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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
- A rearing and disease guide for keepers of small numbers of poultry
- Housing, feeding and managing domestic poultry
- 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 breeding
- 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 NSW Department of Primary Industries poultry section.
