Agrilife Extension Resources
We have a variety of resources, both in-person and online, available for backyard and commercial poultry producers. The topics range from chicken egg and meat production to breed selection and biosecurity to curing and smoking farm-raised chickens, turkeys and quail.
Related Departments: Poultry Science, Animal Science
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This manual aids in teaching beginners and experienced individuals how to properly evaluate live birds, ready-to-cook poultry, shell eggs, and processed poultry. It also includes information related to poultry production, management, and science and cooperating with others in solving poultry industry problems.
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This book explains how to produce high-quality flight quail that perform like wild bobwhite quail in the field.
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This publication helps families interested in maintaining a small laying flock to produce eggs for home consumption. It covers housing, feeding and management of pullets and laying hens. (3 pages)
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Owning backyard chickens and other poultry can be a rewarding hobby, but it does come with risks, specifically from illnesses caused by a Salmonella infection. This publication contains FAQs about disease prevention while raising poultry at home. (3 Pages.)
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This publication aims to help poultry producers protect Texas waterways from contamination associated with livestock production and which may pose a health risk to Texas citizens. It includes best management practices for keeping bacteria, sediment, nutrients, and pesticide runoff out of waterways as well as preventing the loss of water and topsoil. (80 pages)
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Research has found that farmers and ranchers who use poultry litter to fertilize fields can reduce the harm to local water supplies if they use appropriate management strategies. This publication explains the study's findings on the best combination of litter and commercially available nitrogen fertilizer for corn and wheat. (4 pages)
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This publication is a great guide for people who are wanting to establish a birding-related business.
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This discusses information to serve as an aid in teaching both beginning and experienced egg graders the correct interpretation and application of US standards, grades, and weight classes for shell eggs.
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The Teacher Toolkit for the Poultry Evaluation is a bundle designed to provide a Poultry Evaluation CDE team with the curriculum resources they need to be successful.
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This manual includes full-color photos. Includes guidelines for uniform application of the U.S. Department of Agriculture classes, standards, and grades of poultry.