Nate Pontius

So if you just take sheep or cows and put them on a pasture and leave them on a pasture and have them eat the same grass over and over again, they will get sick and die because there's a certain parasite that they will continually eat that will eat them from the inside and kill them.

Put some equine in there.

The equine eat that parasite, neutralize it completely.

And then the cattle eat the parasite that will kill equine.

And they both benefit each other, if that makes sense.

And then like my chickens, they're like the big sanitation crew.

All of that manure that's left behind on the pasture, oh, they go crazy for it because flies get up in there.

They lay their eggs and maggots and everything that chickens go through there.

They scratch it.

They peck it.

They work it into the soil and they eat everything out of it.

And then I don't have a fly problem with my sheep or cattle because my chickens are eating all of that and eating good.

Well, where I'm at now, I never would have thought that I got there from the start.

It's one little thing at a time.

I mean, it's kind of like when you started lifting weights, you probably started doing some bicep curls.

You never thought like, I'm going to become this icon of a hybrid athlete.

You were just lifting weights.

I never thought that I would wind up

With this very complex ecosystem on my farm, I just like put some cows out in my pasture, bought a Stetson hat and changed my Instagram bio to rancher.

And then had a lot of trial and error over the years and kind of evolved into this.