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Open Directory - Science: Agriculture: Animals: Birds: Poultry: Chickens
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  • Adding Amprolium to Chicken Feed - Outlines research into whether including this antibiotic in their food affects weight gain in broiler chicks.
  • Amber Waves Show Silkies - Articles on raising silkie chickens.
  • Avian Embryo - 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.
  • Bantams - University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension publication. [PDF]
  • Best Breeds of Chickens - Mississippi State University Extension Service discussion on the selection of a particular breed for a home flock.
  • Chicken House Plans - Provides information on building your own mobile or static coop. Includes articles, videos and audio clips.
  • Chicken Production - Collection of links to research materials on production chicken husbandry including news, diseases, economics, reproduction, management, genetics, housing, and nutrition.
  • Chicken Scientific Name and Scientific Names of Poultry Species - A list of the scientific names of the domestic chicken, as well as other common poultry species.
  • Chickscope - A project to study chicken embryo development developed by educators, researchers, and teachers.
  • Cyndilou's Chicken Flock: A Place about Chickens - Information about chickens, their care, coops, breeds, chick care and brooder area, chicken pictures, and links.
  • DIY Chicken Coop Plans - Offers an ebook with information on raising chickens and building a chicken coop.
  • For the Love of Chickens - A longtime chicken fancier provides information for chicken enthusiasts. Includes tips on care, feeding, fitting and showing chickens.
  • Getting Started in Game Fowl Breeding - Provides information on game chicken breeding. Includes some readers' comments.
  • Handbook on Poultry Diseases - Information to assist veterinarians, students, and avian health professionals to diagnose, treat and prevent diseases in poultry flocks.
  • Hatching Quality Chicks - 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. [PDF]
  • Incubation and Embryology Resources - University of Illinois Extension research project with varied information on subjects related to breeding, incubating, hatching, and raising chicks.
  • Kasturi: Poultry - Provides hatchery, layer and broiler business management software for the poultry industry allowing control over production and performance details, stock levels and inventory management.
  • Keeping Chickens at Home Blog - Personal journal with pictures and video showing beginners how to keep chickens at home.
  • Kemp's Koops - 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.
  • Longtail Fowl and Longcrowers of the World - Articles, information, and pictures of ornamental longtail fowl in many breeds.
  • Pekin Bantams - Articles, forum, and links for those raising bantams.
  • Perfect Poultry - Feeders, drinkers, incubators, and chicken care information.
  • Pocket Flocks - Bantam chicken breeding, networking, and care information and links to many resources.
  • Poultry Management System - Providers of poultry management software for both egg and meat producing flocks.
  • Rosecomb Bantam Federation - Information on this organisation, the rosecomb breed standard, meetings, members and various articles on rosecombs.
  • Scots Dumpy Genetics - Provides information on the history of this short legged breed which is known as Krueper in continental Europe.
  • The Dutch Bantam Site - Provides information for fanciers of the breed including articles, photographs and a discussion board.
  • The Easy Chicken - Plenty of helpful information to help a beginner set up a poultry enterprise.
  • The Garden Coop - Chicken coop plans and advice for do-it-yourself backyard poultry keepers including both walk-in and mobile style coops. FAQ and free plan previews.
  • The Life Cycle of the Chicken - 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.
  • The Urban Chicken - Mobile Register, Alabama news, articles on chicken care and keeping and on laws regarding backyard flocks. Has how to build a chicken ark.
  • Wikipedia entry on Raising Chickens - Biology, history, and information concerning the chicken and its care.
  • poultryOne Guide to Raising Chickens - Articles about raising poultry, and a forum.
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