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The Basics Chick Care Feeding Your Birds Diseases Eggs Special Topics The California Animal Health and Food Safety laboratories provide necropsy and other testing services for poultry owners. Click here to view their necropsy submission guidelines or here to learn more about their other services.

CDFA Avian Health Program Egg Safety and Quality California Poultry Federation Pacific Egg and Poultry Association National Chicken Council...

RoadmapRespiratory DiseasesSkin/Integument DiseasesGastrointestinal DiseasesReproductive DiseasesLocomotor DiseasesZoonotic DiseasesAdditional Resources Respiratory DiseasesAvian InfluenzaCDFA updatesCDC updates and additional informationAvian Influenza, A Disease Most Fowl (CW-UCD)Preparing…

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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.

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...

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,…

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.

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...

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...