Here's a stepping off place into the online world of poultry. Enjoy!

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General Poultry Communication Sites

The Coop. This page includes a list of other fanciers, a Wanted section, and links of interest. It keeps getting better. How about a Virtual Poultry Show?

Tim's Poultry Connection page has lots of good links and poultry information, plus a bulletin board.

Want to talk to other folks who are interested in poultry?

To join the DOM_BIRD list send a blank e-mail to: dom_bird-subscribe@egroups.com

To join the Rare Poultry Breeds list, send a blank e-mail to RarePoultryBreeds-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To join the Rare Poultry Breeders2 list, send a blank e-mail to RarePoultryBreeders2-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To join the Rare Heritage Turkey list, send a blank e-mail to RareHeritageTurkey-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Here's the Link for the Rare_Chickens list at Yahoo.

Here's where to go if you want to Meet Up with other keepers of pet chickens.

The Happy Hen House has a forum on keeping chickens, aimed at those with yard flocks or pets, not showing.

If you have a pet chicken living in the house, you may want to join the House Chickens list. To do so, send a blank e-mail to housechickens-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

If you're interested in particular breeds, go check out the groups at yahoo.com -- they have lists for many breeds.

Another list where they talk about poultry is called just that: poultry. To subscribe to poultry, send an empty message to poultry-subscribe@makelist.com

I also hang out on the poultry boards on America Online. (Well, I used to. The aol browser was so annoying that once I started using Netscape I hardly ever go there anymore.) If you have that access use keyword Pet Care. There are Poultry, Game Bird, and Ratite folders in the Farm Animals folder.

The Poultry Connection runs an online auction of birds, eggs and related things at eggbid.com.

Hey, over there across the pond -- here's Eggschange: The UK's online poultry and smallholding auction site.

And here's the Egg Swapper's Board, if you're interested in trading eggs with someone at a distance.

How about a mailing list on hatching techniques?

The TrueBantam Message Board is dedicated to those breeds, such as Sebrights and Japanese, that only exist as bantams.

You can now join a mailing list on Pastured Poultry.

For young fanciers, here are the message boards for Poultry Youth of America. And they also have an auction.

And here's the APA ABA Youth Program website.

I also found a list of Livestock Mailing Lists enjoyed by the owners of Livestock Guardian Dogs.

There's now a poultry newsgroup at sci.agriculture.poultry.

Or you can stop by Nat George's Universal Poultry Chat System.

The Hen House is another online gathering place for those entranced with fowl.

As is FowlAround, which also has a Breeders List.

And, of course, you can always contact me at FeatherSite -- questions and comments. I love to chat about birds (and other critters).

Backyard & Fancy Poultry Sites

Andy Vardy's great pages on exhibiting poultry and choosing a breed.

The Palm Beach County Poultry Fanciers Association page has a fair number of breed photos and info on management of small flocks.

This is the APA-ABA Poultry Youth Club site.

This is The Poultry Connection's Event Calendar.

For New Englanders etc., here's Northeast Poultry Shows & Swaps Calendar

Poultrypages has a listing of shows and events in the UK.

And for those interested in eggs, here's the UK Egg Standard.

Here are tips on showing eggs from Rupert Stephenson

Here are the Ohio National's pages on showing in Bantam, Large Fowl and Waterfowl classes.

Showpoultry.com has lots of basic showing info.

The Poultry Club of Great Britain has a page on shows and showing.

Backyard Poultry is dedicated to promoting and preserving backyard poultry keeping throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Bellerive Poultry has lots of links for the Australian fancier.

Here's Briarpatch Farm's FAQ on Poultry Shows.

This is Shebird's Home Page on exhibiting poultry.

Here's Mario Griekspoor's page (in Dutch) which seems to be on showing chickens.

ZooEasy - poultry breeding software for the PC.

Bowie FFA supports a page of care and showmanship links for youths.

For those who ship birds, and need to be aware of regulations, here's the link to Bird Shippers of America.

Here's The Easy Chicken's page on shipping fowl and eggs.

And this is eggbid.com's page on egg packing and shipping.

Another page on packing eggs for shipping.

Ray's Place has a listing of breeders and also a section on the new breeds he's working on developing.

Jubilee Acres also maintains a breeders list.

Here's Brian's page, Boisfort Exhibition Poultry, with tips on showing and incubation.

One of Regan's Cochin bantams seems to have lost a contact lens. Don't ask me, I didn't produce his page!

Here's Mike's Chicken Page, which concentrates on his favorites: the Wyandotte bantams.

Check out Cheryl's drawing of her Black Cochin bantam, Roaster the Rooster.

In addition to stuff about his chickens, Fred Cumming's Chook Page has a Windows-only Chicken Screen Saver.

Why the best-looking chicks don't go home with you, Smithsonian Magazine's January 1997 article on purebred poultry. Some nice photos of Cochins and Polish.

Here's Eric Sander's site. The photographer for the above Smithsonian article. This is where you find out how that came about. He's also got a neat desktop chicken calender that you can get there.

Here's Jennifer's 4H Chicken Page.

This is ConspiringChickens.com.

At Fowl Play you'll find pictures of Shamos, Light Sussex, Marans, Silkies, Vorwerks and Indian Games as well as Welsummers and Barnevelders. If you're into nature and conservation, there's also a nice link page on Endangered Species.

Here's Fowlmania's home page, home of Dana, the turkey kisser!

Visit The Bantam Roost to see Dick and Terry's Belgian Bearded d'Uccles.

Here's a page extolling Rob Mongold's passion for Speckled Sussex.

Wanna guess at Little Turken's passion?

For various interesting homemade poultry equipment, drop by Old Jim's Fowl Page.

Cluck Cluck's page: Paying Homage to the Chicken.

Check out Wadd's Creek Poultry Links--they raise guineas and various chickens in North Carolina.

Tony Buck's Poultry Page includes a list of British poultry clubs.

Visit Birdsong Ranch and meet Clare's chickens and "Wonder," the dwarf emu.

Drop by Claude McAllister's Fowl Pages and find lots of good stuff, including links to Waterfowl Clubs and the Seven Oaks Game Farm catalog, where Claude sells poultry supplies and his great Call Ducks. He also has a few real Araucanas, not those Easter Egg mutts.

And here's Chris Pavlick's Chicken Page with his pet fowl. Warning - this page loads very slowly.

Or you could stop by and see 12-year-old Joe Ribas's Poultry Page.

Here's Cari's Chicken Picture Page, starring her Marans.

Or stop by Greg's Chook Shed for a look at some Aussie fowl.

Beth and Laura Adams specialize in showing standard Australorps and Cochins.

Here's David's page, the Maledy Poultry Farm.

My Chickens! shows Diane's Polish, Araucana, Orpington and Production Red chicks from one to eight weeks of age.

Here's Stacey's Stonegate Meadows, with hatching charts and a poultry related auction.

You'll find all sorts of poultry info at BuffaloGal's A Little Chicken Scratch from the Online Barn.

Visit George's Home Page to see first and second generation Show Girls (and what are those, you ask?).

There's some general information on Gazza's Poultry Site, and he talks about Pekins (Cochin bantams), his favorites.

OZZIE Fanciers is a list of Australian poultry fanciers.

Here's Mike's Home Page with the story of how he got his first rooster.

In the Chicken Gallery you can see pictures of Poovy's favorite gamefowl and mixed breeds.

And here you can see Kelly & Doug's chickens at Red Road Farm.

Visit Art and Judy at "Da Barn" to see their d'Uccles, OEG, and waterfowl.

What I do in 4-H is Chris's page on keeping his ducks.

Here's Mindy's page with pictures of her ducks and geese.

Laurence's Gamebird, Waterfowl and Poultry Place has lots of pictures.

Exotica Farms has pictures of their ducks and Coturnix quail chicks.

Peril-L's experiences with his Runner Duck Fleet.

Here are Wayne's geese at Turkey Heaven Farm.

Drop by and visit Mimi's Chicken Project.

Or stop over at Eric and Earnesto's and see their pet chickens.

Bobbie's Backyard Poultry page includes info on dealing with scaly leg mites, worms, and prolapse.

Drop by and meet Brandon's chicks.

Here's Egghead's Poultry and Party Info. Exchange.

Jennifer and her chickens have information on showing, management and disease.

And here's Chris's page, with pictures of his/her ducks, geese and chickens.

Or stop by Andrew's Chicken Site.

And here are Garm's Backyard Chickens.

"Chickens on the Farm" is Justamere Paint Farm's page celebrating their fowl.

Here's Chicksville, a New Zealand chook lover's page.

If you also like goldfish and koi, try stopping by Jeff's Pond and Poultry Page.

Here's Pocket Flocks, where Edith breeds Cochins, Polish and Sebrights.

Scott has lots of pictures up of his new chicks. He also has a nice page of Links to Fowl Places.

Drop by Sine Nomine Farm to see Mike Warren's chickens and the odd parrot.

Visit Mother Mastiff's chickens at Colorsplash Farm.

At 3C Acres they raise various rare breeds, including Unimproved Bronze turkeys, White Wyandottes and Dominiques.

Here's Katie's page on 4H and raising and showing chickens.

The chicklist is Mark's hatchery list, which includes various private breeders.

Mike Schmer's Chicken World -- Mike is 13 and shows OEG bantams.

Over at Starshire Farm they keep geese and peafowl.

Visit Tank Farm's various fowl.

Here's L. C.'s rooster "Gypsy Rose Lee."

Stop by Paul and Nancy's apartment and meet Tilly the Mille Fleur.

Meet the various fowl at Marie's Farm.

Here's Wolf's chicken coop.

Visit some pet hens at Backyard Chickens.

At Nubin's Chicken Coop you can see his birds, past and present.

Don't be chicken to have chickens! See Élan May's birds. She also has a nice page of beginner's info.

The Hen Pen has Marans and Black Rocks.

Poovy's Chicken Gallery has pictures of Games and mixed breeds.

Brian & Tracey's Page has peafowl and other poultry.

Here's the Bantam Page at Rock Haven Farm.

Meet the personable flock at Chicksville.

Meet Lisa's various fowl at Brigadoon Farm.

The Hen House has a chat room and some info on various breeds.

Meet Alan's various poultry (and some sheep) at Touchstone Farm.

Here's Brian's Strange Pet and Poultry Page.

Squaw Creek Farm's page shows their poultry, exotic ducks, pheasants and peafowl.

Crack and Peep Poultry raises all sorts of chickens.

See Michele's new chicks at Blessing Farm

Visit Catalpa Grove Farm and see the various fowl they raise.

Hentales is Ket's diary of the development of her flock.

Here you can look at pictures of Jaime's chickens.

Meet the bantams at Aurora Parakeets, Poultry & Doves.

Check out the flock at Four S Bar Ranch!

Stop by henrun and see their Buff Orpingtons, Scots Greys and Marsh Daisies.

Fowl Play Farm specializes in rare breeds of chickens.

Montana's Chickens Are Us page.

This is Jenny's flock of laying hens.

Stacy Brockett's StonegateMeadows's Poultry Pages.

Naked Chicks! -- Cathy's wild chickens in Hawaii.

Drop by Tilly's Barnyard to see her chickens, ducks, pigeons and pheasants. Birds for sale here.

At Pierce County Bantams, Joslynn has lots of OEGs, Cochins & d'Uccles.

Stop by and meet all the birds at Terry's Hen House.

An Italian student's page on various fowl (in Italian).

Remembering Roscoe - memorial to a rooster that lived for a decade in Takoma Park, MD.

Annie's Hug A Chicken page.

See the various fowl at the Von Russell Farm.

Shabazin keeps all sorts of game-type fowl and uses Livestock Guardian Dogs to protect them.

The Chicken Rescue is a UK home for battered/abandoned chickens.

See the various birds at 4S Bar Poultry.

Stop here to see Mandy's Frizzled Polish and Welsummers.

There are Jersey Giants, Sumatras, large White Cornish and various Wyandotte bantams at Briarpatch Farm.

Little House Poultry Farm has lots of fowl.

Chicken Overload is an Aussie page.

There are also some chickens at Mysti Acres Farm.

Chooks Australia - Dirk's page with info on keeping and breeding backyard chooks.

There are various fowl at Dixie Poultry Farm.

See the bantams at Diddleknot Farms.

See the various chickens at Ellson's Acre.

They raise Muscovies and various chickens at Pinnacle Organic Farm.

You'll find a bunch of bantams and an article on poultry preservation at Turkey's Delight.

Stop by 3 Peas Bird Farm if you're looking for fowl. They have chickens, pheasants and peafowl for sale.

Tank Poultry & Waterfowl, at Bilrite Farms, also has birds for sale.

The Backyard Chickens home page has coops, pictures, and lots of other stuff on chickens.

Here's Dan's Poultry Coop.

Marta's Hen Garden (sadly) only appears in Norwegian.

CornerStone Farm has a bunch of birds for sale.

Shahbazin has lots of exhibition game type birds on her site, including OEs and Shamos.

See the rare fowl of Australia at Australian Heritage Farm.

Check out the fowl at Robin's Nest.

Willow Hatchery, another backyarder's place, has Royal Palm turkeys, chickens and guineas.

This is Walt Leonard's Exotic Fowl site.

My Feathered Flock has guineas, Red-golden pheasants and d'Uccles.

See the poultry at Deb's Funny Farm.

Meet the chickens at Brambleberry Holler.

There's all sorts of poultry at Longshadow Farms.

There's lots of pictures and poultry for sale at Louderbranch Farms.

Poultry 'r us (in Oz) has a bunch of chicken breeds that they sell.

Meet the poultry at The Farm in Diggers Valley.

Benjamin's site Les Oiseaux de la Bernerie has chickens, waterfowl and peafowl, but is only in French.

See Delphine's fowl at the Chicken Chalet.

This is Mike & Anne's Poultry Page with pics of their chickens and various chicks.

See all the chickens at Jennifer's Animal Farm.

Holy Flock Farm has birds for sale, includig Lavender Turkeys, Sebastopol Geese, Barred Rocks, Guineas, Peafowl, Ringneck Doves and Silver Appleyard Ducks.

This is Robyn's Chicken Page.

Featherhead has all sorts of chickens and exotic fowl.

Foster's Poultry in the UK has over 30 breeds of bantams and large fowl.

Critter Run is a hobby farm specializing in various rare breeds.

There's lots of exotics and domestic fowl for sale at Whispering Willow Farm, including Serama Bantams.

Sunflower Ranch & Hatchery has Marans, Gray Calls, Peafowl (India Blue and Java Green) and Wishard Bronze Turkeys for sale.

Harper's Game Farm has various breeds of chickens for sale, as well as Ringneck Pheasants, Bobwhites and Chukars.

See the chickens at Jennifer's Animal Farm.

PineBerry Green is a nonprofit chicken rescue group which needs donations.

If you're in Wisconsin, you can get your free-range eggs from Happy Hens.

Aunt Gordy's Poultry has Silkies, Japanese bantams, geese and more for sale.

Kaibic's Hatchery has various rare breeds, including Marans, Welsumers, Dominiques, Exchequer Leghorns, Manx Rumpies, Frizzled Polish, Welsh Harlequin ducks, Tufted Roman geese and Lavender Guineas.

Go see the Heritage breeds at Muller Lane Farm.

See the various Gamefowl and bantams at "Pops Chickens."

Ally's Feathered Flock includes various kinds of chickens as well as Red and Yellow Golden Pheasants.

Go see all the ducks, geese and chickens at e-chickens.

There are lots of varieties of Asian Gamefowl pictured at Orchard Poultry Farm.

Thompson & Sons Rare Poultry has lots of chickens, including Saipans.

Drop by Walt Leonard's Exotic Fowl to see some nice birds.

Kyle's KC Game Bird Farm, where he has (and sells) Chukars, pheasants, turkeys and ducks.

See all the birds at Cache Valley Poultry, including their emu, Blue-laced Red Wyandottes and Blue Palm Turkeys.

Meet Albert's ducks, Birdy the Pekin and Ducky the Muscovy.

Robin's chickens have their pictures on the web at 12 Acres in Ohio.

You can find Sumatras, Gold Pencilled Hamburgs, Red Junglefowl and bantam Buff Brahmas at T's Hatchery.

Here's Red Dirt Chicken Ranch, where you can find a bunch of rare breeds.

You can find Marans, Barnevelders, Welsummers and Pekin Ducks at Kelly's Chicks.

Layers and Silkies are found at The Nester's.

NannyP's Hens: a photo history of her flock.

They keep a variety of chicken breeds at Poor Ridge Ranch.

Meet the happy chickens at Enchanted Rock.

Lots of breeds of chicken are kept by Baythorne Fowl in the UK.

Thompson & Sons Rare & Endangered Poultry has many breeds, mostly of game fowl.

At Bill's Rare Birds you can see Australian Bronze Wing Doves, Edward's Pheasant, Brown Eared Pheasant, Laysan Duck and Peafowl.

And here's a bunch of d'Uccles at Autumn House.

And here's Mike's Poultry.

There are lots of oriental fowl at Crowing Hills Farm.

You'll find many interesting breeds at the Devonshire Traditional Breed Centre.

Poultry in Motion has various chickens, including Seramas and Games, as well as Peafowl, Chukar, some ducks, some turkeys and some guineas.

There are chickens and ducks at High Down Poultry in the UK.

Here's T & B Waterfowl & Poultry.

There are Old Dutch and Silkies at Sleepy Hollow Farm.

They sell various breeds of fowl, including American Games, at Danny's Poultry Farm.

They keep various ducks and chickens at e-chickens in the UK.

There are Cochins and other chickens at Fenland Fowl.

There's a bunch of breeds at the Australian site By Hook or Chook.

There are lots of fowl available at Backroads Farm.

Cottage Rose Birds n' Blossoms has Sebastopol Geese, Muscovy Ducks and Ameraucanas.

See the free-range chickens at Unke Farms.

There's a webcam going at the CluckHut.

Another webcam, this one with inside and outside views.

There are ducks, geese and chickens at Golland Farm.

Cottage Rose Bird n' Blossoms specializes in Ameraucanas, Muscovies, Sebastopol Geese and Allen Setter Bantams.

You'll find various fowl at our-feathered-friends.

Here's Morgan's Bantam Waterfowl and Chickens.

There are Sebastapol Geese and Ameraucanas at Cottage Rose Birds n' Blossoms.

This is a Korean poultry keeper's page (also in English and Japanese).

Various fowl reside at Pathfinders Farm.

There are chickens at The Hen House!

You'll find more poultry at Lil' Bits From Heaven Ranch.

I'm not sure where to include this one, but if you live near Melbourne, Australia, you can rent a hen from Book A Chook.

Here's Adele's birds at Conspiring Chickens.

They have Dutch, Silkies, Buckeyes, Marans, Buff Orpingtons, Pilgrim Geese and Guineas at Pathfinders Farm.

There are Marans, Showgirls, Silkies and more at Lyn's AlmostAFarm.

There are Black Copper Marans, Houdans and Silkie Ducks at Freestep Farm.

See the Silkies and bantam Ducks at FlufnStuff.

Here's LA's Coop du Jour.

There are chickens and wildfowl at Giffs Farm.

Indigo Egg has a nice collection of fowl, including Araucanas, Silkies and Jersey Giants.

See the Pekins and Silkies at Dan's Pekins.

there are a bunch of Japanese poultry sites linked here.

Various domestic and wild fowl can be found at Hillview Exotic Birds.

Urban Fowl

Raising Birds in an Urban Area.

Kiwi and Sigma put up a page on Keeping Chooks in Suburbia.

And here's a Canadian page on keeping chickens in the city.

Here are Diane's urban bantams.

Here's another page on urbanchickens.

Raising Fowl And Small Animals in Urban Areas by the Virginia Cooperative Extension

This is Katy Skinner's page, The City Chicken.

Omlet | The art of keeping chickens! - in urban or suburban areas using their fantastic chicken house the eglu!

Scratch a Suburb, Find a Chicken -- from the New York Times.

In the Land of Co-ops, Coops -- another New York Times article on city chickens.

Breeds

Go to my chicken breed pages for specific breed links.

Here's the web site of the the American Poultry Association. The APA can also be contacted via apanetcontact@charter.net.

You can contact the American Bantam Association by e-mailing fancybntms@aol.com.

And here's the page for The Poultry Club of Great Britain.

Poultrypages is a UK resource with info on many breeds.

The Poultry Scene is a site dedicated to poultry in the UK.

A fair amount of breed info can be found on Oklahoma State University's Breeds of Poultry page.

A History of Chicken Breeds tells you what breeds were used in making various others.

John Henderson's ICYouSee Handy-Dandy Chicken Chart gives brief summaries of many breeds' characteristics.

Here's another informative list from My Pet Chicken.

Here's John Skinner on bantams.

There are forums on various breeds at the Rare Poultry Alliance.

There is now an Australian Poultry Breeders Directory.

Jan Ubels has put up a page on all the breeds recognized in the Dutch Standard. Unfortunately, it's presently only in Dutch. Hopefully he'll do an English version later, when the Dutch one is finished.

Joke Osinga's page Chicken Breeds is in Dutch and English and has lots of info on many breeds.

Mini posters of Dutch breeds are available here.

Here's a page on French breeds of fowl. It's in French, English and Spanish.

Here's a Danish site (in Danish). Scroll down for the chickens (under Hühner). Some are rare breeds.

KATKI is a page that covers chickens in Hungary, but it's in Hungarian only.

Here's a page of the names of the chicken breeds in Belgium, in Flemish and French.

This is Helen's page on poultry in Denmark.

Here's the German Pedigree Poultry Breeding Net page.

Here's a list of endangered breeds in Germany, including poultry. It's only in German, so info: Class 1 is nearing extinction, II is endangered and III is rare.

From Belgium, here's the Association for Promotion of Belgian Poultry Breeds (in Dutch, English, French and German).

Here's another Belgian site, Bart Poulman's Avivaria, with pics and info on the various Belgian breeds (in Flemish).

The Flemish Interprovincial Association of Breeders of Farmyard Animals has a page which shows various breeds of poultry. All text is in Flemish.

Here's the site of the Swedish Poultry Club, Svenska Lanth�nsklubben. I can't tell you much about it, 'cause it's all in Swedish.

Il Pollaio del Re is an Italian poultry site for amateur breeders. It is mostly in Italian, but there is an English version under construction.

This is a downlaodable file with lots of info on indigenous Japanese chicken breeds.

Johan Opsomer's Chickenbox has a great page on color patterns in chickens and images of many breeds. It's in English and Dutch.

Diane Jacky's Art Gallery. Diane does illustrations of poultry and there's all sorts of stuff here to look at.

Here's a page of commercial stock photos of various chickens, peafowl, etc.

Importations

Procedures for Importing Poultry Hatching Eggs into the United States.

Hatcheries and Poultry Equipment Supply Houses

General resources

Texas A&M University Poultry Sciences has an online Virtual Library.

A technical bibliography on poultry housing and welfare.

The 1999 World Wide Poultry Directory(TM) is in the preparatory stages. This is to be published hardcopy only. Here's how to get yourself listed.

Chickscope 1.5 is the University of Illinois's site where classroom computers and chickens get together. Lots of info here.

The Chicken from A-to-Z Science at DiscoverySchool.com.

Here's a page of Poultry Resources from Mississippi State University.

this is the Poultry FAQ from PoultryHelp.com.

The Pennsylvania State College of Agricultural Sciences has a Poultry Science Resources list.

Here's the Indiana Cooperative Extension's page on choosing a breed.

Selecting the right breed of chicken.

Here's chickenkeeping.com.

And here are some Fowl Ideas from School Science.

This is the site of the National 4-H Poultry & Egg Conference.

This is John King's chicken page for elementary students.

The PoultryNet Home from Georgia Tech has lots of links, but it's very slow loading.

Here's the University of Arizona's page on Chicken Husbandry.

Here's The Easy Chicken page on raising fowl -- easily!

So You Want to Raise Chickens?

My Backyard's Basic Information on Chickens.

Here's the poultryOne page on raising poultry and raising chickens, now easier than ever!

Jackie Nix at the NC cooperative Extension has lots of good links.

The Mississippi State Extension Service has a page of FAQs on many aspects of poultry and their keeping.

Kippen, huisvesting en verzorging is a Dutch and English site on raising backyard poultry.

This is the Jubilee Acres page on breeding poultry.

For those of you who are getting some chicks, or want to hatch some eggs, try this page on Hatching and Brooding Small Numbers of Chicks.

The Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food Extension has a Factsheet on poultry nutrition, rearing, diseases and breeds.

The Small Flock Poultry and Exotic Fowl Companion page has management articles on various fowl and pigeons.

Small flock information from the University of California at Davis.s

Rojo's Roost has links to many good general resources for backyarders.

Here's Chickman's page on Chickens and Their Daily Needs.

Here's a page on chicken feed.

Here are some pages on chicken feeding and nutrition.

Here are links to online publications on Poultry Nutrition.

Chicken Feed: Traditional and healthy ways of feeding your fowl.

Here's a recipe for making your own organic chicken feed.

This is another organic chicken feed recipe.

This is the ATTRA page on feeding chickens.

Joke Osinga has put together a page on the care and accomodation of chickens.

Greg Davis has several interesting articles up: History of the Humble Chicken; Bantams: Mighty Midgets of the Poultry World; Putting the FEATHER in Feathery Friends; and The Baby Chick: Nature's Miracle Child.

Kidfarm has a page on the life cycle of the chicken.

Here's an odd little downloadable pdf "book" for kids on chickens.

A page on the life of battery hens versus that of pet hens.

Animal Files has various classifieds and advertising related to poultry.

The Electronic Zoo / NetVet has a Bird Page with many links to poultry and other avians.

Here's the American Federation of Aviculture home page.

The Chicken: Its Biological, Social, Cultural, and Industrial History from Neolithic Middens to McNuggets. A 3 day conference at Yale in May of 2002 (spam: I was among the 75 speakers).

For published materials on poultry see my book page

Specific resources

If your birds get sick you need a vet who understands the problem. Here's a page where you can enter your area code, zip code, city or state and get a list of Avian Veterinarians in your area.

If that didn't work for you, here's a couple of numbers to try to get a referral:

Association of Avian Veterinarians
407-393-8901

Mid Atlantic States Association of Avian Veterinarians
540-951-2559

De-crowing roosters
Dr. Ross E. Babcock has done this operation and has developed a simple surgery for it. I understand he is willing to speak with other vets about it. He can be reached at:
1215 E Northern Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85020
602-944-9661

Living with roosters
Keeping Your Roosters Sane -- by The Easy Chicken for beginners.

Importing poultry
Procedures for Importing Poultry Hatching Eggs into the United States.

The National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) now has a page.

Here's the University of Georgia Department of Poultry Science's slide show of chicken anatomy.

Here's another page on chicken physiology and anatamy.

Orthopedics for Poultry Made Easy for Beginners.

Predators and their control

Here's a Predator FAQ that deals with predators on poultry and other livestock.

This is Longshadow Farms's page of predator info.

For those with immediate predator problems, here are Jim's plans for a large predator livetrap.

To help keep your birds from flying over that predator-proof fence, drop by and check out Kaliya's page on wing clipping.

On Guard magazine includes an article on Training the Anatolian Shepherd Dog for Poultry Guarding.

And here's a general reference page on Livestock Guardian Dogs.

If none of this works, and someone's dog still gets your birds, here's a page on Estimating The Value Of Domestic Fowl.

Predator proofing: There's some site, I don't remember it, that sells little flashing solar powered lights that repel owls -- aha! here it is: Nite Guard. But if you can't find or afford those, try this!

Toxic plants

Toxic Plants by Their Alphabetical Listing from Purdue.

This is another Guide to Poisonous Plants.

Diseases and the like

Avian Flu

Comments on the avian flu by a friend.

Center for Disease Control speaks on the avian flu.

Bird flu doctor says fear is exaggerated.

The Center for Disease Control on the bird flu.

This is an article on bird flu vaccination from the UK.

The Elm Farm Research Centre (in the UK) on the bird flu.

Here's a report on avian pox from Mississippi State Universary.

And there's even a web book on the bird flu.

And now that that's done with . . .

The Merck Veterinary Manual is now online!!

A Poultry Disease Diagnosis Aid from the Mississippi State University Cooperative Extension Service.

For a nice chart on chicken diseases, go to Chickenbox's info menu - in the English version.

Here are the Poultry Disease links from Rojo's Roost.

Stonegate Meadows's poultry medications and suggested dosages.

Poultry Medication Guide, with dosages, from Penn State University.

Injections: A how-to guide on giving shots to your poultry.

Here you can learn about Ivomec and your birds.

Here's Greg Davie's article on chook diseases.

Help! My chicken is ill!!! - A UK page on chicken diesases.

Here's a page on solutions used for supportive treatments in poultry.

This is the Animal Health Branch of California's page one END (Exotic Newcastle Disease).

A page on Respiratory Infections in domestic poultry flocks.

Learn about upper respiratory fungal infections.

Mycoplasma Gallisepticum Infection and Prevention.

Fowl Pox Prevention - Poultry Tips from UGA.

Here's the Michigan Wildlife Diseases Manual on Avian Pox.

And some images of how Fowl Pox appears.

Here's more info on fowl pox.

Shagbark Bantams has a page on Marek's disease.

Salmonella - can it be treated with chili peppers? Here's an article from New Scientist.

Jerry D. Jones on worms in poultry.

A page on gapeworm, with pictures.

Here's the Fowl Play page on scaly leg mites.

This is a page on Scaly Leg Mites from Bobbie's Backyard Poultry.

for those in the UK, Microshield Solutions has a new deterrent to red mites.

Greg Davis's page on Creepy crawly parasites -- those undesirable hitch-hikers!

Mississippi State University has a page on poultry parasites.

A page from Texas A&M on Viral Diseases including pox and Marek's disease.

Here's a page on Infectious Bronchitis and eggs.

Coccidiosis in Chickens

Fowl Play's page on Eggbound hens.

Here's another page on dealing with eggbound hens.

Here's a page on treating prolapsed oviduct in your hens.

PekinBantams.com on treating impacted crops.

Here's a page on fixing large wounds in chickens.

Orthopedics for Poultry Made Easy for Beginners

Bobbie's Backyard Poultry also has a page on treating bumblefoot.

The Poultry Technology Center has a site where you can order videos on poultry health issues.

Homeopathi is for the Birds. . . and Chickens Too!

Here we have a BBC page on the relative importance of chickens in research.

Here's the University of Georgia Department of Poultry Science's slide show of chicken anatomy.

Here's a somewhat more technical page on chicken anatomy, histology and physiology.

For the do-it-yourselfers, Rojo has a real nice page on how to perform a postmortem on a chicken -- lots of photos with instructions.

This page is on eggs and health and includes some interesting recipes.

Free-range and Pastured Poultry

NFP's page on free range poultry (from the UK).

Robert Plamondon has a page on free-ranging your birds.

Free-rangepoultry.com speaks for itself.

How about using chickens to plant okra?

This is the site of the American Pastured Poultry Producers Association.

Pastured Poultry Resources page on Joel Salatin's Chicken Tractors.

Here's Jim Satterfield's page on learning to drive a chicken tractor.

"Heritage" chicken tractors from the SPPA.

At The City Chicken you'll find lots of information and links on chicken tractors.

Here's instructions for the old Sears "Easy-On" Caponizing Set.

A page by The Nesting Box on How to Caponize a Rooster, with pics.

And this is Paul Helpert's page on pastured poultry.

This is Pam Marshall's article on Preserving Production Qualities.

And after you've raised 'em in those chicken tractors, you may want to read Yonderway's page on Field Dressing Poultry for Beginners. (and they don't mean in suit and tie).

Blue Oak Ranch has an excellent page on hand-butchering poultry, with lots of photos.

Here's Paul's homemade tub type poultry plucker.

Lonesome Turkey or how to get your birds to market.

Who's laying? Here's Choosing the Keepers - How to spot the REAL "Working Girls" in your flock.

Here's a page on Evaluating Egg Production Hens.

Eggs (and Embryos)

OK! So it's no longer new--I had to keep this neat piece of art somewhere!
The image was a gift to FeatherSite from Sondra Seeger.

Hans Schipper's article on dark brown eggs -- use their search box to find "brown eggs."

How a hen lays her eggs.

Here's a page on cholesterol in eggs.

David's Blue Egg page looks at the genetics of egg color.

Hatching eggs as a school project, a page from Mink Hollow Farm.

Mrs. Chagnon's Sixth Grade class has put together a page describing the development of the chick embryo.

4-H Embryology in the Classroom has an informative page.

Here's a page on Chick Embryolgy from the Pine Tree State 4-H Club.

Pictures of the hatching process from Kemp's Koops.

Here's the Ohio State University Extension's page on incubation and embryonic development.

This is a Mississippi State University Cooperative Extension page on the avian embryo.

This is a page on The Timing of Major Embryonic Developments.

The University of New South Wales has a page on chicken development.

Incubation and Embryology -- the University of Illinois extension's hands-on project for teachers.

Stop by the Museum of Science & Industry and watch a movie of a chick hatching.

Purdue University's chickzone has a morphing embryo movie.

All about Eggs is a page for kids!

Cedar Grove Farms has some good information on eggs and incubation.

Easter chicks? Here's a page on coloring chicks while still in the egg uisng injected dyes.

How about Duck Eggs?

Mississippi State University's page on candling eggs.

Constructing a homemade egg candler.

Quacker's Tips on candling eggs.

Here's a page on candling for meat spots.

Candling Pictures for beginners by The Easy Chicken.

This is the Mink Hollow Farm tutorial on candling duck eggs.

If you're into eggs, you might want to drop by the American Egg Board Web Site.

Incubation

Brooding

Here's a link to plans for a homemade brooder by Maurice Field.

And another homemade brooder by Jim Satterfield.

Big Sky Waterfowl has a page on incubating and brooding wild ducklings.

This is the Easy Chicken's page on brooding.

The Virginia Cooperative Extension has a page up on the Brooding of Domestic Fowl.

Starting Chicks On The Right Foot from Kemp's Koops.

A couple of interesting brooders.

Here are some brooding tips from Rojo's Roost.

The Mississippi State University Extension Service also has a page on sexing day-old chicks.

Here's John's page Sexing Chicks: Some Clues.

And here's a page by Jerry D. Jones on Chick Sexing.

This is Maurice Field's broodery for young waterfowl.

Here's a page on brooding geese.

Check out Ian's page on Incubation and Brooding of Ornamental Waterfowl.

Here's the Virtual Hatchery's page on brooding.

Here's Six Feathers Seramas page on brooding chicks.

Coops

Here's instructions for building a 4x8 banty coop from The Bantam Roost.

Wow! Lots and lots and lots of coops linked here.

Stop by Dick and Terry's Bantam Roost on housing poultry. They've also got plans for a small henhouse.

A page on Small Scale Poultry Housing, by The Virginia Cooperative Extension, includes plans for several sizes of coops.

Henspa - The ultimate backyard chicken coop! A kit for a movable coop which will house up to 12 hens.

The Domestic Fowl Trust has various coop plans for sale.

Coop construction at Rocking T Ranch.

Here are Laurene's Chicken House Construction Pictures.

Here are some coop plans from Frits Farm.

Here's a Canadian page with plans for coops and nest boxes.

Here are NannyP's coops and pens.

Here's a page on How to build a Chicken Coop.

Free chicken coop plans are available here.

Hoop houses!

And stop by my Coops and Pens area on my Suppliers page to see what else is for sale.

Pens

Here are Maurice Field's plans for a movable pen for fowl.

This is a page of pen designs for Peafowl from Legg's Peafowl Farm.

More technical stuff

The US Poultry Gene Mapping page is a great site for breeders or those with an interest in genetics.

Wow!! Poultry Genetics for the Non-professional - just what I need.

Another site for those with an interest in genetics is the Roslin Institute's Chicken Genome Mapping Project Chick Map.

Rockin Rooster Ranch's Poultry Papers Page has lots of stuff on sex-links and genetics.

Ostriches anyone? (and other ratites)

North Dakota State University has a text page of general ostrich information.

The Canadian Ratite Home Page has lots of bibliographic information.

Here's an Ostrich Bibliography, for you folks who want to learn more about them.

Ostriches On Line has a complete Ratite Reference Center.

The British Domesticated Ostrich Association has a page on Ostrich farming.

Here's Kid's Emu page, with general info about these fascinating birds.

See the pet Ostrich at Jack Long's Exotic Birds.

Star K Farm has pages up on Emu and White Rheas.

Peafowl and Pheasants (and the odd Guinea, too)

Sorry, you pheasant folk, peafowl stuff first. This is my page!

For published materials on these birds see my book page

Game Bird and Waterfowl Breeders' E-mail Directory.

The Home Page of the American Pheasant & Waterfowl Society includes pictures of some exotic species.

The Game Bird & Waterfowl Message Board.

Aviornis International Nederland is the Netherland's society for preserving endangered fowl. This is the English version of the page.

Dan Cowell has a great Pheasant and Peafowl Page, with lots of information and images, including photos of some peafowl mutations.

The United Peafowl Association has lots of info, links, and a breeders directory.

How about the University of Nebraska Cooperative Extension's page on Keeping Peafowl.

The Internet Peafowl Resource is still mostly under construction, but it looks like it will be a great resource.

Marion Smith's article on the History of Peafowl in Captivity.

How to raise peachicks from 3 Peas Bird Farm.

Here's a page with lots of pictures of various Peafowl. All the text is in Flemish.

This is a text only page on peafowl mutations that describes various color varieties.

Here's Susan's Wild Peacock Page, with photos and information.

This is a page on wild peafowl in India.

Here's a page on Peafowl genetics.

This is Amy's Peacock Paradise with images of lots of varieties in the Peafowl Varieties Database.

Don Arndt's Peacock Page.

Here's Celeste on Peafowl.

Laurence's page on the birth of a peachick.

Black Orchid Peafowl has a page up with photos of Purples, Silver Pieds and Javas. Birds for sale here.

Texas Peafowl has over 40 varieties of Peafowl, plus some pheasants and Vulturine and Crested Guineas.

The Feathers and Friends Farm have a Peafowl page, too.

At peacocksforever.com you can learn about them . . . and by peacock notecards and calendars.

Susan sells peacock feathers (and those from lots of other species).

Jerry Kinder's Peacock Page has pictures of Bronze Peafowl and also some Java Greens. Birds for sale here.

Ancona's Peafowl has pictures up of many varieties. Birds for sale here.

See the peafowl at Deb's Funny Farm.

Ozark Peafowl has pictures of Cameo and Spaulding Peafowl. Birds for sale here.

There are many varieties of peafowl for sale at Animal Paradise, including the new Midnight color.

There are peafowl at the Von Russell Farm. Birds for sale here.

Rock-n-Cedar has images of various peafowl varieties. Birds for sale here.

Brian & Tracey's Peafowl Page.

Here are Brishe's Peacocks.

Mike and Jody have some nice photos of Cameo Peafowl.

Red Oaks Exotic Bird Farm has many varieties of peafowl for sale, plus various pheasants.

Here's Wings & Things's page on India Blue Peafowl.

Go to Peacock Heaven to see Hash's peafowl.

Here you can meet Chris's India Blue Peafowl.

This is the site of the Von Russell Farm Peafowl.

Bobby Castlebury has ornamental pheasants and peafowl. Birds for sale here.

The Michigan Bird and Game Breeders Association has a gallery of pictures of Peafowl and Tragopans.

There's a bunch of Peafowl in the Arts Building of the University of Western Australia!

How are the colors in the peacock's train formed -- some hypotheses from Brigham Young University.

This is Western NC Nature Center's page on the Indian Peafowl

On My Peacock Web Page, Jim has pictures of eggs and new hatchlings.

Glorious Peafowl, a page from The Gazette.

Peacocks come to "Kibbenjelok" -- living with peafowl, a page with nice pictures.

See the Peafowl at My Pets.

Here's the Peafowlareus home page, with info on incubation and peachick care.

There are Black-shouldered Peafowl at Lindenwood's.

There are Peafowl for sale at Prickeree Pines Gamebird Farm.

Legg's Peafowl Farm has lots of images and also birds for sale.

Here's a page on feral peafowl in New Zealand.

See the Peafowl at Birds of Paradise.

Various Peafowl and some ornamental pheasants are available from Mouse Creek Feather Farm.

Peafowl Leftovers:
A stained glass peacock in Missouri.
Another page on the history of the NBC peacock icon.
Here's something interesting to do with all those molted eye feathers.
The Spiritual Peacock is a page on peacock allegories in India.

Here's the Guinea Fowl Breeders Association.

This is the site of the Guinea Fowl International Association.

The Guinea Fowl Message Board.

Here's Mason Hatchery's page on all the colors of guineas and their Guinea Fowl message board.

Hash's guineafowl page has images of many varieties.

Guinea Forl colors and patterns can be found here.

And here is Lady T's Guinea Gallery.

Drop by the Guinea Fowl General Store.

Nova Scotia Agriculture and Marketing on raising Guinea Fowl.

And here we have Lady T's Guinea Gallery, with pictures of her brooder, keets and adults.

Here's Frit's Farm's page on Gardening with Guineas.

And Celeste on Guineas.

The Roger Williams Park Zoo has a page on Guinea Fowl.

The Christian Science Monitor has an article on them up: "Here come the guinea fowl, there go the bugs."

There are guineas at Willow Hatchery.

Here you'll find Shady Hollow guineas.

Guinea Fowl can be found at CBF Super Quail.

See the guineas at Philen Farms.

There are Guineas at Birds of Paradise.

Here's HOAGBA's page on Ornamental Varieties of Guineafowl.

Some basic information on the pheasant family.

A good photo of the Common Pheasant of Japan.

HOAGBA's page of questions & answers on Copper Pheasants.

Pheasant monitoring in S.E.Asia, an ongoing study.

The Pheasant Project, a Scandinavian study of spur size and hen preference in pheasants.

TRAGOPAN, the Newsletter of the Pheasant Specialist Group.

Ornamental Gamebirds for Sale is a Yahoo group board.

You'll find lots of pheasant photos at Roman's Acres.

AVIORNIS UK - Conservation through Captive Breeding.

Here's the page of the World Pheasant Association.

Here's Ellen's page at Game Birds R Us, with pictures of various game birds and some exotic chickens.

Pictures and some info on some Upland Game Birds of North America.

Here's Squaw Creek Farm's pheasant page. Birds for sale here.

The Tragopan Pheasantry is a Belgian site. They raise exotics and have good articles on aviculture.

Red Farm Pheasantry has one of the largest collections in Europe. their pages are in both English and Dutch. Birds for sale here.

Anatoly's Waterfowl and Pheasantry has lots of pictures of exotics.

Pheasant Ridge has pages on many pheasants and also sells them, but only ships within Canada.

Here's Gord's Game Birds. He's got pheasants, chukar, guineas and bobwhite. (Birds for sale here)

The Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food Dept. has a page on Pheasant Production.

This is The Gazette's page on raising and marketing Golden Pheasants.

Don Arndt's Pheasant Page.

There are various pheasants at Allandoo in Scotland, including Brown Eared, Mikado, Copper and Firebacks.

Here's Dan Cowell's Francolin and Partridge Page.

A HOAGBA page on Erckel's Francolin.

Here's Leland Hayes on the Black Francolin.

AgGame Birds has a page on Chukar production.

Reston Gamebird Farm has a lot of pictures of various pheasants on its catalog page. Birds for sale here.

Texas Game Birds at Lyon Gate Ranch has lots of pheasants. Birds for sale here.

This is the page from Ashley Valley Pheasants.

Rock-N-Chair Ridge Pheasant Breeding has birds for sale.

Fullflight Game Farm deals in pheasants, quail and partridge. Birds for sale here.

Laurence's "Gamebird Place" -- he's into pheasants and the like.

Stop here to see Brian & Tracey's pheasants.

Stop by the Pheasant Perch to see their Firebacks, Snowcocks, Wood Partridges and Tragopans.

Bleueracres Game Farm has lots of pheasants for sale and also some wildfowl.

There are some nice images of exotic pheasants on Hidden Corner Pheasantry's page. Birds for sale here.

Lake Cumberland Game Bird Farm has Bob Whites, Chukars and Ringnecks for sale.

And Darren Stokes's Gamebird Page.

Pheasant Haven features photographs of a Vulturine Guinea Fowl and a Temminck's Tragopan.

Tragopanerie "De Valendries" is in English and Dutch.

The Texas Gamebird Association's page and Wings Forecast--the Texas Gamebird Newsletter.

Olesen's Flyway has various gamebirds.

The North American Gamebird Association is oriented toward gamebird breeders and hunting preserves.

The Western Game Bird Association page focuses on preserves and gamebird propagation in the American west.

High Plains Pheasantry has many birds for sale, including Tragopans, Mikado, Golden and Silver pheasants and various quail.

Gamebird Technologies has a message board, links and products.

Pigeons

The National Pigeon Association: America's All Breed Pigeon Club.

National Pigeon Association -- Fancy pigeons in Great Britain.

The Columbarian Preservational Society works to preserve rare breed pigeons.

Can't find a club for your favorite breed? Here's a Pigeon Breed Club Locator.

The birds of our fancy - pigeon standards from the AZ Pigeon Club.

Pigeons Mailing List.

Verband Deutscher Rassetaubenzüchter e. V. is the national pigeon society of Germany.

Porumbeii de Oradea is another page on pigeons. It is in Romanian.

A Guide to Raising Healthy Pigeons

Cedar Valley Lofts has lots of info on pigeons.

This is the Pigeon Realm.

Here's a page on keeping your pigeons healthy.

Pigeon Watch has a great page with info about street pigeons.

PP's Page is a memorial to a street pigeon, with info on pigeon natural history.

At Pigeon City you'll find all sorts of stuff for fanciers, including show info and breed standards.

The World Pigeon Center has pages up in English, French, Dutch and German.

Here's Pigeons World Wide, with pages in both English and Dutch.

Tauben Welt (Pigeon World) is only in German.

And then you can flutter over to the Pigeon Cote.

Don Arndt's Pigeon Page and Dove Page.

TradeMaster.net is a place to locate pigeons and other birds.

Here's Greg Davis's page on housing pigeons.

Chris's Pigeon Page has lots of pictures, information and links.

Here's Boglin Marsh on the history of racing pigeons.

The Sun Valley Pigeon Page has lots of links and pictures.

Pigeon & Dove keeping information from Featherhead.

This is DoveLine -- the page of the American Dove Association.

This is Hillside Aviary's page on Ringneck Doves. Birds for sale here.

Robert Stephenson has two pages up on Ringneck Doves: page 1 and page 2.

Some photos of Bill Asby's Australian Bronze Wing Doves

HOAGBA has a page up on Senegal Doves.

Here's Donna Gordon's Diamond Doves -- birds for sale here.

DOVElove~ is Colleen's page on keeping small doves.

Plum Greenwing, Senegal and Diamond Doves are available from Emerald Isle Aviary.

The Pigeon Post has breeding software available for downloading.

The University of Singapore is developing a page on Pigeon Culture (that's how to raise 'em, not which operas they go to!). =I;-)

The Kansas State University Extension Service also has a page on raising pigeons.

Flock - The Pigeon Project has a bunch of nice pigeon-related links.

The Pigeon . . . more than a park scavenger.

Sid Page has put up Fifty Years of Flying--My Life with Racing Pigeons.

Here's Pigeon Paradise, a page on Racing Pigeons All Over the World. Mostly in Belgian, with some English.

And another on Pigeon Racing in the UK.

The Internet Pigeon Loft is a meeting place for racing pigeon breeders with pages in Dutch, English and German.

This is HomingWorld.Net's page for racing pigeon fanciers.

Canary Island Breeding Station raises "over water" racers.

Nigel's Pigeon Racing Information from HC Lofts in the UK.

Hawkbait Lofts has racing pigeons.

So does Engle Lofts Racing Pigeons.

Boglin Marsh - The Racing Pigeon Fanciers Portal.

Here's a site on Keeping Racing Pigeons Healthy.

Oak Haven Farms has Racing Pigeons for sale.

Here's Adam's page on Homing Pigeons.

This is Goldrush Farm's Racing Pigeon page, in English and Dutch.

Loftmaster2000 Pigeon Software sells stuff for breeders and racers.

How about a page on Pigeon Genetics?

In The Loft is "The On-line Journal for Pigeon People."

"Pigeon" - an art exhibition in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, (and then touring) is asking people to drop by their page. They are trying to learn about peoples' responses to the word "pigeon."

Silver Lofts Pigeons is a hobbyist's page on fancies and fliers.

Here's a page of drawings of Owls and Frills.

See the Rollers, Fantails and English Trumpeters at the Pigeon Roost. There's classifieds, a bunch of links, and birds for sale here.

This is Tilly's Pigeon Coop -- Rollers for sale here.

This is Alisha's Pigeon Page, with information on Racing Homers and fancies.

World of Wings Pigeon Center deals with Homers.

Mick Bassett's page - he's a Breeder And Exhibitor of Fancy Pigeons.

Here's King Tut Loft's page on Egyptian Swift Pigeons. Birds for sale here.

This is a page with lots of information (and pictures) of Syrian breed pigeons. Birds for sale here.

How pigeons are used to run the google search engine.

Pigeon Control - Some sites with devices to help keep pigeons off your balcony or whatever.

Nixalite - Architectural Bird Control

Bird-X SPIKES block birds from their "landing strips."

Bird Spike 2001 is another site for keeping pigeons away.

Bird spikes at PPC in the UK

Here's the Deter a Pigeon site.

Lost Pigeons - Some sites to help in tracing band numbers

911 Pigeon Alert

Quail

Game Bird and Waterfowl Breeders' E-mail Directory.

Quails Unlimited is America's leader in Quail conservation.

Dan Cowell's Quail Page has good links and will have care sheets on various species.

That Quail Place is another good general site with lots of info on various Quail and also Partridges.

Chris Zegstroo has put up some nice photos of a few species of quail.

And here's That Quail Place.

Quail Unlimited has a page with information on various North American species. (A hunting-related page.)

Bear Bayou Quail Farm has large Bobwhites and Coturnix. Birds for sale here.

Bobwhite Quail Farm of Hatchbend is in Florida.

Hillside Aviary has Coturnix, Button and California Valley Quail. Birds for sale here.

Button, Valley, Gambels and Mountain Quail are available from Emerald isle Aviary.

Various quail are at Red Oak Game Birds.

That Quail Place has info on Quail and other game birds.

Turkeys

If you're interested in the rare breeds of turkeys, here's the Rare Heritage Turkeys mailing list.

Townline Farm Poultry Reserve raises heritage turkeys for the Thanksgiving market.

You can see many varieties of rare turkeys at Porter's Rare Heritage Turkeys.

Here's a list of Turkey breeders.

The Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food Extension's page on turkey nutrition and rearing.

This is a Guide to the Recognition of Parthenogenesis in Incubated Turkey Eggs.

G & K Exotics has a page with pictures of a Lavender Turkey.

Jubilee Acres has a page on Heritage turkeys.

Here's an article on heritage breeds: "Historic Turkeys Want Table Time."

Red Rose Hatchery specializes in Turkey Genetic Preservation -- heritage breeds for sale.

A paper from the University of Nebraska on Blackhead Disease in Turkeys.

Miller Hatcheries also has a page up on Blackhead.

Information on Blackhead in Small Turkey Flocks from The Univ. of Minnesota.

Hot News for Turkeys - using cayenne for treating blackhead!

Here's an article on Blue Slate Turkeys.

Why is a turkey called a turkey when it's not from Turkey? Here's the history of the name "turkey".

If you're interested, here's a research paper on "Single Gene Traits of the Turkey."

Pat's Critters has lots of pics of Bourbon Reds.

And here's a bunch of Royal Palms at Willow Hatchery.

You can meet Kim's turkey "Goober" at Buy-Buy Birdies.

And here's "Tikey," Karen's pet Bourbon Red tom.

There are Heritage Turkey varieties at Walters Hatchery.

There are Heritage Turkeys at CBF Super Quail.

Waterfowl (Domestic): "web"-footed friend information to be found here!

There is now a mailing list for Domestic Waterfowl Breeders. The list is aimed at breeding and showing domestic waterfowl, understanding the genetics of domestic waterfowl, and maintaining pure bloodlines. Techinical discussions are encouraged.

And here's the Poultry Connection's Exhibition Waterfowl Forum.

This is the link to the British Waterfowl Association's (BWA) homepage.

A page on Raising Ducks from the University of Minnesota.

Metzer Farms has put up a basic page on keeping ducks and geese.

Here's the Poultry for small farmers page on raising geese.

The Duck Care Home Page from Cornell.s

A page on duck and goose nutrition and rearing by the Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food Extension.

Duck and Goose from Farm to Table

Ducks! The Other White Meat -- a discussion of various breeds by Greg Davis.

Legarth Geese -- a commercial strain of goose

This is Dan's page on raising and keeping Ducks.

Liveducks.com has info on various breeds of domestic duck.

Majestic Waterfowl Sanctuary is a rescue organization for domestic waterfowl located in Connecticut.

Find out about Abacot Ranger Ducks.

Here's another page on Abacot Rangers.

Mink Hollow Farm's page on the edibility of duck eggs.

Here's the page of the International Waterfowl Breeders Association.

The Domestic Waterfowl Club in the UK also has a page up.

Metzer Farms page on raising ducks and geese includes info on ponds and plantings.

Here's Acorn Hollow Bantams, Lou Horton's bantam duck page. A couple nice articles here on feeding waterfowl and hatching waterfowl eggs. Ducks for sale here.

Peter, of Walnut Ridge Farm, is big on waterfowl.

Cabbage Hill Farm raises rare breeds, specializing in Shetland Geese and Ducks.

Meet the waterfowl at Black Dog Farm.

American Buff Geese in The Netherlands

The Duckgod Speaks is an Aussie's page on ducks.

Here are Tim's ducks, over at the Poultry Connection.

Duck Pictures and Facts

Here's Sjaak's page on Pomerse ducks (in Dutch).

JimBwata & Family: A site about a loving duck family and related goodies.

At Quacker's Homepage you can meet Iridesa's pet ducks, see their city coop and find more duck info.

Here's Kayla's Ducks -- a 4H page about her exhibition and pet ducks.

See all the ducks at Little House Poultry Farm.

There's lots of ducks and geese at Mink Hollow Farm.

And many more at Gooseneck Hill Waterfowl Farm.

Information on various Breeds of Geese can be found right here.

German Layer Geese

The Duck Diaries - an imprinting experiment.

In the UK, Pond House has a variety of waterfowl for sale.

Los Patos y sus parientes - a Spanish waterfowl page.

Here's Ashton Waterfowl in the UK, where you can find Indian Runners, Call Ducks and domestic geese.

This is WondersWaterfowl, where you can find Sebastopols and Runners, among other birds.

Axon's Waterfowl is another UK site for exhibition quality waterfowl.

See the ducks and geese at Alfajiri in Finland.

Austin Duck Police has information about the various waterfowl living on the lakes around Austin, TX.

There are some wonderful waterfowl posters available from the artist Monte Dolack. I love 'em!

See also Wildfowl Links

Wildfowl Links

Farmer types may want to check out these resources

Web-Agri: The First Agricultural Search Engine

Agrisurf searches a database of agricultural sites, including poultry information.

The Organic Farmers' page.

The Small Farm Resource.

Agricultural Resources is another page you may find useful.

And here's AgriculturalInformation.com.

The Missouri Alternatives Center has extensive links on agricultural subjects.

The Farm Information Exchange.

Here's the Farmlinks Resource Center.

Down to the Roots is a homesteading magazine.

This is Chris Hedemark's Rural Living Homepage for homesteaders.

Another good source for homesteaders is England's Country Garden & Smallholding magazine.

ATTRA - Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas may be of interest to small farmers and homesteaders.

ARC--Animal Improvement Institute - Fowls for Africa

Synalaf : volailles fermières Label Rouge -- high quality free-range birds from France (in French, English and German).

If you're into homesteading, you might be interested in Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog.

Vegans and animal rights extremists may feel right at home over at the United Poultry Concerns homepage. Stop over here for my flame.

Fly-tying

Featherside Flies (no relation to this site!) has fly-tying materials available here.

Go to Dry Fly Hackle to see birds developed for fly-tying.

Poultry leftovers

My friend Toni at Keepsake Eggs designs these eggs. She will do it to eggs of your own or she will find the right egg and design it for you.

The Random Chick-en Home Page. This one's a lot of fun.

Want an egg? If you're on a Macintosh you can download your own egg right here!

Or, how about adopting a virtual chicken?

Maybe you want to consult with the Fortune Chicken at Lipstick Mystic?

Here's a (Windoze) screen saver that smashes eggs on your desktop.

Or how about some poultry wallpaper for your desktop? When you get to Jan's Waterfowl Wallpaper, look under Downloads.

Why did the chicken cross the road? -- the chicken as operating system.

OK, if you don't have anything better to do, you can go be dominant at The Subservient Chicken.

Or even check out the Guiness World Record for the world's largest chicken dance.

Here's a page on chicken training for the masses.

Here's The Chicken Store, where you can buy all sorts of chicken related "objects."

Bee Creek Farm Gifts is another place to find fowl-related items -- 10% off if you say you're coming from feathersite.com.

Chicken collectibles can be found at Chicken Decor and Gifts.

And you can carry it all in a bag decorated with a cockerel or a Runner Duck.

Here's your Crowing Alarm Clock

Or you could buy a chicken hat!

Do chickens prefer the beautiful people?

NPR's "This American Life" now has its Poultry Slam programs on the web. You can play 'em with Real Audio.

Go watch 'em, at the Chicken Show Home Page -- see chicken imitations, crowing contest, flying chickens and more.

Or, is you want to sing about them, go learn "Ghost Chickens in the Sky!"

If that's excited you, hop on over to Chicken Tunes for more!

Welcome to Chicken Radio -- The show that's about chickens, but not for the birds . . .

Read up on the latest news! Check out the Welsummer Times - by chickens, for chickens.

Here's a page on the development of the National Poultry Museum.

Here you can learn about Mike the Wonder Chicken - the headless rooster who (supposedly) lived for 4 years.

And have you ever watched a chicken dance troop?

For some adventures of the heart, drop by Chicken Heart Adventures!

Or look here for some "cheep thrills."

Foie gras, anyone?

Want to learn to blow eggs? Here's Jim Satterfield's great page of tips on this and more.

Or how to color Easter eggs?

Decorated eggs! The ultimate gift for someone who has everything?

And here is Nancy Phares's Egg Art: ostrich egg lamps, jewelry, and plaques.

All you egg artists may want to check the Egg Channel, a site that connects egg decorators and suppliers.

Castlebury Specialty Awards designs plaques as awards for poultry shows.

KeepsakeEggs -- a "one of a kind" eggsperience. Very nice egg art work.

And if decorated egg shells don't do it for you, how about Egg Shell Sculpture?

Or, in time for Easter, you could take up Pysanky, the art of painting Ukranian Easter eggs.

What about feather trees for Christmas?

Oh, the things they'll use feathers for!!

How about some chicken folk magic?

Here's Nina Chebry's gallery of chicken art.

Here's some more chicken art by Cindy Ryan.

These are Eric Fausnacht's chicken paintings.

Galerie Dominique Ladoux - stop here to see some great chicken paintings - it's in French, but go to Galeries and click on Coqs.

Get your vintage poultry prints at e-i-e-i-o.

There's some great images of fowl at Leeside Farm Photography.

Or perhaps you want to commission a portrait of your birds!

And here's Katherine Plumer Fine Art -- lots of poultry pictures and she's gonna be doing the illustrations for the next APA Standard of Perfection.

Quilters take note of Maggie Walker Design's neat chicken quilt pattern.

Here's the Poultry Connection's selection of virtual poultry postcards.

Or, if you're the outdoorsy type and poultry crafts don't do it for you, how about goin' fishin' for chickens?

Historical poultry photos can be obtained here.

And for all you philatelists out there, here's a page on Anseriformes (waterfowl) on postage stamps, and another on Galliformes (game birds).

A peep of chickens, a confusion of guineas, a proud of peafowl, etc.

Birds in Numbers . . . or . . . whaddaya call a bunch of ducks?

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