Show Notes
Jeff Mattocks deserves an award for services to the poultry community, worldwide. He's so much more than a poultry nutritionist. In this conversation, he describes the brooder trick the world’s best poultry keepers use to raise healthy chicks, explains why he can’t recommend any store-bought chook feed and shares his go-to response at the first sign of illness in a flock.
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