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History of the humble chicken

The Australorp

Putting the 'feather' in feathery friends

The baby chick-Nature's miracle child

Chicks or chocolate-it's an important choice

Ducks! The other white meat

Sexing chicks

Using small incubators

The Pigeon- more than a park scavenger

Bantams- mighty midgets of the poultry world

Housing pigeons

A Christmas treat for true poultry lovers

Feeding pigeons

Choices, choices, choices

Why DO people breed exhibition birds?

Chook diseases

"I never said I was an angel"

Creepy crawly parasites- those undesirable hitch-hikers!


The Links

The Links

Chickens
Chicken websites

The Chook Shed
A comprehensive Australian site on pure breed chickens. Loads of information, pictures and links. Also has an advice message board.

Department of Animal Science - OSU Poultry Breeds
One of the best sites on poultry breeds.

Prints from Lewis Wright's Book of Poultry
The Ludlow paintings from the later editions of The Book of Poultry, by Lewis Wright.

Robert Blosl's Rhode Island Red Page
A site for devotees of the classic American utility breed, the Rhode Island Red.

The FeatherSite
An on-line zoological garden of domestic poultry. Includes photos, video and information about various breeds of fowl, such as chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, peafowl, pigeons, and turkeys. Various wildfowl are also included.

University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension
Comprehensive range of articles on many aspects of poultry raising.

ChickScope
Designed as a resource for students and teacher, this site has lots of interesting things to see and do. Shows how to make a simple incubator, discusses breeds and lots of other goodies.

McMurray Hatchery
Commercial website. Order chicks, ducklings etc online, large range of books and accessories. The site has many colour pictures of different breeds of poultry.

Poultry & Party Information Exchange
A busy interactive site with a busy message board and lots of categorised links to all things poultry.

Red Square - Rhode Island Red Resource Page
A site devoted to that great American breed. It has some lovely old pictures and interesting articles.

The Poultry Club of Great Britain
The official online presence of this prestigious organisation.

American Dutch Bantam Society
The homepage of the society. It contains some nice pictures and articles on this particular breed of bantam.

American Poultry Association
The official online presence of the APA.

Crazy Chef Mar's Food, Garden and Chicken Lair
A fun mish mash of all things rural. Searches, links, chickens, gardening... you name it, it's here.

Modern Game Club of UK
The home of the Modern Game Club of UK. Some nice paintings of these leggy chickens.

Shiver Me Chickens!
A somewhat whimsical view of chickens...

Virginia Cooperative Extension
A collection of poultry resources.

Pictures by Diane Jacky
Paintings by Diane Jacky of various types of waterfowl. Definitely worth a look!


Pigeons
Pigeon websites

Pigeons on Suite101
Suite101 has its own dedicated Pigeon section edited by Tom Morgan. As such I won't add any more pigeon things here... check out Tom's pages.

The Pigeon Cote
Possibly the oldest and best pigeon site on the web. Lots of information, pictures and links.

The Fantail Club of New South Wales
The official online presence of this Australian breed club.

Daniel's Pigeon Page
Website of a young Englishman on pigeons. Loads slowly, but if you have the time (and bandwidth) it is worth the wait.

National Pigeon Association
The official online presence of this American pigeon association.


Waterfowl
Waterfowl websites

The Duck Pond
An Australian site devoted to keeping domestic ducks.

Justin's Duck Page
A nifty, tidy little site on all things "ducky"! With duck sites hard to find, this one is worth a look.

Metzer Farms Duck and Goose Hatchery
A commercial waterfowl hatchery website with lots of breed pictures, information and waterfowl husbandry tips.

Quackers Homepage
Homepage of a committed duck lover with lots of useful information for other duck lovers.

Waterfowl World
This page is dedicated to Domestic Waterfowl, mainly about ducks.