Agriculture and Natural Resources

Backyard Poultry Online Course

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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

Ohio Beef Youth Council Saturday February 1, 2025

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The Ohio Cattlemen’s Association Annual Meeting and Awards Banquet is scheduled for February 1 at the Hilton Polaris in Columbus. This event will launch the new Ohio Beef Youth Council (OBYC.) The council is a youth education initiative created to serve the families and youth of Ohio’s beef industry and invest in the next generation of industry leaders. Funded by Beef Checkoff and OCA, this initiative will equip youth with the tools to become effective industry leaders and inspire them to continue their engagement in the beef industry.

Registration will open at 9am and the program begins at 10am. The council and its programs are open to all youth between the ages of 8 and 21 years old. No cost is involved to participate in the council, although educational contests and events may have registration fees.

FMI – https://www.ohiocattle.org/events-programs/annual-meeting-awards-banquet

Beef Quality Assurance Certification & Recertification

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Join us for the Greene County Cattlemen’s Association meeting (updates and voting), followed by Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) certification/recertification (it fulfills 4-H quality assurance requirements).

The goal of Beef Quality Assurance is to assure consumers that all cattle shipped from a beef production unit are healthy, wholesome, and safe; their management has met FDA, USDA; and EPA standards; they meet quality requirements throughout the production system; and are produced using animal well-being, worker safety, and environmentally-sound production practices.

Pre-registration is required:  CLICK HERE