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Care and husbandry
All breeds
- Keeping a healthy flock
- Causes of feather loss
- Chickens - digestive system
- Incubation - chickens and other species
Chickens
- Small scale poultry keeping - housing, feeding and managing
- Moulting - how, when and why chickens moult
- Common breeds of poultry used in crossbreeding for commercial flocks - characteristics and uses
- Housing small numbers of poultry
- Chicken sexing
Ducks
Geese
Guinea fowl
Emus and ostriches (ratites)
- Starting an emu farm
- Emu reproduction
- Ratite brooding
- Emus - nutritional requirements for breeding emus
- Emus - nutritional requirements for growing emus
- Emus - catching and handling
- Ostriches - capture, restraint and handling
- Stock shelter design
Related information
For further information on keeping poultry, including small scale and species other than fowls, please visit the New South Wales Government web site poultry section and the poultry industry site PoultryHub.


