Poultry Supplies

Poultry supplies are essential to breeders, hobbyists, smallholders, and complete beginners to poultry keeping. Poultry books on poultry keeping, poultry breeds, poultry health, and poultry standards serve as a useful resource. Poultry supplies including incubators, hen houses, drinkers, feeders, cages, and pens are also important to all levels of poultry keepers. Poultry healthcare supplies like vitamins, natural supplements, vaccines, antibiotics, wormers, and more are also available from poultry suppliers. Poultry grooming tools are essential for keepers involved in poultry show and competitions.

Poultry Supplies and Books

The Poultry Site

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/

The Poultry Site is devoted solely to poultry and their good health and welfare. Besides maintaining an extensive Quick Disease Guide, Poultry Industry Business Directory, and discussion forums, the Poultry Site also sells a range of bird housing including hen coops, duck and goose arks, nest boxes, and poultry crates. You can also find poultry drinkers, and poultry feeders on the Poultry Site. Books on poultry keeping, poultry nutrition, and poultry welfare are also on offer.

The Farmers Mailbox

http://www.fmb.com.au/index1.html

The Farmers Mailbox is a family-owned company that’s been operating for 13 years. The company supplies farmers throughout Australia with a large range of livestock and smallholding gear. The Farmers Mailbox sells poultry leg bands, feeders and drinkers. The company also sells books on poultry keeping and building chicken coops.

McMurray Hatchery

http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/

McMurray Hatchery is the largest rare breed hatchery. It was started by Murray McMurray in 1917, when he started selling chicks to local farmers and hobbyists. The operation has now grown into a state-of-the-art hatching center in Iowa, USA. The hatchery offers information on hatching and poultry breeding. The hatchery also sells drinkers, feeders, incubators, cages and pens, as well as pesticides and disinfectants. McMurray Hatchery also maintains an extensive poultry bookstore.

Wells Poultry

http://www.chicken-house.co.uk/

Wells Poultry is a poultry supply shop located in Wales. The company has an extensive online shop that caters to the UK, Europe, and beyond. Well Poultry offers a wide variety of poultry supplies and chicken coops. Beyond poultry housing, nest boxes, electrical fencing, and automatic poultry door openers, Wells Poultry sells poultry keeping supplies including, but not limited to, cleaning products, feeders, drinkers, leg rings, dummy eggs, incubators, heat lamps, poultry books, and smallholding books.

Home2Roost

A range of chicken supplies, chicken products and chicken accessories from one of the UK’s (Hampshire) most prominent online pet shop’s for inexpensive well made pet products.

http://www.home2roost.co.uk/Bird/Chicken

W. A. Poultry Equipment

http://www.wapoultryequipment.com/

W. A. Poultry Equipment is a family-owned manufacturer and retailer of poultry supplies. The facilities and shop are located in Baldivis, which is located 60 kilometers south of Perth. The products are distributed via the company’s retail shop and mail order system. The mail order catalogue can be downloaded online and delivery is offered throughout Australia. The company offers incubators, brooders, drinkers, feeders, leg rings, hen houses, chicken coops, poultry books, thermometers, thermostats, electrical fencing, netting, and other poultry supplies.

Farmstock

http://www.farmstock.com.au/Classifieds/Poultry/Supplies/

Farmstock is an Australian classifieds website dedicated to farming and farm supplies. Farmstock’s Poultry Equipment and Supplies sections hosts community posts on poultry supplies, books, and breeds for sale and for trade.

Chooknet

http://chooknet.com.au/

Chooknet is an Australian poultry community classifieds website dedicated to poultry breeds and poultry equipment. For sale and for trade listings offer poultry breeds, as well as poultry equipment.

The Poultry Page

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKHatcheries.html#supp

The Poultry Page is a listing of hatcheries and poultry equipment suppliers. Contact information and details are listed for poultry suppliers throughout the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia, and Europe.

Stromberg’s

http://www.strombergschickens.com/

Stromberg’s offers the largest selection of books, supplies and equipment for the breeding, rearing and management of poultry in North America. Stromberg’s offers over 200 breeds and varieties of birds as eggs, chicks or adult birds. Supplies on offer include hen houses, nests, cages, leg bands, incubators, brooders, drinkers, feeders, caponizing kits, netting, poultry scales, poultry medicine and vaccinations, thermometers and thermostats and much more. Supplies can be browsed online or via the catalogue. The company offers deliveries across the United States and Canada.

Poultry Book Specialists

Gold Cockerel Books

http://goldcockerelbooks.co.uk/

The Gold Cockerel book series is authored by Michael Roberts and other poultry specialists. Michael Roberts created the Domestic Fowl Trust in 1976 in England, and then published his first book in the Gold Cockerel Series in 1983. There are 26 titles in the Gold Cockerel Series as of 2009.

Gold Cockerel’s books on poultry include 21st Century Poultry Breeding, Bantams in Colour, British Large Fowl, Chickens at Home, Incubation at Home, Making Mobile Hen Houses, Modern Free Range, Poultry and Waterfowl Problems, and Poultry House Construction.

Gold Cockerel’s books on waterfowl include Domestic Duck and Geese in Colour, Ducks & Geese at Home, and Wildfowl at Home.

Gold Cockerel’s books on ornamental pheasants and game bird include Modern Partridge Farming, Modern Pheasant Rearing, and Ornamental Pheasants for Beginners.

Other poultry books from Gold Cockerel include Turkeys at Home; Guinea Fowl Past and Present; Peacocks Past and Present; Quail Past and Present; Pigeons, Doves and Dovecotes; and Modern Vermin Control.

Gold Cockerel Books offers free UK shipping, £1 shipping for Europe, and £2 shipping worldwide.

Online Bookstores

• Amazon.com [1]
• Amazon.co.uk [2]
• Barnes & Noble [3]
• Blackwell [4]
• Borders.com [5]
• Borders.com.au [6]
• Waterstone’s [7]
• WHSmith [8]

These online bookstores offer a wide range of of books on poultry keeping, building chicken coops, poultry breeding, smallholding, poultry breeds, poultry health, and much more. Most of these online bookstores ship within their own respective countries as well to worldwide locations.

Hen House Specialists

Chicken Coops Direct

http://www.chickencoopsdirect.com/

Chicken Coops Direct is family-owned company in Dorset, England that stocks and ships chicken coops. Chicken Coops Direct delivers within England, Wales and Scotland. They sell hen houses, chicken coops, chicken runs, and chicken arks. They also offer chicken coops made from recycled materials.

Harrod Horticultural

http://www.harrodhorticultural.com/

Harrod Horticultural is a website dedicated to gardening and greenhouse equipment. The company also stocks and sells poultry cages, poultry houses, and poultry nets that are perfectly suited for the garden. Harrod Horticultural is located in Suffolk, England, and ships to all UK addresses.

Poultry Incubator Specialists

Top Knot Poultry Supplies

http://www.tkpoultrysupplies.com.au/

Located in Victoria, Australia, Top Knot Poultry Supplies is exclusive importer and distributor for Brinsea Incubation Products throughout Australia. Top Knot Poultry Supplies specializes in incubation and brooding equipment for parrots, poultry, and reptiles.

MultiQuip

http://www.multiquip.com.au/index2.php

Multiquip, founded 1984, first invented and produced litter machines which removed chicken litter from poultry sheds. Now various types of poultry equipment for both the commercial and hobby market are produced by the company. Multiquip’s online retail site offers industrial incubators, smaller capacity incubators, egg hatchers, poultry brooders, thermometers, egg trays, fertility testers, feeders, drinkers, disinfectants, egg washing equipment, and much more. Multiquip is located in New South Wales, Australia. The company offers delivery throughout Australia and international shipping.

See also

• Fancy poultry breeds
• Nutrient requirements of poultry
• Raising Backyard Chicken
• Chicken Coops
• Poultry Association
• Poultry Books
• Getting started in free range poultry (book)
• Poultry Agskills (book)
• Building the Poultry Penthouse (book)
• Keeping Chickens – An Australian Guide (book)
• Family Poultry Training Course
• General tips for small scale poultry production