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Food Safety

Click here to check out resources for food safety during COVID-19. The National Poultry Improvement Plan was established in the early 1930's to provide a cooperative industry, state, and federal program for the improvement of poultry and poultry products throughout the country.
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Black Soldier Fly Larvae Chicken Feed Supplement Study

Maurice Pitesky, UC Cooperative Extension poultry specialist with UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, Deb Niemeier professor from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Jean VanderGheynst professor in the Department of Biological Agricu...
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Beginning Farmer & Rancher Development Program Workshops

Thank you for your interest in our beginning farmer workshops! At these workshops, we will have talks, hands-on laboratories, and local farm tours. Each workshop will be unique, and will feature experts in the field and local farmers leading conversations about husbandry, preventative practices, coop design,…
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Backyard Chicken Egg Study

For currently available testing, please refer to the California Animal Health and Food Safety Lab (CAHFS) website for submission fees, options and guidelines. For toxicology-related questions, please feel free to contact Assistant Professor of Agricultural Toxicity Dr.
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Pastured Poultry Resources

How to test for Salmonella Enteritidis (SE) in Your Backyard Coop Marek's Disease Pamphlet Building an Eggmobile Naomi Dailey, PhD Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis Brooding and Production Management Richard Blatchford, Poultry Specialist in Cooperative Extension, Department of...
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Media

UC Davis News and Information (11/19/2015): Pastured Poultry Farm to explore solutions for small chicken farms The Sacramento Bee (11/21/2015): Experimental pasture poultry farm at UC Davis to provide timely research Daily Democrat (11/23/2015): Chickens forage on new UC Davis pasturized poultry far...
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California Backyard Poultry Census

Survey based and anecdotal observations demonstrate that backyard poultry ownership is increasing nationally and in California. At the same time, Californias ability to provide resources to backyard poultry owners is limited.
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Our Team

Maurice Pitesky, DVM, MPVM, DIpl. ACVPM mepitesky@ucdavis.edu Dr. Pitesky is an Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension in Population Health & Reproduction at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine. His faculty appointment is in poultry health and food safety epidemiology.
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UC Davis Pastured Poultry Farm

The farm is a poultry focused research, innovation and outreach hub for non-conventional free-range and pastured poultry producers (layers and broilers), master gardeners, backyard enthusiasts, educators, academia, students, food producers, food buyers, food safety and animal welfare auditors.
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