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Know Your Madisonian: Ron Kean is the go-to guy for backyard chicken questions

One of the nation?s few extension poultry specialists for small flocks, Kean also writes the Answer Man column for Backyard Poultry magazine. Most of the problems he deals with have to do with chickens who are too fat, he says. Along with his work for the UW Extension, Kean has spent nearly two decades on the academic staff at UW-Madison, where he teaches poultry courses in breeder flock and hatchery management, plus a companion animal biology class for non-biology majors.