Poultry Growers

Getting Started

Consumer demand is on the rise for pastured poultry, offering a new source of income for small-scale producers in the Northwest. When adding any new enterprise to a farm operation, planning is the key to success. The Northwest Direct project partners have developed these pages to assist producers in designing a successful pastured poultry enterprise.

This website includes farm profiles of three poultry producers in the region, including specifics on income and expenses. It also includes simple web-based tools you can use to calculate how profitable your poultry enterprise might be, given your unique circumstances. Also be sure to visit WSU’s Avian Influenza resource page to learn how you can monitor for and prevent an outbreak of the H5N1 virus.

These pages have been developed as part of Northwest Direct – Improving Markets for Small Farms, a project involving partners from Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Visit the main page of Northwest Direct to learn more. Project partners helped to break down barriers to on-farm processing of poultry by providing research-based information and by facilitating dialogue between regulators and producers. A dozen whole-farm case studies were also developed through this project. Several feature farmers who are direct-marketing poultry and eggs as part of a diversified, integrated small farm strategy.