Jeff Mattocks

Cracking the performance problems of soy-free poultry feeds with Fertrell

Episode 72 takes on the soy-free poultry feed for your chickens, ducks, and turkeys. Up to this point, if you’ve fed soy-free feeds to your chickens, then you’ve likely experienced slower growth, more expensive feed, and improperly feathered birds, just to name a few problems. Jeff Mattocks from The Fertrell Company joins the show to…

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PPT044: Understanding the Nutritional Benefits of Black Soldier Fly As Poultry Feed

A quick hitting technical episode on the nutritional qualities of using black soldier fly larvae as poultry feed. In this show, we talk about the differences between dry matter and as-fed nutritional values. With respect to poultry, we cover the soldier fly values of protein, lysine, ash, phosphorus, and calcium. Resources Ask APPPA Q&A on the third Tuesday…

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PPT043: The Richard Simmons Approach to Molting Hens with Jeff Mattocks

We continue the mini-series with poultry nutritionist Jeff Mattocks of The Fertrell Company. This will be part 2 of our 3 part technical road series that we recorded on our way to Arkansas. That explains the road hum that I couldn’t get out, but everything is clear. In this episode, we talk about molting; The…

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