Sodium Isn’t the Villain — Imbalance Is For decades, we’ve been told that salt is the enemy. Lower your sodium. Avoid salt. Choose “low-sodium” everything.In human and animal nutrition, the story is more complex.Sodium is not optional. It’s an essential mineral that our bodies cannot function without. One tough farming lesson: we lost nearly 400 chicks over 6 weeks due to a salt deficiency in the feed. They stopped growing, drank less water, and nothing we tried worked. Finally, feed tests showed almost no sodium—the company missed the salt to a whole batch of feed.

The Big Game is only a few weeks away...I’m not sure if you’re following along and excited for the teams in the running or if you're like us and have NO CLUE what’s happening. As a chicken farmer, I have to share some wing facts since it’s the day this often forgotten cut gets to shine.