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  • Poultry owners can protect birds from avian influenza virus by reducing exposure to waterfowl and other wild birds. Maurice Pitesky, UCCE poultry specialist, suggests erecting fences and eliminating spilled feed and ponding water that may attract wild birds.
    Poultry owners urged to protect birds from avian influenza virus

    Apr 20, 2022

    • Agriculture
  • Backyard birds are potential sources of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. Beatriz Martinez Lopez and Alda Pires have a website, FARM PPE, with resources for poultry owners to reduce disease risk. Photo by Helder Quintas
    Backyard chickens stay healthy with help from UC researchers, website

    Mar 8, 2022

    • Agriculture
  • To help deliver poultry health information more effectively, UC Cooperative Extension is asking chicken and game bird owners to answer a survey.
    Chicken owners invited to take survey guiding disease prevention

    Aug 20, 2021

    • Agriculture
  • Chickens in pasture
    Beginning poultry farmers invited to UC workshops

    Dec 27, 2018

    • Agriculture
  • UC Cooperative Extension will host community workshops on livestock health.
    UC offers backyard and community livestock and poultry workshops in Northern California

    Sep 27, 2018

    • Agriculture
  • People who raise poultry outdoors are encouraged to have their eggs tested for environmental contaminants.
    Got backyard chickens? Get their eggs tested for free

    Mar 28, 2018

    • Environment
    • Food
  • In video game Foldit's Aflatoxin Challenge, players try to fold a protein into a shape that will break down the aflatoxin molecule into something harmless.
    Monthly news round up: February 2018

    Feb 28, 2018

    • 4-H
    • Agriculture
    • Economic Development
  • Migrating waterfowl stop at Yolo Bypass. UC Davis research has shown that 5 percent to 20 percent of waterfowl carry avian influenza.
    New California Waterfowl Tracker website launched to help poultry producers assess bird flu risk

    Feb 23, 2018

    • Agriculture
  • Egg-laying chickens pose at the UC Davis Pastured Poultry Farm. Photo by Trina Wood
    Military veterans and beginning farmers invited to poultry workshops

    Nov 7, 2017

  • By learning how backyard poultry enthusiasts share information with each other, UC researchers will be able to deliver poultry-health information more effectively to poultry owners.
    Backyard poultry enthusiasts invited to participate in UC research survey

    May 9, 2017

  • To prevent exposure to avian influenza virus, use housing, fencing or netting to prevent contact between your birds and wild birds, say UC poultry experts.
    Protect your poultry from avian flu

    Mar 7, 2017

  • Migrating wild birds may expose backyard ducks to disease.
    Are your birds safe from avian influenza?

    Feb 7, 2017

  • This NEXRAD map shows where migrating waterfowl are gathered in rice fields, herbaceous wetlands and other agricultural land.
    Weather radar helps researchers track bird flu

    Dec 7, 2016

  • chickens
    Got chickens? Backyard poultry workshop offered in Oakland March 12

    Feb 12, 2016

  • Student creators of the Eggmobile. (Photo: Don Preisler)
    Pastured poultry farm to foster innovation for small chicken farms

    Dec 16, 2015

  • Backyard chickens are susceptible to avian flu spread by birds migrating on the Pacific flyway. (Photo: Wikipedia)
    Reduce the risk of bird flu in backyard chickens

    Nov 4, 2015

  • Most risk of poultry contamination can be avoided by thorough hand-washing, never rinsing the raw chicken and using a calibrated thermometer to verify the cooked chicken's temperature.
    UC Davis study identifies risky food safety practices in home kitchens

    Jun 27, 2014

  • Roasted chicken. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
    When salmonella outbreak hit, consumers responded

    Oct 22, 2013

  • The price of chicken will likely rise.
    The price of chicken feed is rising

    Oct 17, 2011

  • Animal agriculture in the spotlight

    May 6, 2008

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