Whether your flocks provides for your family or as a 4-H Project, this “cheep” online course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and resources necessary to take flight!
The Backyard Poultry Certification Course is self-paced and expected to take 2-3 hours. Modules include:
- Getting Started
- Brooding, Basic Husbandry, and Nutrition
- Housing
- Egg Production
- Maximizing Health
- Biosecurity
After completing this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify rules and regulations relevant to raising backyard poultry
- Source healthy birds to raise in their backyard
- Apply concepts of basic husbandry, nutrition and housing of poultry
- Explain how eggs are produced
- Practice safe handling of birds and eggs
- Recognize common health-related abnormalities
- Describe the roles of veterinary care and biosecurity in poultry
To learn more check out – go.osu.edu/chicken or email Tim McDermott at mcdermott.15@osu.edu