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Switchgrass as Bedding for Small Flocks

GNE16-127 (project overview)
Project Type: Graduate Student
Funds awarded in 2016: $14,258.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2017
Grant Recipient: Penn State University
Region: Northeast
State: Pennsylvania
Graduate Student:
Amy Barkley
Email
Faculty Advisor:
Dr. Paul Patterson
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Penn State University
Faculty Advisors:
Dr. Michael Hulet
Email
Penn State University
Dr. Jude Liu
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Penn State University
Description:
This presentation was given at the Delaware County 4-H Poultry Club meeting on June 13th, 2017 and was tailored to an audience of 4-H members (aged 8-18) as well as their parents and the club leaders. The presentation goes through who I am and where I come from at first, then moves into characteristics of the bedding types that are studied at Penn State. Finally, it gets into the results of the switchgrass pen trial conducted at Penn State's Poultry Education and Research Center (Project 1), then finally moves into results from the SARE Grant switchgrass project (Project 2). There is also discussion on how switchgrass can be best processed for use in small flock applications such as the flock at the Delaware County 4-H site.
Type:
Conference/Presentation Material
File:
Download file (PDF)
Author:
Amy Barkley, Penn State University
Target audiences:
Educators; Consumers
Ordering info:
Cost: $0.00
This product is associated with the project "Renewable alternative bedding for commercial broiler chicken production"
Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the U.S. Department of Agriculture or SARE.

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