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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...
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.
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.
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.
In response to the unprecedented growth in backyard poultry farms and the limited resources available to them, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) sponsored the Train the Trainers: Poultry event--co-hosted by UC Cooperative Extension and the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
Senior design project on how to use sensors to monitor poultry's movements and ambient environment: Poultry Data Acquisition Senior design project on how to use Black Soldier Fly larvae as supplemental poultry feed: Black Soldier Fly Learn more about and view clips from the project here.
The Science of Incubation (UCD) Nutrition Basics (UCD) Clean Water: An important step for happy and healthy chickens (UCD) Building a Backyard Coop (UCD) All-In-All-Out Poultry Management (UCD) Euthanasia (UCD) Fecal Comparison (AllTech) Common Pests of Poultry (Veterinary Entomology) Registered Pes...
