September 25, 2025 • 34 mins
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Meet the real people behind the Poultry Nerds Podcast! In this candid, behind-the-scenes episode, Carey and Jennifer interview each other—how Show Pro Farm Supply started, how Bryant’s Roost grew from six dozen quail eggs, what it takes to run a poultry brand and a podcast, and why evidence-based nutrition and incubation matter.
We also announce IncubationMasterclass.com—our brand-new, step-by-step Quail Incubation Masterclass (Chicken class next!). Intro price: $17 for lifetime access with printable cheat sheets, one-pagers, and research references. Learn to dial in temps, humidity, egg selection, breeder nutrition (feed tag “gotchas”), and how to get excellent hatch rates—even with a budget incubator.
Plus, a first look at Quail Mania 2: more speakers, two days of learning, live chat, giveaways, and year-long access upgrade option. Teasers include Heather Levine, Jerry Landry, Dr. “Moda” (poultry vet), and Brie Pats (data/statistics for breeding + Poultry Pro app)…with many more to be revealed.
🎧 What you’ll learn
- Our origin stories, roles, and how we run the show
- Practical incubation fixes: low/high temp & humidity, egg selection, breeder feed effects
- How to improve hatch rates with systems, not luck
- What’s new and bigger at Quail Mania 2 (and how to win prizes)
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Jennifer (00:01):
Welcome poultry nerds to another episode of the
Poultry Nerd Podcast.
Carey (00:07):
Wow, that sounded great
Jennifer (00:12):
for today.
We're gonna interview eachother,
Carey (00:17):
which seems weird, but there's lots of people that are
saying stuff online that theydon't know.
Essentially talking about us,some good, some not.
And so we decided that, hey,let's just interview each other
and tell everybody who we are,what we do.
(00:42):
Yeah.
Jennifer (00:43):
So what prompted this was somebody told I, I made a
post on the farm page, andsomebody said, Hey, they were
talking about that on thePoultry Nerd Podcast.
You should listen to it.
And I said, that was me.
So we realized that people maynot realize who we are.
Carey (01:03):
I I, based on what you were doing on your farm, I
thought it was a good idea thatyou should listen to the Poultry
Nerds Podcast.
Jennifer (01:14):
In my spare time, I'll do that.
I was here when it wasintroduced and recorded.
I don't have to listen to itagain later.
I
Carey (01:23):
listen to it a few times every week.
I have to get the editing down.
Jennifer (01:29):
Oh, you do?
Yeah.
See?
Okay, so there you go.
Let's talk about the behind thescenes.
So I'm the one that comes upwith the topics, the guests, the
scheduling, the website.
Look, let
Carey (01:44):
me tell y'all, when we first started this, we knew we
needed a website.
I didn't have time to build awebsite, and Jennifer was like,
I know what they look like.
And she has come a long way.
Like she is really amazing atwhat she can do in Squarespace
(02:06):
right now.
You would be surprised.
We have some stuff we're gonnatell you about later, that she's
the one who figured out how todo all that code.
Jennifer (02:16):
Yes.
So.
In today's episode, we are goingto give you some, what is the
word?
Some insight, some extrainformation that only the
listeners will be privy to.
Carey (02:33):
Yeah, we'll tell'em the tea, the
Jennifer (02:36):
what?
Carey (02:37):
The kids, they call it the
Jennifer (02:38):
tea.
What does that stand for?
Carey (02:41):
I mean, like TEA, like a glass of tea.
We would call it details or.
Gossip.
Jennifer (02:51):
Okay.
So there's, you know, that kindof stuff.
Carrie has teenagers in thehouse and knows lingos, and I
have grandkids.
Little differences there.
Carey (03:03):
Yeah.
I got a couple kids in my house.
Jennifer (03:05):
Yeah.
Why don't you go ahead andintroduce yourself then for our
listeners, what you
Carey (03:13):
Uh, my name's Carrie.
I'm the.
I guess I'm the tall nerd'causeit's a rooster.
I don't know what the chick is.
I'm one of the nerds, uhhuh.
I have a lot going on in life.
I'm a foster parent at thispoint.
I want to say it's 38, 39 kidsat the time of this recording
(03:38):
that has crossed my doorstep.
And let's see, one of the.
The second kid that came to usmoved out maybe six months ago.
We've been foster parents forfive years now, so anything, and
(03:59):
we foster anything from zero to,I think the oldest one we had
that finally aged out by her owndecision was 20.
In Alabama, you can stay untilyou're 21, so it does have some
benefits.
Jennifer (04:15):
These would be human kids that we're talking about?
Carey (04:18):
Yes.
The, I only have two goats,
Jennifer (04:22):
but sometimes
Carey (04:22):
they could be more respectful and more
entertaining.
Jennifer (04:26):
Yes.
That is a true statement.
But as far as poultry is conconcerned, you have Show Pro.
Carey (04:35):
Yes.
Show Pro company's called, soPro Farm Supply.
It started out because.
I wanted good quality feed formy birds.
I have some really nice RhodeIsland reds, and I wanted show
feed for'em.
(04:56):
I wanna feed my birds the best.
I, I don't go to crystals everyday and I'm not knocking people
to do, I want my birds to havethe best.
And when I started learningabout nutrition in that, it's
like I hit a rabbit hole andit's just.
And so I wanted a, I can't sendeverybody fee'cause shipping's
(05:20):
expensive.
And when I first started makingthis, I was making it for me.
I went to Jeff and I was like,Hey dude, I want you to make me
some formulas.
These are the things that I'mconcerned with, and I don't want
you to think about what it'sgonna cost.
I want you to think about what'sbest for the bird.
(05:41):
I have turkeys, I have largefoul, I have game foul, I have
quail.
Now I know that I can't feed allof'em the same thing at the same
time, but I would like to be ata happy medium on something at
some point.
That'd be cool.
(06:01):
And so that's where that cameout because I was mixing
supplement and this and that.
I don't have extra time for thatcrap.
So then people were like, wewant your feed.
Like I'd love to send it to you,but breaks ridiculous.
(06:23):
So I went back to Jeff and I waslike, Hey, I think I need to
supplement'cause people arewanting this.
And he was like, what do youwant it to do?
And I told him what I thoughtneeded to be in it.
He agreed.
We worked that out.
So the show Pro Poultry breedersupplement was born and when
other people wanted to buy myfeed and actually did, I needed
(06:46):
something to call it.
'cause I had to put a feed tagon it.
'cause you know, they make youregister all that crap being
original.
I decided to call it Show Protoo.
Jennifer (06:57):
I am now a show pro fan, just so you know.
He knows, but y'all know.
Now, so I started out with ForTrail.
So when he says Jeff, he'stalking about Jeff Maddox at For
Portray.
Now you guys have become bigfriend and worked together a
little bit
Carey (07:14):
bit.
Jennifer (07:14):
Yep.
And and I like Jeff.
He's been on the show a fewtimes.
He's very helpful.
Carey (07:21):
Yep.
Smart guy.
Jennifer (07:23):
So I think that I met you guys after I started doing
the feed trial a few years ago.
That's how we maybe came.
I don't even really remember how
Carey (07:36):
the way we met, and I've actually went back and tried to
figure this out.
When we talked about it a whileback, I was in a group that I
don't even know if I'm still init.
I may be banned by now for itbecause I can be a little blunt.
But I was in a group and I hadgotten back into chickens after
(07:58):
being out for a while.
There's a whole story behindthat.
But I searched for the bestRhode Island Reds that I could
find locally to me.
And I was looking forinformation about the Rhode
Island Reds.
And you and I had messaged onceor twice about some stuff, and
you messaged me, it was like,Hey, you need to reach out to
(08:20):
this guy.
He, if it's a red, he knowsabout it.
Jennifer (08:24):
Rip.
Carey (08:25):
Yep.
And like you and I startedtalking then, and that's.
I think that's when we reallyhit it off and became friends
when we found out that weweren't too far away from each
other.
Yep.
Jennifer (08:39):
You talk about me for a few minutes and then we're
gonna get to the big news.
Carey (08:42):
Tell us what you do.
Jennifer (08:45):
So Brian's roost is my farm in case people don't know
and they want to comment onBrian Roost, for me to listen to
the podcast to learn something.
Yeah.
Which cracks me up, but hey,it's okay.
It's social media.
Not everybody's gonna knoweverything,
Carey (09:02):
but you could learn from the lady on the podcast.
She is smart.
Jennifer (09:06):
I'll reach out to her tomorrow and see what she knows.
Carey (09:10):
Lemme know how that conversation goes.
Jennifer (09:13):
It could be exciting depending on the day.
Carey (09:16):
That's right.
Jennifer (09:16):
But anyway, what is
Carey (09:17):
Brian Spruce?
What is that?
Jennifer (09:19):
Brian Spruce.
So when we found, so David and Iare married, and when we moved
out here to Bell Buckle.
I'm in Tennessee.
We found the property.
It took us about, oh gosh, likemaybe seven months, eight months
to find the property.
We were shopping and I just toldhim that.
(09:40):
I said, we've come home to roostwhen we pulled up in the truck
and it just stuck.
And so that's how it got itsname.
So Bryant's roost because birdsroost.
Carey (09:50):
That makes sense.
I like it.
Jennifer (09:53):
So that's how it got its name.
And then.
I just had turkeys and ducks andorpingtons at the time, and I
was dabbling in bras actually.
And a friend, a guy stopped by,'cause I had put a sign out that
I had chicks for sale.
And he lived down the road maybeabout five or six minutes or so,
(10:17):
and I wasn't home.
So David talked to him becauseDavid's a talker and Ed was a
talker.
And what Ed wanted to know was.
Would I incubate some eggs forhim?
And so David said, you'll haveto talk to her when she gets
home.
And so I called him when I gothome and he said, I'll come back
(10:38):
down there.
Lo and behold, ed was a travelerin the sense of he was always in
his truck going somewhere andbrought me some quill eggs and
he said, what would you chargeme to incubate these quill eggs?
Carey (10:56):
So like he just shows up a couple dozen quail eggs and
says, Hey, do you incubatethese?
Jennifer (11:04):
Yes.
And he said, what would youcharge to incubate these quail
eggs?
And I was like, I don't evenknow.
Maybe it keeps some birds backfrom'em.
He said, sure, not a problem.
At the time, I just had thesetabletop incubators, nothing.
I had a GQF, but I put'em in atabletops.
I didn't know I, you have tounderstand, I was not on social
(11:28):
media.
I did not know what a Facebookgroup was.
I did not know any vans.
I just put these eggs in theincubator and he said they'll
come out in 17 days.
So I opened up the incubator'cause I heard'em chirping and
dang it, if these little quaildidn't pop out like popcorn and
run across the table, and it wasso stinking cute that I had to
(11:50):
have quail right then.
So I kept mine back.
He took his, we became supergood friends.
He passed away about a year agonow, but he and I are just two
peas in a pod at that point.
He, he helped me raise thequail, showed me how to clean
'em.
He was an older gentleman,helped me clean'em, taught me
(12:12):
all about all kinds of differentthings.
He's the one that got me in thepigs and the cows and all the
good stuff.
Carey (12:17):
He was your enabler.
Jennifer (12:19):
He was my enabler.
But he has so much information.
If you can find you an oldfarmer to give you guys
information, you need to do itand just befriend them.
'cause they just want to sharetheir stuff with you.
Anyway, he helped me clean allthe quail and everything.
He just had quail from theneighbor lady.
I don't even know where he got'em from.
(12:40):
And those things were murderous.
Little fancies out there.
Like if I'm gonna do this, wehave to try it differently.
So we dispatched all of thosequail and I found a guy about an
hour away that had the wildtype.
So I went over there and Ibought that
Carey (13:02):
sparrows.
Yeah.
Mirror everybody.
Jennifer (13:05):
He had standard barrows, what I know now as
standard pharaohs.
I bought six dozen eggs off ofhim and.
He got outta quail about a yearago, but he would come back
periodically.
He would come to visit me andhe'd be like, I just can't
believe that these are the samebirds.
(13:26):
So I never bought any morebirds.
Those six dozen are thebeginning of this whole empire
and inside of those eggs.
As I messed with the geneticsand understood the genetics, I
found the Egyptian, andapparently now I understand that
there was sparkly in them too.
To boot and I bred them up to bejumbo and I bred them to lay the
(13:50):
larger eggs.
And somewhere along the line Ifound Facebook and figured out
Facebook groups and all thatgood stuff.
And Brian SRUs is actually mysecond page.
The first page was Jen'sCritters and I had a pretty good
following.
And then one day Facebook said,I don't think I like you
anymore.
(14:11):
And they just deleted my pagewithout warning.
Carey (14:14):
That was nice.
Jennifer (14:15):
I know.
And we were actually on a roadtrip to Atlanta to pick up some
cages and when they deleted mypage, I was so mad.
We got stuck in traffic on 75.
Carey (14:27):
That made it worse.
Jennifer (14:28):
Yes.
I was just so mad and I createdthe new page, but I told David,
I was like, we're gonna do this,then let's just do it because
I'm not gonna be beholden this.
Zuckerberg about this stuffanymore.
And then that's when the websitewas born at that point.
So before that, I don't know, Iwasn't even social media, let
(14:51):
alone designing websites.
So the website tech side of ithas all been what, in the last
two years or so?
Three years.
I'm not paying somebody to startthe website.
Carey (15:02):
Yeah.
But I think you started doingit.
Probably two and a half yearsago, something like that.
You're like, I need to change.
I'm like, and figured it out.
Jennifer (15:12):
If you don't know who to do it.
It was like
Carey (15:13):
unleashing a monster.
Now I just, you're just like,oh, I'll ask you, Hey, in
Squarespace, how do you, andyou're like, oh.
And I'm like, Hey, I haven'teven to logged in yet.
Hang on.
Jennifer (15:25):
I've even learned, I've even taught myself CSS code
to customize the website.
Like I'm taking just likeeverything, taking the six dozen
eggs into this, now I'm takingthe little website into what it
is.
So yeah, it's a whole thing.
But in short, Brian's roost hasthe quail, has still has the
(15:49):
turkeys, but I had royal palmsand now I have red bourbons and
I had silver apple yard duckswhen we moved here.
But now I have lush harlequins.
And let's see what else?
Oh, the Buff Orpingtons.
I got rid of the bras.
Got rid of the Chens.
So we have Buff Orpingtons andyou got me into American
(16:12):
breasts, which I love.
I wish they would stay in thefence like the Orpingtons.
That kind of drives me batty.
Carey (16:19):
Oh, they're those things
Jennifer (16:21):
they
Carey (16:22):
forge.
They're really good escapeartists.
They really like to forge.
Jennifer (16:27):
So Ed gave, when Ed got sick, he had cancer and when
he got sick he gave me his pigsand they were Guinea hogs and I
hated them.
But pigs are really useful,especially if you have quail.
We also had a dry pond that wehad built and the wives tale, or
(16:48):
the old farmer way of doing itwas put pigs in it to wallow and
make it hold water.
Ed gave me the pigs to wallow inthe pond so it would hold water.
And you've been here enough toknow that, you know it's gone
from a dried dust bowl and nowit's stock with catfish.
Yeah, so that works.
(17:08):
And then back to Ed.
He had bottle fed a Holsteincow.
And when he got sick, he wasafraid he didn't want her to go
just to anybody, so he gave herto me.
And so that's Mabel out there inthe field.
That's how I got Mabel.
Oh,
Carey (17:25):
okay.
Jennifer (17:26):
She was a bottle set baby, which is why she's a 1500
pound cat that wants to sit inyour lat.
Yeah.
Carey (17:34):
You know she is.
Jennifer (17:37):
She
Carey (17:37):
is friendly.
Jennifer (17:39):
She is.
She eats milk bones.
And then That's funny.
Yeah.
And then add the goats, which Ihave generously shared with you.
Carey (17:49):
Look, I love Billy and Bobby.
They're funny.
I got them this whole play set,like kids' play set.
I found somebody had moved outof a rental and left it in the
yard and I was like, I guessit's like that.
I bring it home.
Tamara said, did you get thatfor the toddler?
I was like, she can play with ittoo.
(18:11):
With the goats.
The goats need something to do.
She watches TV and stuff.
So there's that.
And now my, one of my LGDs Lucy,she's a great Pyrenees, she will
lay on top and let her back feethang down the slide in her
(18:33):
front, like where the steps are.
And sometimes you'll see one ofthe goats, or once I've seen
both of'em.
On her back looking over the topof the castle part.
Yeah.
Jennifer (18:49):
Before the roost, I had gone to college to be a
veterinarian and about betweenthe bachelor's part where you
graduate and the point whereyou're gonna go to college and
got accepted to the veterinaryschool and actually moved to the
state where the veterinaryschool was.
(19:10):
You have a heart to heart withyourself and you realize people
are really mean to theiranimals.
And I had worked in a coupleclinics and realized, I think I
might spend more time in jailbecause people are mean to their
animals.
I don't know that this is a goodlife choice for myself.
Carey (19:35):
Yeah, that's one.
I don't work in the hospitalanymore.
I
Jennifer (19:37):
opted not to go to veterinary school, so there's
that.
So I still have the Bachelor ofScience in Animal Science.
Grew up on a farm, so I've hadanimals more often than I
haven't.
Are you ready to introduce,
Carey (19:56):
let's see if they're ready.
This is something that Jenniferand I both have been doing this
for a really long time.
Especially if you put thenumbers together.
So we thought mainly her and Iwas like, I love that idea that
(20:17):
this should be a thing.
Jennifer, drum roll.
Jennifer (20:22):
Drum roll.
Okay.
Can you do like sound effects onthe Yeah,
Carey (20:25):
I'll do that.
Jennifer (20:27):
Drum on the desks.
Hello.
Incubation masterclass.com
Carey (20:34):
is coming.
Jennifer (20:36):
It.
By the time they hear this, itshould be here.
Hopefully
Carey (20:39):
that is true.
Jennifer (20:42):
So we've been working on this class.
It's been in our heads forseveral months, but actually
gathering the information,feeling confident, and giving
out the information, and then ofcourse, pulling it all together.
We created two classes.
(21:02):
The first one being released isfor quail.
Everything you need to know onhow to hatch quail, like all the
way back at the beginning,before the egg was even thought
of all the way to any kind ofproblems you may have that you
need to figure out and tweakyour incubation skills.
Carey (21:24):
We're gonna tell you how the new the feed tag on the feed
you feed your breeder birdsaffects.
What hatches out.
We're gonna tell you that.
We're gonna tell you what tolook for
Jennifer (21:38):
with low temperature, high temperature, low humidity,
high humidity, egg selection,like it's a whole thing that I
really, really studied hard on.
And I'm gonna include all of theresearch papers that I read to
get all of this information.
They'll be tagged in theredownloadable.
(21:59):
Then right behind it is thechicken class will be right
behind it.
I would think with There
Carey (22:06):
is a difference in the way you incubate those.
Jennifer (22:09):
There's a little difference.
Yeah.
So we're gonna release bothclasses, but the coil class will
be first on the poultry nerdswebsite.
Yeah, but you can get theredirectly.
Incubation masterclass.com.
And just for the listeners.
Carey (22:29):
Yeah, don't tell nobody.
You gotta be, they gotta listen.
Jennifer (22:32):
Yeah.
Tell'em they have to listen toget the information and
subscribe to the show.
The introductory rate, lifetimeaccess, and we'll put in new
information as it becomesavailable.
If incubation ever changes.
$17.
Carey (22:50):
That's
Jennifer (22:52):
it.
That's it.
All my hard work.
$17.
Carey (22:56):
Worst case scenario, 17 bucks.
You're gonna get some cheatsheets.
You're gonna get some one pagersto help keep up and track what
you're incubating.
Now.
It's looking little forms sothat you didn't have to create
yourself.
Best case, I have so much
Jennifer (23:14):
energy.
In this
Carey (23:16):
best case, you're gonna learn how to get a really good
hatch rate.
Outta that$35 incubator that youbought off Amazon?
Jennifer (23:26):
Yes,
Carey (23:27):
because it is possible.
Jennifer (23:29):
It is.
I started with cheap incubators
Carey (23:31):
there.
There's a technique to it, but Icould do it.
Jennifer (23:37):
So that's the next big ticket coming.
When you hear this, it'savailable.
And then right after that, we'reworking on the next project.
Qua mania two
Carey (23:53):
quail Mania dose.
Dose trace.
No, just does.
Jennifer (23:59):
David's already talking about three and I'm
like, oh my gosh, we gottafinish two first.
Carey (24:04):
But we've got, this year, we've done, we started planning
for Quail Mania two, two weeksafter one.
We were making notes during oneand.
We've got a, we've got a lot.
We've what, twice as manyspeakers?
Jennifer (24:24):
Yes.
A lot
Carey (24:25):
more stuff to learn.
It's gonna be two days of stuff.
We've already got tons ofcommitments on giveaways.
But here's the kicker.
You've gotta be present to win.
Jennifer (24:39):
Yes.
Carey (24:41):
You don't say, here, we're going to the next one.
Jennifer (24:46):
So Qua mania airs in February, but of course we have
pull all of this together beforethe holidays because all the
breeders are just super busyafter Christmas.
Mm-hmm.
As they
Carey (24:57):
should be.
Jennifer (24:59):
You guys can watch for free in February, or there will
be an upgraded option whereyou'll have access to it for a
whole year plus some extras.
Yeah,
Carey (25:11):
because lots of people are giving out.
Handouts to go with herpresentation.
Jennifer (25:16):
Books,
Carey (25:17):
books, coupon code, all the goodies.
Jennifer (25:23):
So some of the speakers that we have, Heather
Levine from the Backyard ChickenSummit,
Carey (25:31):
that I didn't realize was a thing as much before as I do
now.
Mm-hmm.
But she's a really, I looked ather presentation, I got excited.
Jennifer (25:42):
A lot of people talk about growing your own food for
your animals.
So she talks about that.
Carey (25:47):
I was gonna say she does it.
Jennifer (25:49):
Yeah, she does do it.
Carey (25:50):
And she gives you the, she gets pretty in depth with
it, so that that made meactually want to start making
all of my dog's food instead ofsome of it.
Jennifer (26:01):
Jerry Landry?
Carey (26:03):
Yes.
Jennifer (26:04):
Oh my gosh.
I interviewed him for QuailMania and.
Carrie got to edit what Irecorded, but that was only half
of what we talking about theconversation.
Yes, he is so interesting.
He was like one of the firstpeople to import all the colors
(26:25):
into the states and he like, helives and breathes parakeets and
button quail or bud.
Is it budgie?
Budgie and button quail
Carey (26:36):
Budgie.
Jennifer (26:37):
Yeah.
Which I
Carey (26:38):
didn't, I've never heard of a budgie.
Jennifer (26:40):
I had budgie that he didn't like them.
Now I have button que.
So he had, I think he said 117aviaries.
Like a crazy amount of aviaries.
Yes.
Crazy.
Carey (26:53):
You put button quail in aviary.
Jennifer (26:55):
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
A lot of like, I would
Carey (26:57):
be afraid I'd step on one 'cause they're so small anyway.
Jennifer (27:01):
Yeah.
But as much as I'm pretty.
Knowledgeable, I would say, butnowhere near an expert on button
quail.
But man, I was, he was talkingand I was making notes and just
the little tweaks and tips thathe gave while I was talking to
(27:21):
him already have implementedthem into my breeding program
and just, it really kicked itinto high gear.
Quickly
Carey (27:30):
look anytime a nerd and talk to the nerd and take notes.
That's a good day.
Jennifer (27:37):
Yes.
We stayed on the phone tillalmost 11 o'clock at night.
I was like, dying, but I didn'twant it to.
I need to write all this stuffdown.
Carey (27:45):
Yeah.
Jennifer (27:46):
Let's see.
Oh, Dr.
Morida.
Carey (27:49):
Yep.
Dr.
Dr.
Morida.
She's on.
Jennifer (27:51):
Yes.
Carey (27:52):
She's talking about some pretty fun stuff.
Jennifer (27:54):
Just any kind of problems you might have with
your quail, but in the technicalway, not just the put Epsom
salts on it way.
Carey (28:03):
Oh Lord.
Please don more.
And,
Jennifer (28:07):
and one more.
We'll give away one more rightnow.
One more speaker.
Carey (28:11):
Brie Pat.
Jennifer (28:13):
We can't have qui mania without Brie.
Carey (28:16):
Look, she her presentation on using
statistics.
I was editing that the other dayand I was like, okay, I can see
how that works, but.
You had to have studied it for areally long time to find that
(28:37):
correlation.
Jennifer (28:39):
Yeah, but I'm
Carey (28:40):
gonna take it because I see it work.
Jennifer (28:44):
She's a serious nerd.
Carey (28:46):
Yeah.
Jennifer (28:47):
So she owns Poultry Pro, the new app for tracking
your information.
Everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Carey (28:54):
Like this thing will even send you daily reminders to
weigh your birds.
Or whatever bad
Jennifer (29:02):
when I get it and I'm like, oh crap.
Carey (29:05):
Like I wanna be like, how do you know I forgot to feed him
already?
The day's not over there.
There's a notification for that.
Jennifer (29:16):
But we have a, it's a pretty
Carey (29:17):
awesome app.
Jennifer (29:18):
We have a ton more speakers.
Yeah, that's not even
Carey (29:23):
half.
Jennifer (29:24):
Yeah, but we don't wanna give'em all away yet.
Only
Carey (29:27):
tune in later.
Jennifer (29:28):
Is it, is it gonna be October?
No,
Carey (29:31):
September.
We're late September right now.
Jennifer (29:33):
Yeah.
So we still got a little bit oftime getting everybody
coordinated and a big step.
We're gonna have giveaways andsweet stakes in between each
speaker, and I'm excited.
We learned a lot the first yearand we have really stepped,
you're not
Carey (29:51):
kidding,
Jennifer (29:52):
really stepped up our game for the second year.
Carey (29:56):
Yeah, my anxiety was through the roof the first year
because there were severalpieces of technology that were
supposed to work, and they weresupposed to work a certain way,
and I couldn't make them workthat way.
And that's really the, I've beenin it for over 20 years now.
(30:16):
It's supposed to work the way Itell it to work.
Like that's the whole point ofprogramming, and it wasn't
cooperating and made me mad.
Jennifer (30:25):
So here's some behind the scenes information.
So Quail Mania one was prettywell thought out.
I thought we got everybodypulled together.
We'd never done it before.
Never done anything like itbefore.
But we pulled it together and wedid it.
Carey (30:40):
I,
Jennifer (30:40):
and we had, I kicked
Carey (30:42):
down
Jennifer (30:43):
my part of to get the speakers, add all the videos
together.
And your part of it was figuringout how to get it to the people.
And here we are Friday night.
Like at what, 10 o'clock?
Carey (30:57):
Yeah.
Jennifer (30:57):
It's supposed to air Saturday morning and Friday
night, 10 o'clock.
We're like on game plan C.
The third try.
Carey (31:05):
Yeah.
Like I'm like, okay, lemme kickthis.
Let me try it.
It's late.
Nobody get the notification.
Maybe they're in bed and itdidn't work.
And I was like, you're supposedto.
Jennifer (31:18):
But we did it.
It worked.
We got the information outthere.
Wasn't pretty, but we did.
It
Carey (31:24):
kicked off on time,
Jennifer (31:26):
but we
Carey (31:26):
had quite a few people saying, Hey, the radio's not
showing.
The radio's not showing.
And we're like, it kicks off oncentral time.
And then boom, it kicked off ontime.
First time I saw that itactually worked.
I was like,
Jennifer (31:41):
but this time.
We have it hosted on thewebsite.
Everything's together.
Carey (31:50):
Oh yeah.
Jennifer (31:50):
Information downloadables.
We have a chat embedded so youguys can chit chat about the
video while it's going on.
Like I'm excited, like I've puta lot of work into the planning
this time, now that I can seehow it all comes together.
My brain works totallydifferently than most people, I
think.
Carey (32:10):
Yeah.
Jennifer (32:11):
Yeah.
You're like, yeah.
Yeah.
She's crazy to let her do herthing.
Carey (32:16):
That's the best.
You just let her do it and sheneeds you to do something.
She'll let you know.
Jennifer (32:22):
Yep.
Carey (32:22):
Works out.
Is that it?
We got anything else we're gonnashare?
Jennifer (32:27):
How long are we gonna leave the introductory rate of
$17 on incubation masterclass?
No.
A few weeks.
Carey (32:38):
That's a most, you know what?
Y'all just need to hurry up andsign up because whenever
Jennifer decides to cut it off,it's gonna go up to the regular
price.
Jennifer (32:49):
Yep.
Carey (32:50):
So do it as quick as you can.
Jennifer (32:53):
Yep.
And share all of this with yourfriend and please subscribe to
the podcast and we'll see younext time next week.
Carey (33:00):
Yep.
Welcome poultry nerds to another episode of the
Poultry Nerd Podcast.
Carey (00:07):
Wow, that sounded great
Jennifer (00:12):
for today.
We're gonna interview eachother,
Carey (00:17):
which seems weird, but there's lots of people that are
saying stuff online that theydon't know.
Essentially talking about us,some good, some not.
And so we decided that, hey,let's just interview each other
and tell everybody who we are,what we do.
(00:42):
Yeah.
Jennifer (00:43):
So what prompted this was somebody told I, I made a
post on the farm page, andsomebody said, Hey, they were
talking about that on thePoultry Nerd Podcast.
You should listen to it.
And I said, that was me.
So we realized that people maynot realize who we are.
Carey (01:03):
I I, based on what you were doing on your farm, I
thought it was a good idea thatyou should listen to the Poultry
Nerds Podcast.
Jennifer (01:14):
In my spare time, I'll do that.
I was here when it wasintroduced and recorded.
I don't have to listen to itagain later.
I
Carey (01:23):
listen to it a few times every week.
I have to get the editing down.
Jennifer (01:29):
Oh, you do?
Yeah.
See?
Okay, so there you go.
Let's talk about the behind thescenes.
So I'm the one that comes upwith the topics, the guests, the
scheduling, the website.
Look, let
Carey (01:44):
me tell y'all, when we first started this, we knew we
needed a website.
I didn't have time to build awebsite, and Jennifer was like,
I know what they look like.
And she has come a long way.
Like she is really amazing atwhat she can do in Squarespace
(02:06):
right now.
You would be surprised.
We have some stuff we're gonnatell you about later, that she's
the one who figured out how todo all that code.
Jennifer (02:16):
Yes.
So.
In today's episode, we are goingto give you some, what is the
word?
Some insight, some extrainformation that only the
listeners will be privy to.
Carey (02:33):
Yeah, we'll tell'em the tea, the
Jennifer (02:36):
what?
Carey (02:37):
The kids, they call it the
Jennifer (02:38):
tea.
What does that stand for?
Carey (02:41):
I mean, like TEA, like a glass of tea.
We would call it details or.
Gossip.
Jennifer (02:51):
Okay.
So there's, you know, that kindof stuff.
Carrie has teenagers in thehouse and knows lingos, and I
have grandkids.
Little differences there.
Carey (03:03):
Yeah.
I got a couple kids in my house.
Jennifer (03:05):
Yeah.
Why don't you go ahead andintroduce yourself then for our
listeners, what you
Carey (03:13):
Uh, my name's Carrie.
I'm the.
I guess I'm the tall nerd'causeit's a rooster.
I don't know what the chick is.
I'm one of the nerds, uhhuh.
I have a lot going on in life.
I'm a foster parent at thispoint.
I want to say it's 38, 39 kidsat the time of this recording
(03:38):
that has crossed my doorstep.
And let's see, one of the.
The second kid that came to usmoved out maybe six months ago.
We've been foster parents forfive years now, so anything, and
(03:59):
we foster anything from zero to,I think the oldest one we had
that finally aged out by her owndecision was 20.
In Alabama, you can stay untilyou're 21, so it does have some
benefits.
Jennifer (04:15):
These would be human kids that we're talking about?
Carey (04:18):
Yes.
The, I only have two goats,
Jennifer (04:22):
but sometimes
Carey (04:22):
they could be more respectful and more
entertaining.
Jennifer (04:26):
Yes.
That is a true statement.
But as far as poultry is conconcerned, you have Show Pro.
Carey (04:35):
Yes.
Show Pro company's called, soPro Farm Supply.
It started out because.
I wanted good quality feed formy birds.
I have some really nice RhodeIsland reds, and I wanted show
feed for'em.
(04:56):
I wanna feed my birds the best.
I, I don't go to crystals everyday and I'm not knocking people
to do, I want my birds to havethe best.
And when I started learningabout nutrition in that, it's
like I hit a rabbit hole andit's just.
And so I wanted a, I can't sendeverybody fee'cause shipping's
(05:20):
expensive.
And when I first started makingthis, I was making it for me.
I went to Jeff and I was like,Hey dude, I want you to make me
some formulas.
These are the things that I'mconcerned with, and I don't want
you to think about what it'sgonna cost.
I want you to think about what'sbest for the bird.
(05:41):
I have turkeys, I have largefoul, I have game foul, I have
quail.
Now I know that I can't feed allof'em the same thing at the same
time, but I would like to be ata happy medium on something at
some point.
That'd be cool.
(06:01):
And so that's where that cameout because I was mixing
supplement and this and that.
I don't have extra time for thatcrap.
So then people were like, wewant your feed.
Like I'd love to send it to you,but breaks ridiculous.
(06:23):
So I went back to Jeff and I waslike, Hey, I think I need to
supplement'cause people arewanting this.
And he was like, what do youwant it to do?
And I told him what I thoughtneeded to be in it.
He agreed.
We worked that out.
So the show Pro Poultry breedersupplement was born and when
other people wanted to buy myfeed and actually did, I needed
(06:46):
something to call it.
'cause I had to put a feed tagon it.
'cause you know, they make youregister all that crap being
original.
I decided to call it Show Protoo.
Jennifer (06:57):
I am now a show pro fan, just so you know.
He knows, but y'all know.
Now, so I started out with ForTrail.
So when he says Jeff, he'stalking about Jeff Maddox at For
Portray.
Now you guys have become bigfriend and worked together a
little bit
Carey (07:14):
bit.
Jennifer (07:14):
Yep.
And and I like Jeff.
He's been on the show a fewtimes.
He's very helpful.
Carey (07:21):
Yep.
Smart guy.
Jennifer (07:23):
So I think that I met you guys after I started doing
the feed trial a few years ago.
That's how we maybe came.
I don't even really remember how
Carey (07:36):
the way we met, and I've actually went back and tried to
figure this out.
When we talked about it a whileback, I was in a group that I
don't even know if I'm still init.
I may be banned by now for itbecause I can be a little blunt.
But I was in a group and I hadgotten back into chickens after
(07:58):
being out for a while.
There's a whole story behindthat.
But I searched for the bestRhode Island Reds that I could
find locally to me.
And I was looking forinformation about the Rhode
Island Reds.
And you and I had messaged onceor twice about some stuff, and
you messaged me, it was like,Hey, you need to reach out to
(08:20):
this guy.
He, if it's a red, he knowsabout it.
Jennifer (08:24):
Rip.
Carey (08:25):
Yep.
And like you and I startedtalking then, and that's.
I think that's when we reallyhit it off and became friends
when we found out that weweren't too far away from each
other.
Yep.
Jennifer (08:39):
You talk about me for a few minutes and then we're
gonna get to the big news.
Carey (08:42):
Tell us what you do.
Jennifer (08:45):
So Brian's roost is my farm in case people don't know
and they want to comment onBrian Roost, for me to listen to
the podcast to learn something.
Yeah.
Which cracks me up, but hey,it's okay.
It's social media.
Not everybody's gonna knoweverything,
Carey (09:02):
but you could learn from the lady on the podcast.
She is smart.
Jennifer (09:06):
I'll reach out to her tomorrow and see what she knows.
Carey (09:10):
Lemme know how that conversation goes.
Jennifer (09:13):
It could be exciting depending on the day.
Carey (09:16):
That's right.
Jennifer (09:16):
But anyway, what is
Carey (09:17):
Brian Spruce?
What is that?
Jennifer (09:19):
Brian Spruce.
So when we found, so David and Iare married, and when we moved
out here to Bell Buckle.
I'm in Tennessee.
We found the property.
It took us about, oh gosh, likemaybe seven months, eight months
to find the property.
We were shopping and I just toldhim that.
(09:40):
I said, we've come home to roostwhen we pulled up in the truck
and it just stuck.
And so that's how it got itsname.
So Bryant's roost because birdsroost.
Carey (09:50):
That makes sense.
I like it.
Jennifer (09:53):
So that's how it got its name.
And then.
I just had turkeys and ducks andorpingtons at the time, and I
was dabbling in bras actually.
And a friend, a guy stopped by,'cause I had put a sign out that
I had chicks for sale.
And he lived down the road maybeabout five or six minutes or so,
(10:17):
and I wasn't home.
So David talked to him becauseDavid's a talker and Ed was a
talker.
And what Ed wanted to know was.
Would I incubate some eggs forhim?
And so David said, you'll haveto talk to her when she gets
home.
And so I called him when I gothome and he said, I'll come back
(10:38):
down there.
Lo and behold, ed was a travelerin the sense of he was always in
his truck going somewhere andbrought me some quill eggs and
he said, what would you chargeme to incubate these quill eggs?
Carey (10:56):
So like he just shows up a couple dozen quail eggs and
says, Hey, do you incubatethese?
Jennifer (11:04):
Yes.
And he said, what would youcharge to incubate these quail
eggs?
And I was like, I don't evenknow.
Maybe it keeps some birds backfrom'em.
He said, sure, not a problem.
At the time, I just had thesetabletop incubators, nothing.
I had a GQF, but I put'em in atabletops.
I didn't know I, you have tounderstand, I was not on social
(11:28):
media.
I did not know what a Facebookgroup was.
I did not know any vans.
I just put these eggs in theincubator and he said they'll
come out in 17 days.
So I opened up the incubator'cause I heard'em chirping and
dang it, if these little quaildidn't pop out like popcorn and
run across the table, and it wasso stinking cute that I had to
(11:50):
have quail right then.
So I kept mine back.
He took his, we became supergood friends.
He passed away about a year agonow, but he and I are just two
peas in a pod at that point.
He, he helped me raise thequail, showed me how to clean
'em.
He was an older gentleman,helped me clean'em, taught me
(12:12):
all about all kinds of differentthings.
He's the one that got me in thepigs and the cows and all the
good stuff.
Carey (12:17):
He was your enabler.
Jennifer (12:19):
He was my enabler.
But he has so much information.
If you can find you an oldfarmer to give you guys
information, you need to do itand just befriend them.
'cause they just want to sharetheir stuff with you.
Anyway, he helped me clean allthe quail and everything.
He just had quail from theneighbor lady.
I don't even know where he got'em from.
(12:40):
And those things were murderous.
Little fancies out there.
Like if I'm gonna do this, wehave to try it differently.
So we dispatched all of thosequail and I found a guy about an
hour away that had the wildtype.
So I went over there and Ibought that
Carey (13:02):
sparrows.
Yeah.
Mirror everybody.
Jennifer (13:05):
He had standard barrows, what I know now as
standard pharaohs.
I bought six dozen eggs off ofhim and.
He got outta quail about a yearago, but he would come back
periodically.
He would come to visit me andhe'd be like, I just can't
believe that these are the samebirds.
(13:26):
So I never bought any morebirds.
Those six dozen are thebeginning of this whole empire
and inside of those eggs.
As I messed with the geneticsand understood the genetics, I
found the Egyptian, andapparently now I understand that
there was sparkly in them too.
To boot and I bred them up to bejumbo and I bred them to lay the
(13:50):
larger eggs.
And somewhere along the line Ifound Facebook and figured out
Facebook groups and all thatgood stuff.
And Brian SRUs is actually mysecond page.
The first page was Jen'sCritters and I had a pretty good
following.
And then one day Facebook said,I don't think I like you
anymore.
(14:11):
And they just deleted my pagewithout warning.
Carey (14:14):
That was nice.
Jennifer (14:15):
I know.
And we were actually on a roadtrip to Atlanta to pick up some
cages and when they deleted mypage, I was so mad.
We got stuck in traffic on 75.
Carey (14:27):
That made it worse.
Jennifer (14:28):
Yes.
I was just so mad and I createdthe new page, but I told David,
I was like, we're gonna do this,then let's just do it because
I'm not gonna be beholden this.
Zuckerberg about this stuffanymore.
And then that's when the websitewas born at that point.
So before that, I don't know, Iwasn't even social media, let
(14:51):
alone designing websites.
So the website tech side of ithas all been what, in the last
two years or so?
Three years.
I'm not paying somebody to startthe website.
Carey (15:02):
Yeah.
But I think you started doingit.
Probably two and a half yearsago, something like that.
You're like, I need to change.
I'm like, and figured it out.
Jennifer (15:12):
If you don't know who to do it.
It was like
Carey (15:13):
unleashing a monster.
Now I just, you're just like,oh, I'll ask you, Hey, in
Squarespace, how do you, andyou're like, oh.
And I'm like, Hey, I haven'teven to logged in yet.
Hang on.
Jennifer (15:25):
I've even learned, I've even taught myself CSS code
to customize the website.
Like I'm taking just likeeverything, taking the six dozen
eggs into this, now I'm takingthe little website into what it
is.
So yeah, it's a whole thing.
But in short, Brian's roost hasthe quail, has still has the
(15:49):
turkeys, but I had royal palmsand now I have red bourbons and
I had silver apple yard duckswhen we moved here.
But now I have lush harlequins.
And let's see what else?
Oh, the Buff Orpingtons.
I got rid of the bras.
Got rid of the Chens.
So we have Buff Orpingtons andyou got me into American
(16:12):
breasts, which I love.
I wish they would stay in thefence like the Orpingtons.
That kind of drives me batty.
Carey (16:19):
Oh, they're those things
Jennifer (16:21):
they
Carey (16:22):
forge.
They're really good escapeartists.
They really like to forge.
Jennifer (16:27):
So Ed gave, when Ed got sick, he had cancer and when
he got sick he gave me his pigsand they were Guinea hogs and I
hated them.
But pigs are really useful,especially if you have quail.
We also had a dry pond that wehad built and the wives tale, or
(16:48):
the old farmer way of doing itwas put pigs in it to wallow and
make it hold water.
Ed gave me the pigs to wallow inthe pond so it would hold water.
And you've been here enough toknow that, you know it's gone
from a dried dust bowl and nowit's stock with catfish.
Yeah, so that works.
(17:08):
And then back to Ed.
He had bottle fed a Holsteincow.
And when he got sick, he wasafraid he didn't want her to go
just to anybody, so he gave herto me.
And so that's Mabel out there inthe field.
That's how I got Mabel.
Oh,
Carey (17:25):
okay.
Jennifer (17:26):
She was a bottle set baby, which is why she's a 1500
pound cat that wants to sit inyour lat.
Yeah.
Carey (17:34):
You know she is.
Jennifer (17:37):
She
Carey (17:37):
is friendly.
Jennifer (17:39):
She is.
She eats milk bones.
And then That's funny.
Yeah.
And then add the goats, which Ihave generously shared with you.
Carey (17:49):
Look, I love Billy and Bobby.
They're funny.
I got them this whole play set,like kids' play set.
I found somebody had moved outof a rental and left it in the
yard and I was like, I guessit's like that.
I bring it home.
Tamara said, did you get thatfor the toddler?
I was like, she can play with ittoo.
(18:11):
With the goats.
The goats need something to do.
She watches TV and stuff.
So there's that.
And now my, one of my LGDs Lucy,she's a great Pyrenees, she will
lay on top and let her back feethang down the slide in her
(18:33):
front, like where the steps are.
And sometimes you'll see one ofthe goats, or once I've seen
both of'em.
On her back looking over the topof the castle part.
Yeah.
Jennifer (18:49):
Before the roost, I had gone to college to be a
veterinarian and about betweenthe bachelor's part where you
graduate and the point whereyou're gonna go to college and
got accepted to the veterinaryschool and actually moved to the
state where the veterinaryschool was.
(19:10):
You have a heart to heart withyourself and you realize people
are really mean to theiranimals.
And I had worked in a coupleclinics and realized, I think I
might spend more time in jailbecause people are mean to their
animals.
I don't know that this is a goodlife choice for myself.
Carey (19:35):
Yeah, that's one.
I don't work in the hospitalanymore.
I
Jennifer (19:37):
opted not to go to veterinary school, so there's
that.
So I still have the Bachelor ofScience in Animal Science.
Grew up on a farm, so I've hadanimals more often than I
haven't.
Are you ready to introduce,
Carey (19:56):
let's see if they're ready.
This is something that Jenniferand I both have been doing this
for a really long time.
Especially if you put thenumbers together.
So we thought mainly her and Iwas like, I love that idea that
(20:17):
this should be a thing.
Jennifer, drum roll.
Jennifer (20:22):
Drum roll.
Okay.
Can you do like sound effects onthe Yeah,
Carey (20:25):
I'll do that.
Jennifer (20:27):
Drum on the desks.
Hello.
Incubation masterclass.com
Carey (20:34):
is coming.
Jennifer (20:36):
It.
By the time they hear this, itshould be here.
Hopefully
Carey (20:39):
that is true.
Jennifer (20:42):
So we've been working on this class.
It's been in our heads forseveral months, but actually
gathering the information,feeling confident, and giving
out the information, and then ofcourse, pulling it all together.
We created two classes.
(21:02):
The first one being released isfor quail.
Everything you need to know onhow to hatch quail, like all the
way back at the beginning,before the egg was even thought
of all the way to any kind ofproblems you may have that you
need to figure out and tweakyour incubation skills.
Carey (21:24):
We're gonna tell you how the new the feed tag on the feed
you feed your breeder birdsaffects.
What hatches out.
We're gonna tell you that.
We're gonna tell you what tolook for
Jennifer (21:38):
with low temperature, high temperature, low humidity,
high humidity, egg selection,like it's a whole thing that I
really, really studied hard on.
And I'm gonna include all of theresearch papers that I read to
get all of this information.
They'll be tagged in theredownloadable.
(21:59):
Then right behind it is thechicken class will be right
behind it.
I would think with There
Carey (22:06):
is a difference in the way you incubate those.
Jennifer (22:09):
There's a little difference.
Yeah.
So we're gonna release bothclasses, but the coil class will
be first on the poultry nerdswebsite.
Yeah, but you can get theredirectly.
Incubation masterclass.com.
And just for the listeners.
Carey (22:29):
Yeah, don't tell nobody.
You gotta be, they gotta listen.
Jennifer (22:32):
Yeah.
Tell'em they have to listen toget the information and
subscribe to the show.
The introductory rate, lifetimeaccess, and we'll put in new
information as it becomesavailable.
If incubation ever changes.
$17.
Carey (22:50):
That's
Jennifer (22:52):
it.
That's it.
All my hard work.
$17.
Carey (22:56):
Worst case scenario, 17 bucks.
You're gonna get some cheatsheets.
You're gonna get some one pagersto help keep up and track what
you're incubating.
Now.
It's looking little forms sothat you didn't have to create
yourself.
Best case, I have so much
Jennifer (23:14):
energy.
In this
Carey (23:16):
best case, you're gonna learn how to get a really good
hatch rate.
Outta that$35 incubator that youbought off Amazon?
Jennifer (23:26):
Yes,
Carey (23:27):
because it is possible.
Jennifer (23:29):
It is.
I started with cheap incubators
Carey (23:31):
there.
There's a technique to it, but Icould do it.
Jennifer (23:37):
So that's the next big ticket coming.
When you hear this, it'savailable.
And then right after that, we'reworking on the next project.
Qua mania two
Carey (23:53):
quail Mania dose.
Dose trace.
No, just does.
Jennifer (23:59):
David's already talking about three and I'm
like, oh my gosh, we gottafinish two first.
Carey (24:04):
But we've got, this year, we've done, we started planning
for Quail Mania two, two weeksafter one.
We were making notes during oneand.
We've got a, we've got a lot.
We've what, twice as manyspeakers?
Jennifer (24:24):
Yes.
A lot
Carey (24:25):
more stuff to learn.
It's gonna be two days of stuff.
We've already got tons ofcommitments on giveaways.
But here's the kicker.
You've gotta be present to win.
Jennifer (24:39):
Yes.
Carey (24:41):
You don't say, here, we're going to the next one.
Jennifer (24:46):
So Qua mania airs in February, but of course we have
pull all of this together beforethe holidays because all the
breeders are just super busyafter Christmas.
Mm-hmm.
As they
Carey (24:57):
should be.
Jennifer (24:59):
You guys can watch for free in February, or there will
be an upgraded option whereyou'll have access to it for a
whole year plus some extras.
Yeah,
Carey (25:11):
because lots of people are giving out.
Handouts to go with herpresentation.
Jennifer (25:16):
Books,
Carey (25:17):
books, coupon code, all the goodies.
Jennifer (25:23):
So some of the speakers that we have, Heather
Levine from the Backyard ChickenSummit,
Carey (25:31):
that I didn't realize was a thing as much before as I do
now.
Mm-hmm.
But she's a really, I looked ather presentation, I got excited.
Jennifer (25:42):
A lot of people talk about growing your own food for
your animals.
So she talks about that.
Carey (25:47):
I was gonna say she does it.
Jennifer (25:49):
Yeah, she does do it.
Carey (25:50):
And she gives you the, she gets pretty in depth with
it, so that that made meactually want to start making
all of my dog's food instead ofsome of it.
Jennifer (26:01):
Jerry Landry?
Carey (26:03):
Yes.
Jennifer (26:04):
Oh my gosh.
I interviewed him for QuailMania and.
Carrie got to edit what Irecorded, but that was only half
of what we talking about theconversation.
Yes, he is so interesting.
He was like one of the firstpeople to import all the colors
(26:25):
into the states and he like, helives and breathes parakeets and
button quail or bud.
Is it budgie?
Budgie and button quail
Carey (26:36):
Budgie.
Jennifer (26:37):
Yeah.
Which I
Carey (26:38):
didn't, I've never heard of a budgie.
Jennifer (26:40):
I had budgie that he didn't like them.
Now I have button que.
So he had, I think he said 117aviaries.
Like a crazy amount of aviaries.
Yes.
Crazy.
Carey (26:53):
You put button quail in aviary.
Jennifer (26:55):
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
A lot of like, I would
Carey (26:57):
be afraid I'd step on one 'cause they're so small anyway.
Jennifer (27:01):
Yeah.
But as much as I'm pretty.
Knowledgeable, I would say, butnowhere near an expert on button
quail.
But man, I was, he was talkingand I was making notes and just
the little tweaks and tips thathe gave while I was talking to
(27:21):
him already have implementedthem into my breeding program
and just, it really kicked itinto high gear.
Quickly
Carey (27:30):
look anytime a nerd and talk to the nerd and take notes.
That's a good day.
Jennifer (27:37):
Yes.
We stayed on the phone tillalmost 11 o'clock at night.
I was like, dying, but I didn'twant it to.
I need to write all this stuffdown.
Carey (27:45):
Yeah.
Jennifer (27:46):
Let's see.
Oh, Dr.
Morida.
Carey (27:49):
Yep.
Dr.
Dr.
Morida.
She's on.
Jennifer (27:51):
Yes.
Carey (27:52):
She's talking about some pretty fun stuff.
Jennifer (27:54):
Just any kind of problems you might have with
your quail, but in the technicalway, not just the put Epsom
salts on it way.
Carey (28:03):
Oh Lord.
Please don more.
And,
Jennifer (28:07):
and one more.
We'll give away one more rightnow.
One more speaker.
Carey (28:11):
Brie Pat.
Jennifer (28:13):
We can't have qui mania without Brie.
Carey (28:16):
Look, she her presentation on using
statistics.
I was editing that the other dayand I was like, okay, I can see
how that works, but.
You had to have studied it for areally long time to find that
(28:37):
correlation.
Jennifer (28:39):
Yeah, but I'm
Carey (28:40):
gonna take it because I see it work.
Jennifer (28:44):
She's a serious nerd.
Carey (28:46):
Yeah.
Jennifer (28:47):
So she owns Poultry Pro, the new app for tracking
your information.
Everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Carey (28:54):
Like this thing will even send you daily reminders to
weigh your birds.
Or whatever bad
Jennifer (29:02):
when I get it and I'm like, oh crap.
Carey (29:05):
Like I wanna be like, how do you know I forgot to feed him
already?
The day's not over there.
There's a notification for that.
Jennifer (29:16):
But we have a, it's a pretty
Carey (29:17):
awesome app.
Jennifer (29:18):
We have a ton more speakers.
Yeah, that's not even
Carey (29:23):
half.
Jennifer (29:24):
Yeah, but we don't wanna give'em all away yet.
Only
Carey (29:27):
tune in later.
Jennifer (29:28):
Is it, is it gonna be October?
No,
Carey (29:31):
September.
We're late September right now.
Jennifer (29:33):
Yeah.
So we still got a little bit oftime getting everybody
coordinated and a big step.
We're gonna have giveaways andsweet stakes in between each
speaker, and I'm excited.
We learned a lot the first yearand we have really stepped,
you're not
Carey (29:51):
kidding,
Jennifer (29:52):
really stepped up our game for the second year.
Carey (29:56):
Yeah, my anxiety was through the roof the first year
because there were severalpieces of technology that were
supposed to work, and they weresupposed to work a certain way,
and I couldn't make them workthat way.
And that's really the, I've beenin it for over 20 years now.
(30:16):
It's supposed to work the way Itell it to work.
Like that's the whole point ofprogramming, and it wasn't
cooperating and made me mad.
Jennifer (30:25):
So here's some behind the scenes information.
So Quail Mania one was prettywell thought out.
I thought we got everybodypulled together.
We'd never done it before.
Never done anything like itbefore.
But we pulled it together and wedid it.
Carey (30:40):
I,
Jennifer (30:40):
and we had, I kicked
Carey (30:42):
down
Jennifer (30:43):
my part of to get the speakers, add all the videos
together.
And your part of it was figuringout how to get it to the people.
And here we are Friday night.
Like at what, 10 o'clock?
Carey (30:57):
Yeah.
Jennifer (30:57):
It's supposed to air Saturday morning and Friday
night, 10 o'clock.
We're like on game plan C.
The third try.
Carey (31:05):
Yeah.
Like I'm like, okay, lemme kickthis.
Let me try it.
It's late.
Nobody get the notification.
Maybe they're in bed and itdidn't work.
And I was like, you're supposedto.
Jennifer (31:18):
But we did it.
It worked.
We got the information outthere.
Wasn't pretty, but we did.
It
Carey (31:24):
kicked off on time,
Jennifer (31:26):
but we
Carey (31:26):
had quite a few people saying, Hey, the radio's not
showing.
The radio's not showing.
And we're like, it kicks off oncentral time.
And then boom, it kicked off ontime.
First time I saw that itactually worked.
I was like,
Jennifer (31:41):
but this time.
We have it hosted on thewebsite.
Everything's together.
Carey (31:50):
Oh yeah.
Jennifer (31:50):
Information downloadables.
We have a chat embedded so youguys can chit chat about the
video while it's going on.
Like I'm excited, like I've puta lot of work into the planning
this time, now that I can seehow it all comes together.
My brain works totallydifferently than most people, I
think.
Carey (32:10):
Yeah.
Jennifer (32:11):
Yeah.
You're like, yeah.
Yeah.
She's crazy to let her do herthing.
Carey (32:16):
That's the best.
You just let her do it and sheneeds you to do something.
She'll let you know.
Jennifer (32:22):
Yep.
Carey (32:22):
Works out.
Is that it?
We got anything else we're gonnashare?
Jennifer (32:27):
How long are we gonna leave the introductory rate of
$17 on incubation masterclass?
No.
A few weeks.
Carey (32:38):
That's a most, you know what?
Y'all just need to hurry up andsign up because whenever
Jennifer decides to cut it off,it's gonna go up to the regular
price.
Jennifer (32:49):
Yep.
Carey (32:50):
So do it as quick as you can.
Jennifer (32:53):
Yep.
And share all of this with yourfriend and please subscribe to
the podcast and we'll see younext time next week.
Carey (33:00):
Yep.
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