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Ecological Paradigm

  Facilities: Poultry Center

722 West Lane Avenue
Columbus OH 43210
614-688-3238


The poultry center serves teaching, research, and extension activities. To support these activities, the poultry building can house chickens in battery brooder pens, cages, or floor pens. Other parts of the building include a teaching laboratory, equipment to mix feed, a room for incubation, and a student apartment.

Teaching is supported in several ways. Activities that use poultry or poultry products can be completed by students in the teaching laboratory. Animals and products can also be transported to other classes on campus. Animal housing is available for classes with management projects that use meat or egg type chickens.

The poultry center supports research of faculty members on campus and at other universities. Poultry are available as animals for research, generally experiments planned by faculty on campus. Experiments designed by graduate and undergraduate students may also be completed with poultry at the center. Fertile eggs produced at the center meet the research needs on campus and at other universities.

Extension activities also use poultry center resources. Fertile eggs and small incubators are available for chick hatches in area schools. Resources needed for 4-H and FFA poultry activities are often supplied by the poultry center.