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PPT0015: Dr. Susan Beal Talks Raw Pet Food Diets

Find out what you can do with those extra parts.Dr. Beal sees the leftover parts as a opportunity for pastured poultry producers. In her small animal practice, over 80 percent of her clients fed some sort of fresh and raw diets. Grady and Susan cover the following topics: Rundown of raw diets for cats and dogs….

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PPT0014 Coaching Time with Jim Adkins

In part 2 of Mike’s interview with Jim Adkins of the Sustainable Poultry Network, we talk about: The need to always selectively breed A spiral mating system using two groups of breeders Linebreeding is the best way to produce good poultry, but there are some things to avoid Farming with modern commercial (hybrid) birds alongside…

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PPT013: Not A BackYard Chicken Club: Jim Adkins Interview Part 1

Mike interviews Jim Adkins of the Sustainable Poultry Network (SPN). According to Jim, SPN is not a backyard chicken club; it’s aggressive at getting the old heritage and standard bred poultry back into the martketplace. We talk about: Everything revolves around training, coaching, and mentoring “Don’t get hung up on the word heritage” Standard bred is…

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