People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately...
Welcome to the Poultry task force of WikiProject Birds. This is a group of Wikipedians working together to increase coverage of domestic poultry related topics and work to improve articles that fall within our common interests. Join and begin discussing it with us. Our goal is to see the coverage of poultry breeds, diseases, exhibition, and more improve on Wikipedia and bring further information on poultry to Wikipedia; if this is something you also think is an admirable goal, then you'll fit right in.
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Popular pages: A bot-generated list of pageviews, useful for focused cleanup of frequently viewed articles.
The poultry task force aims to make Wikipedia a reliable, neutral source of information on poultry and bring this information to a platform where it is easily accessed by the public. We strive to cooperate together to improve all topics that concern poultry, from breeds and species to diseases, poultry exhibition, usage in cooking, history of domestication and numerous other topics. The scope is vast, so the sooner we get to work the better.
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Participants
You can join this project by adding your name on the participants list and placing the {{User WikiProject Poultry}} template on your user page.
Add your name here. Please place new entries at the bottom of the list.
Mr. Guye (talk· contribs) Joining to help maintain a crucial subject. I'm a part of many WikiProjects, so my actions in this project may be infrequent. 02:56, 4 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
To invite editors to join the project, add the following to a new section on user talk pages: {{subst:WikiProject Poultry invitation}}, which automatically produces the following, (including the talk page section header, the recipient's name and your signature):
Hello, Poultry task force. You are invited to join the poultry task force. Check out the project at WP:POULTRY and feel free to join if interested. ~~~~
Archive.org has many old poultry publications available.
Feathersite is useful for adding in external links if you don't have an image for a poultry breed
DAD-IS, FAO's list of animal breeds, is useful for confirming obscure breeds and species are real.
Books
Australian Poultry Standard, 2nd edition, published by Victorian Poultry Fanciers Association (Where to find?: Available from most Australian libraries, can be purchased from PSB&EV)
American Standard of Perfection, 2010 Edition, published by American Poultry Association (Where to find?: Available to purchase from American Poultry Association. 1910 edition available online from Archive.org)
British Poultry Standard, 2008 edition, published by Blackwell Publishing (Where to find?: Available to purchase from Poultry Club of Great Britain. Part of it is on google books as a free preview here)
