Merry Christmas from the Poultry Nerds | Gratitude, Growth & What’s Coming in 2026

Merry Christmas from the hosts of the Poultry Nerds Podcast!
In this special Christmas Day episode, Carrie and Jennifer take a moment to say thank you to the incredible listeners around the world who have supported the show over the past two years.

What started as a simple weekly conversation about chickens, quail, turkeys, and poultry life has grown into a global community with over 50,000 downloads, educational courses, live events, and so much more. In this short and heartfelt episode, we reflect on the unexpected growth of the podcast, share some lighthearted farm stories (including winter eggs and confused birds), and give a sneak peek at exciting plans coming in 2026.

Whether you raise backyard chickens, gamefowl, quail, turkeys, or simply love learning about poultry, this episode is our way of saying thank you and wishing you and your flock a very Merry Christmas.

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Join Carey of Show Pro Farm Supply and Jennifer of Bryant's Roost as we delve into chickens and quail (mostly)  to help you enjoy your birds more and worry less. Backyard chicken keeping shouldnt be stressfull, let's get back to the simple days

Transcript

Carey: 0:39

Hello, and welcome to a Merry Christmas edition of the Poultry Nerds podcast. I'm Carey.

Jennifer: 0:50

I'm Jennifer.

Carey: 0:52

Merry Christmas. And we're here to say Merry Christmas. Yeah,

Jennifer: 0:56

that's, that's it.

Carey: 0:59

Yep. Me, I mean, this episode is gonna air on Christmas Day. Yeah. And we've got a lot of really awesome fans. That download the podcast every week and we just wanna say thanks because yes, we never intended for this to be a huge podcast. You know, we just thought we'd get together once a week and talk about chickens or some kind of poultry, and people all over the world listen, and we're really grateful because it's kind of humbling to know that people all over listen.

Jennifer: 1:36

We had no expectations when this started. We just thought, well, let's try it and see what doesn't happen. And now, yeah, we set the

Carey: 1:43

bar high.

Jennifer: 1:44

Now we're two years in. Yeah, 50,000 downloads. Two e-course, a live event every year.

Carey: 1:58

I was gonna say, in a partridge, in a pear tree.

Jennifer: 2:00

It, it kind of grew like more than I ever expected.

Carey: 2:04

It's really fun. Like I, I naturally have an instinct where I like to help people and who don't love quail and chickens and turkeys like, you know, today I was play on my turkeys and, you know, they were real excited because they wanted to know what I was doing. Did they make all that? Noise. It sounds like a ewok.

Jennifer: 2:35

They're confused.

Carey: 2:37

Well, I was too. I mean,

Jennifer: 2:38

since we try not to date our podcast, but since we're talking about Christmas, it's gonna be like record 76 here on Christmas. Um, yeah, it's already in the, the verge are like laying and they're confused.

Carey: 2:55

Yeah. I mean, mine, my turkeys there, there was some eggs in there. Which was confusing to me, but mine have been doing it on and off for a while. Probably confusing to them to see me in shorts.

Jennifer: 3:10

I found a duck nest today with 17 eggs on it.

Carey: 3:13

Geez. Stick'em in the incubator and see what happens.

Jennifer: 3:16

No, I'm scared. I don't know how long they've been there.

Carey: 3:20

Oh, you know, that's a thing.

Jennifer: 3:23

Yeah. But yeah, so it's gonna be a warm Christmas, no snow. I.

Carey: 3:30

Which means, you know, next month it'll probably be record lows.

Jennifer: 3:36

Yeah.

Carey: 3:37

And then the day after we have the lowest temperature in the last 30 years, it'll be 70.

Jennifer: 3:45

Yep. So we won't keep you. We just wanted to say thank you until you Merry Christmas and we have lots of cool things coming in 2026.

Carey: 3:57

Yeah, I mean, check out poultry nerd podcast.com and see all the stuff that we've got. It's all on there. We like to keep it simple and stick it all in one spot.

Jennifer: 4:12

Yep.

Carey: 4:15

So is that it?

Jennifer: 4:16

That's it,

Carey: 4:17

yeah. Short and simple. See y'all next week.

Jennifer: 4:21

Bye.