Poultry Agskills (book)

From Poultry Hub

Poultry Agskills provides a basic guide to some of the skills and practices of poultry production. The book contains step-by-step instructions, diagrams, and full-colour pictures. Some of the skills included are: breed, rear or buy poultry, provide housing, collect and handle eggs, feed poultry and maintain poultry health.

Published in 2008, Poultry Agskills is 76 A4 colour pages. Visit the NSW DPI website to order a copy (AUD27.00)

Table of contents:

• 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

See also

• General tips for small scale poultry production
• Building the Poultry Penthouse (book)
• Alternative poultry production systems
• Optimising liveability of free-range layers
• References
• Resources
• Education and training

External links

• International Poultry Breeders Associationis an online resource developed by the International Poultry Breeders Association, which was established to give poultry breeders of all breeds of feathered fowl a way of organising and maintaining a record of ancestral breeding.
• Chookyard - independently operated forum for poultry growers independent industry forum - more than just gabble.
• NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) provides support to the poultry industries through the provision of extension officers, research scientists, diagnostic laboratories, publications, poultry keeping courses and regulatory services.