Backyard Poultry-Keeping is Page Farm & Home Museum Lecture Topic
Contact: Patty Henner, (207) 581- 4100, George Manlove, (207) 581-3756
ORONO — The UMaine Page Farm and Home Museum is sponsoring a brown bag lunch lecture session May 25 on backyard poultry-keeping, with speaker Bob Hawes, a poultry expert and professor emeritus of animal veterinary and aquatic sciences.
The noon lecture is part of the museum’s brown bag lunch series and is free and open to the public.
Hawes, a Hampden resident, currently keeps exhibition poultry and is a licensed poultry judge. He has been a member of the boards of directors for the Page Farm and Home Museum, the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy and the Kelmscott Rare Breeds farm.
His talk will be geared for small backyard poultry keepers and will include choosing a breed, ordering chicks, coop design, feeding methods and lighting systems. A question and answer period will follow his talk.
Hawes is a 1956 graduate of the University of Maine, where he earned a degree in poultry husbandry. He earned a Ph.D. from Penn State University in poultry breeding.
Beginning in 1962, he worked at MacDonald College at McGill University and as a commercial poultry breeder for the HyLine Poultry Breeding Farm in Johnston, Iowa. From 1978 to 1997, he was a member of the Animal and Veterinary Science Department faculty at UMaine.
For more information or directions to the Page Farm and Home Museum on the Orono campus, please call (207) 581-4100.