Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast

The Pastured Poultry Talk podcast, hosted by Mike Badger, explores the production, the business, the community, and the entrepreneurs that make direct marketed pasture-raised poultry possible.

PPT038: Year Round Turkey Production

April 1, 2016 Mike Badger All Podcasts, Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast 0 Comments

[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4269875/height/100/width/480/theme/standard-mini/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/” height=”100″ width=”480″] It’s never too early or late to think about turkeys. In this episode, Mike starts off talking to Spence about current farm events, which steers the conversation to turkey breeding. Mike has been setting up his Beltsvile Small White breeding program. And no discussion about turkeys is complete without a chat about…

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PPT037: Pastured Poultry is Beyond Dirt

March 21, 2016 Mike Badger All Podcasts, Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast 0 Comments

[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4234726/height/100/width/480/theme/standard-mini/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/” height=”100″ width=”480″] As a continuation of episode 35, Spence is back for a guest host spot to talk about pasture management.  We talk about managing broilers and layers on pasture. Spence is in the midst of transitioning his layers from an egg mobile to a daily move prairie schooner for precision manure management…

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PPT036 Frozen Chicken Completely Changed Healthy Hen Farms Business – A Profile of John McAuley

March 11, 2016 Mike Badger All Podcasts, Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast 0 Comments

[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4213371/height/100/width/480/theme/standard-mini/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/” height=”100″ width=”480″] North Carolina producer John McAuley (Healthy Hen Farms) joins the show to talk about his pastured broiler operation, marketing frozen chicken, and some lessons learned in the brooder.  John focuses on pasture-raised broilers and turkeys and expects to raise approximately 8,000 birds in 2016. John started his pastured poultry career in the…

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