Poultry Nerds: Backyard Chickens, Quail & Hatching Eggs
Want healthier birds, better hatches, and fewer costly mistakes? Poultry Nerds gives backyard flock keepers and breeders practical, science-informed answers about chickens, Coturnix quail, hatching eggs, incubation, breeding, nutrition, brooding, biosecurity, housing, and flock health.
Jennifer Bryant of Bryant’s Roost and Carey Blackmon of Show Pro Farm Supply bring real-world poultry experience to honest conversations with breeders, researchers, poultry professionals, and other people who truly know birds. We explain not only what to do, but why it works, so you can make better decisions for your own flock.
Whether you are setting your first incubator, raising breeding stock, shipping hatching eggs, or managing an established farm, every episode gives you useful information you can put to work.
Learn more: https://www.poultrynerdspodcast.com
Build your incubation skills: https://www.incubationmasterclass.com
Coturnix quail education: https://www.quailmania.com
Find hatching-egg breeders: https://www.hatchingeggdirectory.com
Hatching-egg and live-bird shipping supplies: https://www.eggfoam.com
Valley Hatchery is a proud partner of the Poultry Nerds Podcast, providing hard-working birds for hard-working people: https://www.valleyhatchery.com
Poultry Nerds: Backyard Chickens, Quail & Hatching Eggs
Latest Episodes
Duck Care Myths: Water, Niacin & Health with Dr. Teresa Morishita
Do ducks need a pond? Can ducklings swim? Does every duck need extra niacin—and what health risks should backyard keepers actually watch for?Jennifer Bryant welcomes poultry veterinarian Dr. Teresa Morishita back to Poultry Nerds for a ...
How Thin Shells Affect Incubation: Calcium, Phosphorus & Vitamin D for Hens
The chick pulls much of its calcium out of the eggshell, so what the hen ate before she laid the egg matters long before it hatches.Thin shells, soft shells, or chicks that don't make it: it is not always the incubator and it is not alw...
Heat Plates Don't Heat the Brooder: Brooder Setup Mistakes That Kill Chicks
Heat plates don't heat the brooder. They heat the chick, and only if it can touch the plate. If you're losing chicks, that's one of several brooder mistakes we see all the time.Carey is building a new brooder, so we're getting...
Why Predators Keep Showing Up at Your Chicken Coop | David Mizejewski
Why do raccoons, snakes, hawks, and other wildlife keep appearing around a chicken coop? Sometimes the chickens are not what attracted them first.National Wildlife Federation naturalist David Mizejewski joins Jennifer and Carey to expla...
Chicken Coop Design: Ventilation & Deep Litter with Matt DuBois of Carolina Coops
Does keeping chickens really have to mean constant coop cleaning? Matt Dubois of Carolina Coops joins Jennifer Bryant and Carey Blackmon to discuss how thoughtful coop design can make backyard chicken keeping easier.We explore Matt’s app...
Fan Mail
Hi Carey you mentioned that you would hatch each week out of one incubator while you still had eggs turning. Was wondering how you kept your humidity. I’m building an incubator for quail with 3 turning trays on top and one hatching tray on the bottom. I was thinking of putting a divider in with vents so I could keep a higher humidity on the bottom but maybe that’s not necessary. I’d Love to hear your thoughts. Thanks Mark
Coshocton, Ohio
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