MOST RECENT
- Life of a backyard chicken flock owner (Apr 2, 2024)
- Understanding the chicken breeds, varieties, and strains (Mar 5, 2024)
- Aves de corral 101 (Feb 8, 2024)
- Poultry 101 (Feb 6, 2024)
- Chicken health and well-being (Jan 2, 2024)
HEALTH
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- Chicken health and well-being (Jan 2, 2024)
- Respiratory issues with poultry (Oct 3, 2023)
- Sanitizing in a poultry house (Aug 1, 2023)
- Doing fecal flotations for the identification of intestinal parasites in poultry (June 6, 2023)
- Reproductive issues with small and backyard poultry flocks (Feb 7, 2023)
- Overview of chicken anatomy (Dec 6, 2022)
- External parasites of poultry (Jul 7, 2022)
- Biosecurity for small and backyard poultry flocks (Jun 2022)
- Controlling internal parasites of poultry (May 3, 2022)
- Backyard poultry: To vaccinate or not? (Aug 10, 2021)
- Backyard flock home remedies – What you should and should not do (Jun 1, 2021)
- Are heavy metals a concern for backyard and free-range poultry flocks? (Mar 2, 2021)
- Common poultry diseases (May 5, 2020)
- How to perform a simple necropsy (Feb 19, 2020)
- Working with your state diagnostic lab (Aug 7, 2018)
- Staying healthy with a backyard flock (Jan 21, 2020)
- Health concerns with egg-laying flocks (Feb 11, 2015)
- Poultry diseases that can be spread to humans (Sep 4, 2018)
- Poultry medications: New rules affecting small and backyard flocks (Dec 12, 2016)
- Preventing disease in backyard poultry flocks (May 29, 2019)
- Biosecurity for small and backyard flocks (Feb 10, 2015)
- Avian influenza management options, composting procedures and lessons learned (Feb 17, 2017)
- Composting mortality from avian influenza (Sep 16, 2015)
NUTRITION
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- Making your own feed (Nov 1, 2022)
- Creative cooking with poultry meat (Dec 7, 2021)
- Selecting, handling, and cooking turkey (Nov 4, 2020)
- Producing and using black soldier fly larvae for small poultry flocks (March 22, 2019)
- Feeding a small and backyard poultry flock (Dec 4, 2018)
- Nutrition for small and backyard flocks (Apr 19, 2018)
- Essential oils: What are they and why would you want to use them with poultry? (Nov 9, 2017)
- Alternatives to antibiotics in poultry production (Jun 12, 2005)
BEHAVIOR
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- Poultry welfare for small and backyard flocks (Jan 4, 2022)
- Poultry-human bond (Mar 10, 2020)
- Poultry behavior and how to ‘read’ a flock (Jun 5, 2018)
- Environmental enrichment for small and backyard poultry flocks (Mar 5, 2018)
- Animal welfare considerations for backyard poultry flocks (Feb 2, 2017)
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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- Hatching waterfowl eggs in a home incubator (May 4, 2023)
- Daily management of a home poultry incubator (April 4, 2023)
- Overview of chicken anatomy (Dec 6, 2022)
- Breeding purebred poultry (Sep 6, 2022)
- Basics of poultry genetics (Aug 2, 2022)
- Overview of chicken anatomy (Nov 1, 2018)
- STEM and poultry (Jul 17, 2018)
- Avian genetics: Introduction to poultry breeding (Jan 12, 2017)
FOOD SAFETY
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- Are heavy metals a concern for backyard and free-range poultry flocks? (Mar 2, 2021)
- Selecting, handling, and cooking turkey (Nov 4, 2020)
- Choosing and using disinfectants with your small and backyard poultry flock (Oct 5, 2017)
- Proper care and washing of eggs from small and backyard flocks (Sep 5, 2017)
- Safe handling of eggs from small and backyard flocks (Oct 11, 2016)
MANAGEMENT
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- Life of a backyard chicken flock owner (Apr 2, 2024)
- Understanding the chicken breeds, varieties, and strains (Mar 5, 2024)
- Aves de corral 101 (Feb 8, 2024)
- Poultry 101 (Feb 6, 2024)
- Managing pasture poultry (Dec 5, 2023)
- Designing a small flock poultry house (Nov 7, 2023)
- Sanitizing in a poultry house (Aug 1, 2023)
- Doing fecal flotations for the identification of intestinal parasites in poultry (June 6, 2023)
- Hatching waterfowl eggs in a home incubator (May 4, 2023)
- Daily management of a home poultry incubator (April 4, 2023)
- Raising turkeys in small and backyard flocks (Mar 7, 2023)
- Making your own feed (Nov 1, 2022)
- Litter management for home flocks (Oct 4, 2022)
- Breeding purebred poultry (Sep 6, 2022)
- Basics of poultry genetics (Aug 2, 2022)
- Best Management Practices for preparing eggs for sale when you have flocks of less than 3000 hens (Mar 1, 2022)
- Pasture grazing with multiple species, including poultry (Feb 1, 2022)
- Poultry welfare for small and backyard flocks (Jan 4, 2022)
- Composting backyard poultry manure (Nov 2, 2021)
- Preparing backyard poultry flocks for winter (Sep 7, 2021)
- Raising guinea fowl (Oct 5, 2021)
- Are heavy metals a concern for backyard and free-range poultry flocks? (Mar 2, 2021)
- Managing egg-laying hens in small and backyard flocks (July 15, 2020)
- Raising quail for meat production or release (May 4, 2021)
- Raising ducks for meat production (July 6, 2021)
- Raising Coturnix Quail for egg production (Apr 6, 2021)
- Raising ducks for egg production (Feb 2, 2021)
- Everything about geese for the beginner (Mar 2, 2016)
- Managing a multi-species poultry flock (Jan 5, 2021)
- Managing predators with a small and backyard poultry flock (Aug 4, 2020)
- Operating a small-scale poultry hatchery (Jul 7, 2016)
- Brooding small flocks of chicks for the backyard flock (May 1, 2019)
- Raising pullet chicks for egg production (April 14, 2020)
- Managing egg-laying flocks (Mar 11, 2015)
- Managing a backyard chicken flock (May 15, 2019)
- Raising exhibition chickens (Sept 1, 2020)
- Raising ducks for egg production (Sep 15, 2016)
- Raising your own meat chickens (Oct 6, 2020)
- Raising chickens for meat production (Jan 6, 2016)
- Raising ducks for meat production (Feb 3, 2016)
- Turkey care and management (Nov 2, 2015)
- Raising guinea fowl (Oct 6, 2015)
- Poultry behavior and how to ‘read’ a flock (Jun 5, 2018)
- Setting culling standards for small and backyard flocks (Dec 13, 2016)
- Slaughter and processing of poultry (June 16, 2020)
- Meat quality issues with small and backyard flocks (Aug 31, 2015)
- Animal welfare considerations for small and backyard flocks (Mar 30, 2017)
- Poultry integrated management with flies, birds and rodents (Jan 9, 2018)
- Choosing and using disinfectants with your small and backyard poultry flock (Oct 5, 2017)
- Common money wasters with poultry: Ways to reduce costs (Aug 10, 2016)
- Predator control for small and backyard poultry flocks (Feb 7, 2017)
- Poultry production over the decades (May 2, 2018)
- Manure sampling considerations in different animal production systems (Nov 16, 2018)
HOUSING
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- Sanitizing in a poultry house (Aug 1, 2023)
- Re-purposing existing structures for poultry production (Apr 5, 2022)
- Preparing backyard poultry flocks for winter (Sep 7, 2021)
- Are heavy metals a concern for backyard and free-range poultry flocks? (Mar 2, 2021)
- Hosting a coop tour (Jun 13, 2019)
- Poultry integrated management with flies, birds and rodents (Jan 9, 2018)
- Ventilation and insulation for backyard poultry flocks (Dec 5, 2017)
- Overview of poultry-related equipment (May 4, 2016)
- Housing for small and backyard flocks (Feb 9, 2015)
RULES AND REGULATIONS
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- Backyard poultry zoning regulations: Working with your local authorities (Oct 2, 2018)
- Poultry exemptions revisited (May 25, 2017)
- Poultry medications: Rule changes affecting small and backyard flocks (Dec 12, 2016)
YOUTH PROGRAMS
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- Hatching waterfowl eggs in a home incubator (May 4, 2023)
- Daily management of a home poultry incubator (April 4, 2023)
- Overview of chicken anatomy (Dec 6, 2022)
- Using chick embryology as a teaching tool (Aug 11, 2020)
- National 4-H Poultry Barbecue contests (May 7, 2020)
- 4-H poultry showmanship (Feb 6, 2018)
- Chick chain: Essential elements for backyard poultry flocks (Mar 30, 2017)
- Preparing poultry for show (Jul 17, 2015)
2019 Twenty-minute webinar series
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- Hosting a coop tour (June 13, 2019; 3 PM Eastern – 20 minutes)
- Preventing disease in backyard poultry flocks (May 29, 2019; 3 PM Eastern – 20 minutes)
- Managing a backyard laying flock (May 15, 2019; 3 PM Eastern – 20 minutes)
- Brooding small flocks for a backyard laying flock (May 1, 2019; 3 PM Eastern Time – 20 minutes)
- Managing manure from backyard chicken flocks (April 18, 2019; 3 PM Eastern Time – 20 minutes)
- Overview of poultry equipment for backyard chickens (April 2, 2019; 3 PM Eastern Time – 20 minutes)
- Housing requirements for backyard chickens (March 20, 2019, 3 PM Eastern Time – 20 minutes)
- What kind of chickens should you get for your backyard flock (March 6, 2019, 4 PM Eastern Time – 20 minutes)
- What to think about BEFORE getting chickens for your backyard (February 20, 2019; 3 PM Eastern Time – 20 minutes)