Backyard Chicken basics: the Nowra Poultry Club Chicken 101 series

The Nowra Poultry Club’s Chicken Basics 101 series was produced in response to the many people taking up backyard poultry keeping for the first time during COVID19 and needing basic information on managing chickens. The series is available on the Club's resources website at https://nowrapoultryclub.wordpress.com/chicken-basics-101-series/.  The sheets are also available as pdfs for download from https://tinyurl.com/NPC-ChickenBasics

The information sheets in the series are:

• 101 The Very Basics: Space and security, laying ages & laying months
• 102 Laying Basics: Light and length of day; moulting, diet and water
• 103 Chicken Flocks: Starting out in the first year; second & subsequent years
• 104 Chicken Housing: Space requirements; laying boxes; design; fox proofing
• 105 Chicken Feeding: Age appropriate feeding; grit; water; scraps & treats
• 106 The Chicken: Emotions and social relationships; intelligence
• 107 Chicken vs Chicken: Hybrid chickens vs exhibition chickens
• 108 Chicken Health Basics: What to look for; how to avoid health problems
• 109 Chicken Additions: The pecking order; quarantine; introducing; some no nos
• 110 Chicken Broodiness: Hens and broodiness; fertile eggs; managing the broody hen
• 111 The Rooster: A rooster's life; protecting the flock; rooster to hen ratio
• 112 Beyond the Egg: Gardening, kitchen scraps; wellbeing; pets