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.

PPT042: Definitive Guide to Feather Pecking with Jeff Mattocks

Think all chicken feather picking and “cannibalism” is attributed to poor feed? Think again. Poultry nutritionist Jeff Mattocks of The Fertrell Company walks us through four main reasons that...

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PPT041: Jeff Mattocks Provides a Primer on On-Farm Feed Mixing for Freshness, Health, and Profitibility

I’m joined by Jeff Mattocks and several APPPA Producer Plus members for a Q&A session on mixing feed on-farm as an alternative to purchasing feed from a mill. It’s...

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PPT040: Mike Marchand Shares His Business Perspective on Growing His Pastured Poultry Farm From Scratch

[app_audio src=””] Talk about this episode on Facebook. Mike Marchand of Whitehurst Farms joins the show to talk about his rapidly growing career as a pastured poultry farmer in...

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PPT040: Mike Marchand Shares His Business Perspective on Growing His Pastured Poultry Farm From Scratch

Talk about this episode on Facebook. Mike Marchand of Whitehurst Farms joins the show to talk about his rapidly growing career as a pastured poultry farmer in the Houston,...

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PPT039: Bootstrapping a Pastured Poultry Business

Spence dawns his meat cape of awesomeness for another episode. This time I talk to him about bootstrapping. Some highlights: What are some of the challenges in Bootstrapping a...

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PPT038: Year Round Turkey Production

It’s never too early or late to think about turkeys. In this episode, Mike starts off talking to Spence about current farm events, which steers the conversation to turkey...

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