Preparing to keep chickens: Your guide to safe housing, disease prevention and chicken welfare

Preparing to keep chickens: Your guide to safe housing, disease prevention and chicken welfare is now available online. This guide is a handy resource for anyone who keeps poultry as a hobby or as pets. It provides suggestions on creating a safe setup for poultry and protecting them from predators, pests and disease.

 

University of Nottingham project team

Professor Sarah Jewitt, School of Geography University of Nottingham (project lead)
Michael Clark School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
Stephen Dunham School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
Sol Elliott School of Veterinary Medicine and Science
Emma McClaughlin School of English
Matthew Smallman-Raynor School of Geography
Rachael Tarlinton School of Veterinary Medicine and Science

Acknowledgements

We would like to express our gratitude to the (anonymised) research participants whose ideas and suggestions informed the development of this booklet and who kindly gave their time to get involved in co-producing it. We greatly appreciate their wisdom, enthusiastic support and dedication to poultry health and welfare. The project was supported by Higher Education Innovation Funding through a University of Nottingham Faculty Internal Funding award.