Poultry Science Research Guide

This guide provides an introduction to some of the resources for Poultry Science.  Below you will find a list of print, online, and Internet resources with descriptions as to the type of information each contains.  Please contact the Reference Desk on the 2^nd floor of Mitchell Memorial Library, (662) 325-7667, or Email a Librarian for further assistance with any of these resources or with any questions.

Indexes and Databases

AGRICOLA (available through ebscohost or SilverPlatter)
Available electronically.
** For remote access, you must be affiliated with Mississippi State University. **

Contains bibliographic records of materials acquired by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and cooperating institutions in the agricultural and related sciences.  NAL also provides free access to AGRICOLA.

AGRIS/CARIS

http://www.fao.org/agris/  

AGRIS is an international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology and contains references from over 240 different nations.

CAB Abstracts
Available electronically.
** For remote access, you must be affiliated with Mississippi State University. **

Covers research and development literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health and the management and conservation of natural resources.

MEDLINE Advanced

Available electronically.
** For remote access, you must be affiliated with Mississippi State University. **

Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE contains citations to articles dealing not only with health, but animal health and other medically related topics.

Reference Books

Herenda, Drago Carl.  Poultry Diseases and Meat Hygiene: A Color Atlas.  Ames: Iowa State, 1996.

Ref SF995 .H44 1996 

This atlas contains over 405 photographs to help identify and diagnose pathological problems and evaluate the suitability of poultry carcasses.

Roberts, Victoria.  British Poultry Standards : Complete Specifications and Judging Points of all Standardized Breeds and Varieties of Poultry as Compiled by the Specialist Breed Clubs and Recognized by the Poultry Club of Great Britain.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell Science, 1997.

Ref SF485 .B75 1997 

Filled with over 200 color photos, British Poultry Standards, contains complete specifications together with judging points for all the standardised breeds and varieties

Web Resources

MSU Library's Poultry Science Web Resources

http://library.msstate.edu/content/templates/?a=1054

MSU Department of Poultry Science

http://www.msstate.edu/dept/poultry/

NetVet, Birds

http://netvet.wustl.edu/birds.htm  

A collection of links to other resources, this page covers information for the scientist and for those with birds as pets. 

Poultry Breeds

http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/poultry/  

Created and maintained by the Department of Animal Science at Oklahoma State University, this site provides basic information and photos about a variety of different kinds of Poultry.  While most of the information is related to chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys and other types of poultry are included in this site.

Poultry Science Virtual Library

http://posc.tamu.edu/library/dother.html  

This resource has links to a variety of sites covering all aspects of poultry science.

American Association of Avian Pathologists

http://www.aaap.info/

American Egg Board

http://www.aeb.org/

American Poultry Association

http://www.ampltya.com/

International HACCP Alliance

http://haccpalliance.org/

Poultry Science Association

http://www.poultryscience.org/

U.S. Poultry & Egg Association

http://www.poultryegg.org/

World's Poultry Science Association

http://www.wpsa.com/wpsa2/ 

 

ChickMaP

http://www.projects.roslin.ac.uk/chickmap/  

One of the many international sites working on genome research, this site is housed at Roslin Institute in Scotland. 

UD Chick EST

http://www.chickest.udel.edu/    

Created by the University of Delaware this site contains over 40,000 searchable EST sequences from the Chicken cDNA database.

US Poultry Genome Project 

http://poultry.mph.msu.edu/  

Part of the USDA-CSREES National Animal Genome Research Program, this site is hosted by Michigan State University.  The site contains a number of different resources related to genome research including extensive bibliographies. 

Mississippi State Extension Service

http://msucares.com/poultry/index.html  

This page contains a listing of all MSU Extension Service publications covering the area of poultry.

National Agricultural Statistics Service: Poultry

http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/reports/nassr/poultry/poultryrr.html  

Combined on this page are a variety of USDA statistics covering such topics as egg production, poultry slaughter, and a variety of others including data about turkeys.  Most reports date back to 1995.

Mississippi Agricultural Statistics Service

http://www.nass.usda.gov/ms/  

Find recent and historical data concerning Mississippi Agriculture including the Mississippi Weekly Broiler Report.   

 

US Poultry Charts

http://www.usda.gov/nass/aggraphs/poultry.htm  

Created by USDA, this charts are visual representations of the data collected by the federal agency on a number of topic related to poultry.

 

Originally created by Sara Morris, created 04/29/04.

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