Chicken coops plans

Want to talk to other folks who are interested in poultry?

To join the DOM_BIRD list go to http://groups.google.com/group/dom_bird?hl=en.

To join the Rare Poultry Breeds list, send a blank e-mail to RarePoultryBreeds-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To join the Rare Poultry Breeders2 list, send a blank e-mail to RarePoultryBreeders2-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To join the Rare Heritage Turkey list, send a blank e-mail to RareHeritageTurkey-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Here’s the Link for the Rare_Chickens list at Yahoo.

Here’s where to go if you want to Meet Up with other keepers of pet chickens.

The Happy Hen House has a forum on keeping chickens, aimed at those with yard flocks or pets, not showing.

If you have a pet chicken living in the house, you may want to join the House Chickens list. To do so, send a blank e-mail to housechickens-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

If you’re interested in particular breeds, go check out the groups at yahoo.com — they have lists for many breeds.

Another list where they talk about poultry is called just that: poultry. To subscribe to poultry, send an empty message to poultry-subscribe@makelist.com

I also hang out on the poultry boards on America Online. (Well, I used to. Theaol browser was so annoying that once I started using Netscape I hardly ever gothere anymore.) If you have that access use keyword Pet Care. There are Poultry,Game Bird, and Ratite folders in the Farm Animals folder.

The Poultry Connection runs an online auction of birds, eggs and related things at eggbid.com.

Hey, over there across the pond — here’s Eggschange: TheUK’s online poultry and smallholding auction site.

And here’s the Egg Swapper’s Board, if you’re interested in trading eggs with someone at a distance.

How about a mailing list on hatching techniques?

The TrueBantam Message Board isdedicated to those breeds, such as Sebrights and Japanese, that only exist as bantams.

You can now join a mailing list on Pastured Poultry.

For young fanciers, here are the message boards for Poultry Youth of America. And they also have an auction.