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Online Poultry Resources


It would be impossible to provide a comprehensive listing of all poultry-related resources on the Internet, but the links below point to some of the ones the Chickscope staff has found interesting or useful. For further information, try searching one of the general-purpose search engines such as Altavista, Infoseek, or Yahoo!.

The Chickscope staff makes no guarantees about the suitability of this material for any purposes. Links may have expired, or may point to material unsuitable for certain people. The content of the pages pointed to by these hyperlinks is wholly out of the control of the Chickscope project. The categories of links are presented in no particular order.

Breeds of Poultry

Both FeatherSite and Oklahoma State are excellent complements to Chickscope's Standard Varieties of Chickens paper.
FeatherSite - The Poultry Page
Poultry Breeds at Oklahoma State.
January 1997 Smithsonian Magazine - Has nice photos.

Incubators, Equipment, and Hatcheries

Constructing incubators: complements the instructions found in Egg To Chick
Constructing a Styrofoam Incubator
Constructing a Plywood Incubator
An Incubator from a Refrigerator
FeatherSite Homemade Incubator #1
Another Cobbled-together Incubator
Equipment sources and hatcheries
FeatherSite's Equipment & Hatchery list

Poultry Raising

Groups with experience raising chickens non-commercially at home or in schools.
Chicken- Kissing 101: A case-study in raising chickens in a suburban back-yard.
Fowl Ideas From School Science

Avian Embryology and Science

General information on embryology.
Avian Embryology - very similar to Egg to Chick, but with additional information
Avian Embryology Terms - a good small glossary

For Further Reading...

Lists of references
Avian Embryo References - a small list of references
FeatherSite's BookPage
TAMU Poultry Science WWW - Virtual Library
Poultry Publications - Need Adobe Acrobat/PDF reader.
Links of links of links...
FeatherSite's List of Links
The Poultry Ring - hop on the ring and ride it around

Poultry Science Departments, Poultry Societies, Etc.

Poultry science and agriculture departments.
Poultry Breeds at Oklahoma State
Mississippi State University Poultry Science Department
Poultry associations - often contains sources of general information.
Poultry Society of America - good technical information here.
American Poultry Association
Breed Clubs at FeatherSite

Chicken Jokes and Chicken Humor

The dumbest chicken jokes around, and other famous birds of a feather.
Chicken Jokes, A Tidbit of Chicken Humor
Zehnder's Chicken Jokes Page

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