Numbered Publications: ASC
ASC-229: Marketing Regulations Affecting Small-scale Egg Producers in Kentucky
Jacquie Jacob, Tony Pescatore | Jan. 12, 2018 (New)
It is important that you comply with all the laws and regulations with regards to the marketing of eggs. Eggs are capable of carrying bacteria such as Salmonella enteritidis. As a result, eggs are considered a hazardous food and their sale is regulated. With regard to small-scale producers, if you sell more than 60 dozen eggs in any one week, you will require an egg handler's license. You will also need an egg handler's license if you sell to someone who sells eggs to someone else. This would include grocery stores, restaurants, or wholesalers. The same will hold true if you sell to a bakery, confectionary or ice-cream manufacturer.
ASC-231: Breed Selection for a Small-scale Egg Production Enterprise
Jacquie Jacob, Tony Pescatore | Jan. 12, 2018 (New)
Once you have decided you are going to go into egg production, you need to determine what breed of chicken will best suit your needs. A variety of different commercial breeds are available for use in small-scale commercial egg production operations. Most lay a brown-shelled egg, which is typically preferred by the people purchasing eggs produced in alterative production systems. Most of these commercial chickens are hybrids selected specifically for these systems.
ASC-206: Common External Parasites of Poultry
Jacquie Jacob, Tony Pescatore | Sep. 8, 2017 (Minor Revision)
Periodic examination of your flock is recommended so that infestations can be detected early and a larger flock outbreak contained. It is especially important to detect infestations early in food-producing poultry because there are restrictions on the treatments available.
ASC-228: Body Condition Scoring Ewes
Debra Aaron, Don Ely | Aug. 25, 2017 (New)
Body condition scoring is a system of classifying breeding ewes on the basis of differences in body fat. While it is subjective, with practice it can be accurate enough to indicate the nutritional status of individual ewes as well as the entire flock. Thus, it allows the shepherd to identify, record, and adjust the feed intake of ewes determined to be thin, in average flesh, or fat. In the long run, this can save money for producers and/or prevent problems attributable to ewe condition.
ASC-226: Help! My Horse Roars! What Is Laryngeal Hemiplegia?
Fernanda Camargo | Oct. 10, 2016 (New)
Various ailments can affect the different parts of the larynx of horses. Diseases of the larynx can produce airway obstruction and sometimes dysphagia. Obstructive diseases, such as laryngeal hemiplegia, often produce an abnormal respiratory noise and, most important, they limit airflow, which leads to early fatigue and poor exercise performance.
ASC-227: Foodborne Illness: Risks and Prevention
Melissa Newman, Gregg Rentfrow, Paul Vijayakumar | Sep. 27, 2016 (New)
In recent memory, there has been a considerable increase in food recalls and foodborne illness outbreaks. To ensure food safety, everyone involved in the food production chain needs to understand the different factors that could contaminate food and lead to foodborne illness.
ASC-225: Managing Precision Dairy Farming Technologies
Jeffrey Bewley, Lauren Mayo, Amanda Stone, Nicky Tsai, Barbara Wadsworth | Sep. 22, 2015 (New)
Precision dairy farming is the use of technologies to measure physiological, behavioral, and production indicators of individual animals to improve management strategies and farm performance.
ASC-221: Keeping and Using Flock Performance Records
Debra Aaron | Dec. 17, 2014 (New)
Performance records serve as the cornerstone of any good livestock management program. Unfortunately, the task of collecting, maintaining and using performance records is the one area of livestock production in general that gets the least attention. This fact sheet provides ten reasons why all sheep producers need to keep performance records on their flocks. Then, some ways of maintaining and using those records are discussed.
ASC-220: Basic Sheep Genetics
Debra Aaron | Dec. 16, 2014 (New)
Genetics is the science of heredity. It seeks to explain differences and similarities exhibited by related individuals. The application of genetics to livestock improvement is known as animal breeding. The objective of this fact sheet is to provide a refresher course on basic genetics and to show how knowledge of genetics can be used to improve sheep production.
ASC-223: Inbreeding in Sheep
Debra Aaron | Dec. 16, 2014 (New)
Inbreeding is broadly defined as the mating of individuals that are related. Strictly speaking, however, all animals within a breed are related. So, in a sense, every purebred sheep producer practices some degree of inbreeding. In most cases this relationship is very slight. Therefore, inbreeding is more practically defined as the mating of individuals more closely related than the average of the breed. This practice includes mating brother to sister, sire to daughter and son to dam.
