Topics of Interest on the Show

The Business of Pastured Poultry

Whether you raise poultry for the homestead, as a side hustle, or as an enterprise, you need advice that accounts for the bottom line.

Expert Interviews and Insights

Pastured Poultry Talk brings you the community members who want to share their knowledge with you.

Training and How-tos

Apply the secrets of the professional producers for a healthy, productive, and profitable flock.

Industry Analysis and News

This isn't 2010 anymore. The pastured poultry community is innovating and moving. Cut through the noise and get the scoop.

All Poultry Species / Heritage and Hybrid

No breed snobs here.

PPT037: Pastured Poultry is Beyond Dirt

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...

Read More

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

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...

Read More

PPT035: What Are the Weaknesses of Pastured Poultry?

Terrell Spencer joins Mike as a guest host. Fresh off an APPPA related trip to the Mother Earth News Fair in Belton, Texas, the two share their impressions about...

Read More

PPT034: Author Rebecca Thistlethwaite Discusses Producing and Marketing Ethical Meats

Rebbeca Thistlethwaite and her co-author and husband Jim Dunlop wrote the book The New Livestock Farmer: The Business of Raising and Selling Ethical Meats and the author of Farms of the...

Read More

PPT033: UC Davis Builds an Egg Mobile and Joins the Pastured Poultry Community

Members of the UC Davis pastured poultry research farm join the podcast to tell us about their project. Mike is joined by Dr. Richard Blatchford and Carine Elkhoraibi. The project...

Read More

PPT032: Show Updates and Upcoming Poultry Events

In this episode, we provide you with some show updates and explain our infrequency and most importantly, tell you how we’re moving forward. Mike has upgraded his podcast studio–what...

Read More