ASCI Students Test Paprika and Marigold Supplements in Laying Hens

Three chickens from Dr. Greenwood's teaching lab near a feeder in a barn.

UVM Associate Professor Sabrina Greenwood holds a laying hen that is part of a feed supplement research study.
Sabrina Greenwood, PhD, holding a laying hen.

We have chickens at the Paul R. Miller Research and Education Center! As a part of Animal and Veterinary Sciences Associate Professor Sabrina Greenwood’s teaching lab, students in ASCI 242 (Advanced Animal Nutrition) are helping to care for laying hens, and are adding paprika and marigold to their diets to see the impact of these common plant-based supplements on egg yolk color.

What do you think will happen?

Students in Dr. Greenwoods animal science class working with laying hens.