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We had two undergraduate students present their research under the Chick-EES project at the University of Georgia’s Undergraduate CURO Symposium in April! Phoebe Boudreaux (left) presented on her work detecting Salmonella in chicken feces and linking it to land cover, and Pranavi Kuravi (right) presented her work identifying arthropods in chicken pasture and examining how…
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UGA’s College of Agriculture has published a follow-up story and call to action for our Chick-EES project! We have officially launched our Chicken Dinner testing service for growers and are requesting any pastured chicken producers to take our survey and see if they qualify to participate in our Chicken Dinner program.
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Kariana Colon, a UGA undergraduate student, presented her work on the Chick-EES project at UGA’s annual CURO Undergraduate Research Symposium this April. Kariana was given a CURO research award for her work this year identifying insects from farms and testing for associations between bacterial prevalence in chicken feces and weather variables. She is graduating this…
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UGA’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CAES) published a story on the Chick-EES project on their Cultivate website in October. Maria M. Lameiras accompanied graduate students Sofia Varriano and Leniha Lagarde to Foster Brady, a collaborating farm, to interview team members and farm owner Clay Brady. Read the full story here.
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