Pastured Poultry Talk: Recent Episodes
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I have a conversation with Chrislyn Wood, DVM, about the threat of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) and pasture raised flocks. Dr. Wood is a veterinarian with USDA APHIS and she is involved first hand with HPAI monitoring and response efforts. She recalls in our conversation being on the ground in the Pacific Northwest as...
I’m still here. Plus, I’d like to invite you to attend APPPA’s Professional Pastured Poultry Conference (https://apppa.org/Conference) from January 16-18, 2022.
At this year’s conference, I am teaming up with John Suscovich and Luke Groce to host a meetup for the listeners of our shows. As a listener to Pastured Poultry Talk, you’re invited to meetup, chat, and just connect. Stay tuned for day and time information.
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I’m still here. Plus, I’d like to invite you to attend APPPA’s Professional Pastured Poultry Conference (https://apppa.org/Conference) from January 16-18, 2022.
At this year’s conference, I am teaming up with John Suscovich and Luke Groce to host a meetup for the listeners of our shows. As a listener to Pastured Poultry Talk, you’re invited to meetup, chat, and just connect. Stay tuned for day and time information.
Greg Gunthorp raises turkeys on pigs on pasture at Gunthorp Farms in LaGrange, Indiana. He used to raise “a lot” of pastured chickens. Then Covid hit and business changed. The only poultry production to survive 2020 is pastured turkeys. Greg has been a part of the pastured poultry game from the beginning, and he is...
Cynthia Capers, Heniscity Farm in Tennessee, shares her 20+ year journey from hobby chicken keeper to poultry farmer. Twenty years ago, the sight of six Black Australorps brought tears to her eyes. Today, she’s serving her community through egg sales, chick sales, pullet sales, and community education. She’s incorporated poultry into their rural bed and...
I answer a listener question, “How can I make my small laying hen flock more profitable?” With feedback from the community, insights from The Fighting Farmer, and personal experience, we dive deep into ways to prosper from your small flock of laying hens. I’ll tackle the answer in three sections: management, pricing, and markets/marketing. Management...
Perdue has acquired Pasturebird and is now the largest pastured poultry producer in the U.S. The news was soft launched on the Corporate Perdue website and was there for everyone to discover. However, there’s not been formal Perdue announcements in their PR channels even when faced with the reality that the news was public. It’s...
Listener Chris asks how to utilize an all-in/all-out pullet replacement strategy without duplicating infrastructure while maintaining egg production. To help answer the question, I share insights from Mark Harrison and Dave and Ginger Shields. Mark farms at White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia. Dave and Ginger operate Pastured Life Farm in O’Brien, Florida. The simple...
In Pastured Poultry Talk episode 110, farmer Matt Steinman discussed how he used fermented feed as a solution to waste and fines. While fermentation can be a viable solution for some people, it’s not the only way to deal with fines. The problem with fines accumulating in your feeders instead of the birds is that...
I close out the pastured poultry training series with a live streamed Q&A between Terrell Spencer from The Fighting Farmer and myself. We went live on Facebook and fielded questions from our listeners, and this episode of the podcast includes an edited version of that conversation. If you want to watch a replay of the...
The pastured poultry community lacks species appropriate feed in most places. Turkeys highlight this short coming because they require a much higher protein level than chickens, but it can be near impossible to find a reliable source of turkey starter feed unless you’re raising enough numbers to justify a custom feed order. This video shows...