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Wikipedia entry on Raising Chickens - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken
Biology, history, and information concerning the chicken and its care. |
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Chickscope - http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/
A project to study chicken embryo development developed by educators, researchers, and teachers. |
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Incubation and Embryology Resources - http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/eggs/res00-index.html
University of Illinois Extension research project with varied information on subjects related to breeding, incubating, hatching, and raising chicks. |
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Chicken Characteristics - http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/resource-room/general/poultry/chicken.htm
Descriptive diagram of both the male and female chicken. |
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The City Chicken - http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/
Provides plenty of information to help city dwellers to get started in this enterprise, including details of coops and workshops to attend. |
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Poultry Disease Diagnosis - http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p1276.htm
Outlines a plan for examining sick birds, deals with the flock history, the external examination, euthanasia, poultry anatomy and necropsy, to enable diagnosis and treatment of the flock. |
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Chicken Production - http://www.antwifarms.com/chickenhome.shtml
Collection of links to research materials on production chicken husbandry including news, diseases, economics, reproduction, management, genetics, housing, and nutrition. |
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Amber Waves Show Silkies - http://www.showsilkies.com
Articles on raising silkie chickens. |
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Chickenbox - http://www.kippengrabbelton.be/engels/
A collection of topics all about chickens and aspects of their care and keeping with breed information table and photographs, "Chicken ABC" alphabetical topic index, and question and answer section to name a few. |
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http://learningstore.uwex.edu/pdf/NCR209.pdf - http://learningstore.uwex.edu/pdf/NCR209.pdf
University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension publication. |
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Best Breeds of Chickens - http://msucares.com/poultry/management/poultry_best_breed.html
Mississippi State University Extension Service discussion on the selection of a particular breed for a home flock. |
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Red Square - http://www.the-coop.org/redsquare/redsqr1.html
Rhode Island Red resource page. Breeders of single comb Rhode Island Reds share photo album and articles on breeding and breed characteristics. |
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Hatching Quality Chicks - http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p1182.htm
Provides guidance on breeder flock management, the selection and care of eggs including fumigation and storage, incubators and incubation procedures, with a trouble-shooting chart. |
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Avian Embryo - http://msucares.com/pubs/publications/p1150.htm
An in-depth look at the way an egg develops, in only three weeks, into a newly hatched chick. Provides advice on constructing an incubator and some embryology projects. |
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Quality Poultry in Scotland - http://www.eggsforhatching.co.uk
We are breeders of rare breed Scots Greys as well as other poultry and waterfowl. We also breed Mini Lop Rabbits. |
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The Easy Chicken - http://www.shilala.com/
Plenty of helpful information to help a beginner set up a poultry enterprise. |
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Longtail Fowl and Longcrowers of the World - http://www.longtail-fowl.com/
Articles, information, and pictures of ornamental longtail fowl in many breeds. |
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Pekin Bantams - http://www.pekinbantams.com
Articles, forum, and links for those raising bantams. |
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Small Chicken Coop Ideas - http://www.geocities.com/chickenfarmerjoyce/index.html?985724188600
Describes ideas on building small chicken coops. Includes drawings and photos. |
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Cyndilou's Chicken Flock: A Place about Chickens - http://www.cyndilou6.com
Information about chickens, their care, coops, breeds, chick care and brooder area, chicken pictures, and links. |
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Rosecomb Bantam Federation - http://www.rosecomb.com/federation/
Information on this organisation, the rosecomb breed standard, meetings, members and various articles on rosecombs. |
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poultryOne Guide to Raising Chickens - http://poultryone.com
Articles about raising poultry, and a forum. |
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The Urban Chicken - http://www.al.com/specialreport/mobileregister/?chickens.html
Mobile Register, Alabama news, articles on chicken care and keeping and on laws regarding backyard flocks. Has how to build a chicken ark. |
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Kemp's Koops - http://www.poultrysupply.com/poultry/
Information on Old English Game bantams featuring photo series of hatching process, articles on breeding and raising, photos from the 1997 National Meet, and photos of varieties. |
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Keeping Chickens at Home Blog - http://keepingchickens.blogspot.com
Personal journal with pictures and video showing beginners how to keep chickens at home. |
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Pocket Flocks - http://www.angelfire.com/de/pocketflocks/
Bantam chicken breeding, networking, and care information and links to many resources. |
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Kasturi: Poultry - http://www.kasturi.info
Provides hatchery, layer and broiler business management software for the poultry industry allowing control over production and performance details, stock levels and inventory management. |
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The Red Jungle Fowl - http://www.geocities.com/hs_wong33/RedJungleFowl.html
History and characteristics of the original chicken. |
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Jane's Backyard Chickens - http://janesbackyardchickens.com
Jane Wright gives good advice on raising chickens and anecdotes from her chicken peeps. |
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Bantam Chickens and Waterfowl - http://www.eepsandpeeps.com
Breeder of bantam white crested black polish chickens, ducks, mandarin, grey call, american wood, white wood, white mandarins for sale. |
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Perfect Poultry - http://www.perfectpoultry.co.uk/
Feeders, drinkers, incubators, and chicken care information. |
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Adding Amprolium to Chicken Feed - http://chikinman.tripod.com
Outlines research into whether including this antibiotic in their food affects weight gain in broiler chicks. |
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Handbook on Poultry Diseases - http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/55/handbook-on-poultry-diseases
Information to assist veterinarians, students, and avian health professionals to diagnose, treat and prevent diseases in poultry flocks. |
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Chicken Scientific Name and Scientific Names of Poultry Species - http://raisechickens.blogspot.com/2006/03/scientific-name-for-chicken.html
A list of the scientific names of the domestic chicken, as well as other common poultry species. |
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Game Fowl UK - http://www.gamefowl.co.uk/
Provides information on game chicken breeds from around the world and a photograph gallery. |
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Scots Dumpy Genetics - http://www.scotsdumpy.co.uk/kreuperarticle.html
Provides information on the history of this short legged breed which is known as Krueper in continental Europe. |
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Just Sussex Poultry - http://www.justsussex.com/id1.html
Provides photographs and descriptions of light, silver, speckled and buff Sussex chickens and bantams. |
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Poultry Management System - http://www.tulassi.com/pro.html
Providers of poultry management software for both egg and meat producing flocks. |
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How To Raise Day-Old Chicks in Your Back Yard - http://www.webelfin.com/chickens/index.html
Information on raising chicks with minimum equipment, including feeding, setup, problems, sexlinks, breeds, broody hens, pastured poultry, and free range chickens. |
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The Life Cycle of the Chicken - http://www.mwt.net/~hobbyfarm/chicken.htm
Outline of development of a chicken from before to after being in the egg. Chick feeding information, breeds information, informational coloring pages, and science projects with an egg. |