Delmarva Chicken Association is the 1,600-member trade association working for the common good of the meat chicken industry in Delaware, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Our mission: To be the Delmarva chicken industry's voice as the premier membership association focusing on advocacy, education and member relations.
Our vision: To be the most-respected chicken organization in the United States.
Farm Videos
Ever wonder what's happening inside chicken houses? Curious about how farmers keep their chickens healthy? Then check out these videos from DCA and other groups.
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Vegetative Environmental Buffers
Planting trees around chicken houses has both air quality and water quality benefits. Properly designed buffers with farm specific plants, either trees or grasses, help capture air emissions from chicken houses and absorb nutrients. DCA is leading the way in helping farmers get grants for buffers and giving technical assistance in installing them.
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Recipes
We know our way around a kitchen here at DCA, and over the years, we've collected some great-tasting recipes that make chicken a focus.
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Membership
If your business is linked even in part to the chicken industry, please consider becoming a member of DCA. We work tirelessly on behalf of the entire industry. Help us ensure that an industry you count on will continue to thrive.
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Delmarva's Chicken Community: 567 Million Chickens, $4.2 Billion in Value
- James Fisher
- May 16, 2022
- DCA
The Delmarva chicken community raised 567 million chickens, produced 4.2 billion pounds of shelf- and table-ready chicken and generated a record $4.2 billion in wholesale value in 2021. These insights into the chicken industry's important role in Delmarva's economy... Read More
Delmarva's Chicken Community On Alert for Avian Influenza
- James Fisher
- March 09, 2022
- DCA
Maryland and Delaware today jointly announced the detect... Read More
FEATURED VIDEOS
Buffer Bites: VEB Demo Days
- DCA hosted chicken growers on farms in Maryland and Delaware, partnering with Nanticoke Watershed Alliance to showcase farms that have planted and nurtured vegetative environmental buffers in novel places to improve air quality, efficiency and appearance. Lisa Wool talks about how these practices help farmers and their neighbors. - Posted: June, 16, 2021
Buffer Bites: Don't weed-whack your buffers!
- Vegetative environmental buffers can be harmed by too-zealous weed trimming. Here, DCA's Jim Passwaters walks you through weed-control options on a chicken farm with buffers. - Posted: February, 19, 2020
Buffer Bites: Edible berries
- You might be surprised to learn some families raising chickens on Delmarva are planting edible berries, like black chokeberries and blackberry bushes, on their farms as living buffers - making the farms less obvious to neighbors, muffling sound, filtering dust and odor, and improving water quality. Our vegetative environmental buffers expert, Jim Passwaters, talks about two berry plants that work well on chicken farms in this edition of 'Buffer Bites.' - Posted: February, 19, 2020