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Setting-up a small-scale pastured poultry enterprise

Sheila Cooke • Feb 21, 2022

On the 10th of March, in a Landworkers' Alliance webinar, three women will present on the topic of managing pastured poultry holistically.

Hear from three women on the West coast of Scotland who are running agroecological enterprises producing eggs and pastured chickens. Gilly Dixon-Spain from The Sailean Project on the Isle of Lismore, Jenny Macdonald from Woodside Arran Farm on the Isle of Arran, and Jill Russell from Ramstane Farm in East Ayrshire.


Topics for discussion will include:

  • Regenerative or Holistic grazing with poultry
  • Designing mobile hen coops
  • The challenges of poultry regulations and how to work with them!
  • Setting up on-farm slaughtery
  • Scaling up your egg enterprise
  • How to approach direct sales, wholesale, and public procurement


For more info on pasturing poultry, have a look at this blog that Gilly wrote about how they do it at The Sailean Project.

This interactive online workshop will offer space for questions and group discussion, so participants have a chance to share knowledge and build their networks. It is open to farmers, crofters and new entrants living in Scotland, working the land at any scale.

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Roger & Gilly Dixon-Spain, true ambassadors, are once again hosting Holistic Management Training.

We will soon be taking registrations for Holistic Management training at The Sailean Project off the West Coast of Scotland, on the Isle of Lismore.


Dates will be the 4th through the 12th of October 2022.


Contact us for more information, and to indicate your interest.

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