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.
How to avoid being a dangerous chicken breeder
Dangerous breeders are everywhere and the internet gives them a platform to perpetuate bad breeding habits at the expense of offspring that represents the breed. A dangerous breeder is...
PPT092: Understanding the difference in as-fed and dry matter nutrition in poultry feeds
https://pasturedpoultrytalk.com/2016/06/14/ppt044-understanding-the-nutritional-benefits-of-black-soldier-fly-as-poultry-feed/Confused about the difference between feed values expressed in as-fed or dry matter percentages? The difference between as-fed nutrition and dry-matter nutrition in poultry feeds is water. The dried...
Farming mealworms for chicken feed with Cheryl Powers: PPT091
Crickets are a popular insect protein for humans, and black soldier fly larvae receive most of the attention among chicken keepers; Cheryl Powers, Jord Producers, plans to change that by...
PPT090: Is it time for pastured poultry to slaughter some sacred cows?
In the week or so preceding this episode, Polyface announced it was slaughtering one of its sacred cows. They were going to ship product. Social media was a angry...
Doing the pasture-raised broiler side hustle in rural Kansas with Garoleen Wilson
Correction: In the podcast episode, I state Garoleen is producing 7,000 broilers. That was an error in my interpretation of her numbers. She’s actually on track to produce 3,500...
Doing the pasture-raised broiler side hustle in rural Kansas with Garoleen Wilson
Correction: In the podcast episode, I state Garoleen is producing 7,000 broilers. That was an error in my interpretation of her numbers. She’s actually on track to produce 3,500...
My Pastured Poultry Path – Celebrating 100 Episodes
My journey to 100 episodes of Pastured Poultry Talk started long, long ago. Celebrate the podcast milestone with me, as I recount the significant events in my life that led me to pastured poultry and and back to faith. I tried very hard to make decisions that would have denied me entry into pastured poultry....