The practical guide to keeping healthy, productive backyard poultry in Australia
WHAT THIS GUIDE COVERS
- Choosing the right poultry breeds
- Buying, breeding and raising chickens
- Incubating and hatching chicks
- Housing design and setup
- Feeding and nutrition
- Egg collection and handling
- Poultry health, biosecurity and disease prevention
- Managing parasites and common health issues
- Humane handling and flock management
Everything you need to know to keep backyard chickens. Poultry Agskills provides a practical guide to the essentials skills and practices of keeping poultry. The book contains easy step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and full-colour pictures.
WHO THIS GUIDE IS FOR
- New chicken keepers
- Hobby farms
- Agricultural students
- School agriculture programs
- Small-scale poultry producers
CHAPTERS
- Introduction
- Animal welfare
- General safety precautions
- Choose poultry
- Choose a breed
- Breed chickens using a hen
- Mechanically incubate chickens
- Buy and rear chickens
- Identify stock
- Purchase point of lay pullets
- Provide housing
- Manage broody hens
- Collect and handle eggs
- Feed poultry
- Maintain poultry health
- Prevent and treat external parasites
- Prevent and treat internal parasites and diseases
- Prevent the spread of disease
- Catch, check and dispose of spent birds
- Glossary of terms
- References and industry contacts
- What is a safe work method statement?
- Check your skills
Author: David Brouwer
ISBN: 9780731306169 | 76 pages | A4
Catalogue number: B704
Publisher: NSW Department of Primary Industries | 2019