SC NPIP Class and Backyard Poultry Workshops

1. SC NPIP Breeder Flock Certification & NPIP Tester's Class

2. Getting Started with Chickens (TBA)

• This workshop provides management information on raising backyard chickens for egg or meat production
• Getting started with a backyard flock
• Selecting quality birds for egg and meat production
• Permanent and mobile housing
• Feeding
• Predator control
• Biosecurity basics to prevent disease

3. Flock Health (TBA)  

• This workshop provides a general overview of common diseases of poultry and how to protect your flock with biosecurity practices
• Anatomy, physiology and reproduction basics
• Overview of common diseases and parasites of poultry
• Biosecurity basic to prevent disease
• Demonstration of a necropsy

4. Eggs and Incubation (TBA)  

• Basics of setting up an incubator
• Incubation process
• Brooder set up and management
• Egg handling
• Egg safety and egg sales
• Incubator set up demonstration