- 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
SC NPIP Class and Backyard Poultry Workshops
1. SC NPIP Breeder Flock Certification & NPIP Tester's Class
2. Getting Started with Chickens (TBA)
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