Members of the UC Davis pastured poultry research farm join the podcast to tell us about their project. Mike is joined by Dr. Richard Blatchford and Carine Elkhoraibi. The project describes itself as “a new education, research and innovation hub for pastured poultry producers (layers and broilers), master gardeners, backyard flock keepers, academia, students, food buyers, food safety and animal welfare auditors.”

In this episode, the UC Davis teams introduces the project and its goals. At the time of the recording, the farm’s first batch of 150 layers were approaching laying age. We talked about brooding, egg mobile design, predators, research, Avian Influenza, Proposition 2 and more.

Resources

• Learn more about the UC Davis pastured poultry  project.
• Plans for an Egg Mobile and portable shade structure are available in the Innovations at the Farm PDF.