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Poultry Keepers Podcast
Welcome to The Poultry Keepers Podcast
Cluck, Chat, and Rule the Roost! One Egg-cellent Episode at a Time!
At The Poultry Keepers Podcast, we’re building a friendly, informative, and inspiring space for today’s small-flock poultry keepers. Whether you're a seasoned pro with decades of experience or just beginning your backyard chicken journey, you’ve found your community. Here, poultry isn’t just a hobby—it’s a way of life.
Each episode is packed with practical, science-based information to help you care for your flock with confidence. From hatching eggs and breeding strategies to flock health, nutrition, housing, and show prep—we cover it all with insight and heart.
Hosted by Rip Stalvey, Mandelyn Royal, and John Gunterman, our show brings together over 70 years of combined poultry experience. We believe in the power of shared knowledge and the importance of accuracy, offering trusted content for poultry keepers who want to do right by their birds.
So pull up a perch and join us each week as we cluck, chat, and rule the roost—one egg-cellent episode at a time.
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Poultry Keepers Podcast
BONUS CONTENT: Do Chicks Need Electrolytes?
In this clip Jeff Mattocks shares his thoughts on giving baby chicks electrolytes.
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Jeff, what's your feelings on electrolytes and vitamin packages for baby chicks? Do they need it?
Jeff Mattocks:They shouldn't need it, these foil, pouch pack electrolytes or stuff that, when I read down through the label there's too many chlorides. Okay, there's sodium chloride, potassium chloride, magnesium chloride. Folks, those are all salts, and they're designed to go into the bloodstream quickly. There's a time and a place for electrolytes, if you detect some dehydration, and you can see that by skin. You can look at their feet and see that. You can see around their eyes if their eyes are a little bit drawn in or sunken in from normal, if they're stressed. They just sell those electrolyte packs like crazy but, do we really need them? No. We need really good clean water. You can put a little apple cider vinegar in it if you want. We put the homemade electrolyte mix out there works as good as anything you're gonna buy in a foil pouch. But just don't do it because you think you're supposed to do it. Do it for the right reasons.
