I enjoyed this because it’s really a post about grass, told through chickens. The writer starts with the honest economics. Eggs and broilers are becoming a bigger part of the farm’s income, and in sheer numbers they’re now “a chicken farm”. But the deeper point is stewardship.

Pastured poultry is part of a whole system, not a branding exercise.

And the bit I love most: Chickens as nutrient cyclers in a grassland ecosystem. Manure, scratching, spreading, even calcium moving through the system.

It’s a reminder that mixed farming done well is less a set of enterprises and more a choreography between plants, animals, soil, and the people paying attention.