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Host of Pastured Poultry Talk podcast.

PPT035: What Are the Weaknesses of Pastured Poultry?

March 4, 2016 Mike Badger All Podcasts, Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast 0 Comments

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 the show. Highlights of the episode: Is Texas poised as the next pastured poultry hot spot? There are several processing options accessible to the DFW and…

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PPT034: Author Rebecca Thistlethwaite Discusses Producing and Marketing Ethical Meats

February 8, 2016 Mike Badger All Podcasts, Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast 0 Comments

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 Future. Between them, they have a diverse livestock, orchard, and vegetable farming history. Their pastured poultry production includes layers (flocks as large as 5,000), broilers (up…

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

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

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 describes itself as “a new education, research and innovation hub for pastured poultry producers (layers and broilers), master gardeners, backyard flock keepers, academia, students, food buyers, food…

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