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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

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 mid 1990’s as Polyface’s…

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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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