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.

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

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