farmer or grower in Gloucestershire you can select the GREAT Farmer subsidised ticket. Learn more about The GREAT Project here www.greatglos.co.uk

Please state your dietary requirements when booking.