broilers

PPT037: Pastured Poultry is Beyond Dirt

March 21, 2016 Mike Badger All Podcasts, Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast 0 Comments

As a continuation of episode 35, Spence is back for a guest host spot to talk about pasture management.  We talk about managing broilers and layers on pasture. Spence is in the midst of transitioning his layers from an egg mobile to a daily move prairie schooner for precision manure management and predator protection. We go…

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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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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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