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The secrets of poult success

The construction of our release pens, the way we manage them and the quality of the poults themselves when they first go in are key to having a decent season.

True, there are other variables — cropping patterns, how well our own crops grow, poaching, predation and disturbance, to name but a few. But on the whole, it is how well they do in the three or four weeks they are in the pens that makes or breaks a season.

If I had to narrow it down to a single thing, it would be the quality of the poults. Too many people

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