Poultry website answers questions about chickens

If you get questions about raising poultry,whether backyard or commercial flock, ANR has a website that can help: http://ucanr.edu/sites/poultry. The website was created by Maurice Pitesky, UC ANR Cooperative Extension poultry health specialist in the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis.

The site answers questions about raising and feeding birds and protecting them from avian flu and other diseases. It provides information for poultry production enterprises of all sizes:

• Backyard Poultry: individuals who raise, breed and or show backyard birds
• "Micro-Commercial" Producers: small-scale operations (typically fewer than 3,000 hens or 20,000 broilers)
• Commercial Producers: large operations

For more information about poultry or the website, contact Pitesky at (530) 752-3215 or mepitesky@ucdavis.edu.

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