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Here are some links for you to explore.  If you know of any great links, particularly Belgian Bantam sites, please let us know and we will include them here.  If any Belgian Club members would like their own sites 
listed please contact Irene with the details.

Updated 20-07-2008

AUSTRALIAN LINKS

Links to some good "Aussie" sites   http://www.webone.com.au/~paleface/links.html  This is an index linking to some Australian poultry sites. 

The Chook Shed  http://www.webone.com.au/~greggles   An excellent Australian site, with a wide range of pictures and information on all things "chook".  Also has a Breeder's Directory and links to other sites. 

There has been a new breeders directory established by Lindsay Steele. The Australian Poultry Breeders Directory can be found at http://www.ozbreeders.com  It doesn't have that much on it as yet, but can only grow with our help.  This directory will allow you to load a lot more information about your birds and you can make changes to your listing at any time.  It is also secure in that all your contact details are not published and it is up to you to decide who has access to them. 

Australian Online Poultry Breeders Directory http://insight.iinet.net.au/breeders/  Set up with various categories to make it easy to register and easy to find the birds you are looking for.  Has breeders from all over Australia registered. THIS SITE DOES NOT APPEAR TO OPERATE ANYMORE.  IT HAS NOT BEEN AVAILABLE FOR CHANGES TO CONTENT FOR SEVERAL YEARS.  HOWEVER, THERE IS STILL VALUABLE INFORMATION TO BE FOUND ON IT EVEN IF MOST OF IT IS PROBABLY NOW WAY OUT OF DATE.

Bellsouth  http://www.bellsouth.com.au Australian poultry suppliers, located in Victoria. They say their site contains the largest range of poultry equipment and information on the web. It is certainly comprehensive, having all sorts of equipment, medications, books, technical bulletins, etc and a full price list for all items available.

Multiquip  http://www.multiquip.com.au  Australian poultry suppliers, located near Sydney in NSW.  They have a complete range of products and equipment available, including several brands of incubators, brooders, accessories and a range of books published by Brinsea.

 Poultry breeders and poultry clubs should have a look at The Pet Directory  www.pet.directory.com.au in the Farm Animals section.  Add a free listing there as a breeder or pop one in for your poultry club. Then have a look through the rest of the information they provide.  There is definitely something there for everyone, no matter what type or size of animals your prefer.  

VARIOUS BELGIAN CLUB MEMBERS 
ALSO HAVE THEIR OWN WEBSITES

Allan Preston has his site up and running.  It is called Nalla Belgian Barbu d'Uccle Bantams and can be found at http://home.iprimus.com.au/nalla/index.html 

Karen Hall, one of our Club members, has an extremely informative site which includes en enormous amount of information about the genetics of the Belgian bantams. There are also heaps of photos to illustrate her articles. Go to http://home.ezweb.com.au/~kazballa/belgians/index.htm 

Karen Hall also has a second website devoted entirely to Poultry Genetics.  It has been designed for exhibition breeders of domestic fowl to help with understanding genetics of chicken breeds and varieties.  Go to  http://home.ezweb.com.au/~kazballea/genetics/default.html

Peta Rogers another of our Club members (from Tasmania) has just launched her website.  Go to http://tassiefav.googlepages.com to have a look.

Mark Dobson has just set up a new website showing the range of poultry cages he has been building for his own use and is now offering for sale.  Go to  www.poultrypickins.com.au  to have a look at the various designs and prices.

Sebastion James has just launched is new website.  It is dedicated to Polish and Belgians.  Go to
www.freewebs.com/polishchooks <http://www.freewebs.com/polishchooks>

OTHER CLUBS

The British Belgian Bantam Club  http://www.jatman.co.uk/belgians  now has their own website.  It has quite a lot of information about the Club and the birds and is well worth a look.  
They also have a forum for discussions or questions about the birds.  

ZOBK   http://www.homepages.hetnet.nl/~zobk/enindex.html   The ZOBK is a Netherlands based Club catering for all breeds of rare true bantams which originated in Belgium.  Has some very good articles and photos.

Belgian Bearded d'Anvers Club of America http://danverclub.blogspot.com/  This website is just being set up, so stay tuned to see how it progresses.

Belgian d'Uccle Bantams and Booted Bantam Club  http://www.belgianduccle.org  This is the official site of the American Club and is well worth a look.

The Barbu de Watermael Club of America has just been formed.  It is an  organization dedicated to creating de Watermael in the U.S. and Canada and maintaining genetically diverse flocks along with the  keeping, breeding and exhibiting of de Watermael.  They don't have a website as yet but do have a chat room with information, articles and photographs operating at http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/BWCA   

OVERSEAS SITES 

There is a brilliant German site located at http://www.antwerpener-bartzwerge.de   If you click on Bildergalerie that will take you to the picture gallery.  The birds are superb, and in colours we can only dream about.  Unfortunately all the text is in German, but maybe your computer can translate enough of it to make some sense of the other pages.  The photos alone are worth a look.

Christian Miniot has a good site with lots of photos.  Unfortunately the text is in French, but it is still  worth a look.  It is found at  http://monsite.wanadoo.fr/uccle 

Here is one I've just received, which is well worth a look.  It is a private American site for the d'Anvers called Rancho Rosita and has some lovely photos and other bits and pieces on it.  
Go to http://www.belgiandanver.com 

Jean Michael Beaugendre has created a discussion forum for bantams of all types.  Even though it is in French it is quite interesting and has some good photos on it.  It can be found at  www.plumage.fr

Poultry Genetics for the Non professional.  This site is maintained by the Sellers family of Brookings, South Dakota. It contains an enormous amount of information.  The purpose of this site is to promote and facilitate poultry keeping through the understanding of poultry genetics. Hopefully, poultry enthusiasts will find this site useful.  Go to http://marsa_sellers.tripod.com/geneticspages/page0.html 

The Association for the promotion of Belgian poultry breeds has some good pages.  Go to
http://users.pandora.be/jaak.rousseau/english%20version/krielen/belgische_kriel.htm and follow the links to the appropriate pages.

Chickenbreeds  http://home.hetnet.nl/~kippenrassen/engels/indexe.htm.  This is Joke Osinga's site from the Netherlands. Has a lot of information on various breeds and some very good photos.

Feathersite  http://www.cyborganic.net/People/feathersite/Poultry/BRKPoultryPage.html  This is a good site to browse through, no matter what type of poultry you are interested in.  It is a very large, well established site with a bit of everything - photos, articles, books, technical information on all types of poultry, waterfowl, swans, guinea fowl, pheasants, etc.  It also has links to many other good poultry sites.

Post mortem examination  http://www.angelfire.com/ar2/rojo1/post.html   This site contains a set of step by step instructions, with colour photos, on how to conduct a full post mortem. It shows what to look for in all major organs in order to determine what diseases may be present and what may have caused the death of the bird. Not for the faint hearted!

The Bantam Roost  http://www.geocities.com/bantamroost/bantams.html  This is an American site run by Dick Staie and Terry Towe which has many photos of d'Uccle bantams, including some colours we don't have in Australia.  There are also nine good articles relating to breeding Belgian Bantams.  Also features a lot of links to various other sites, including a whole section on "chicken tractors".

The Coop  http://www.the-coop.org/index  Another quite comprehensive American site with a little bit of everything for the poultry fancier. 

Shagbark Bantams http://www.shagbarkbantams.com/  This is another good American site with a lot of photos of Belgian Bantams.

The stepping off place into the online world of poultry  http://www.cyborganic.net/People/feathersite/Poultry/BRKPoultrySites.html   These links have been set up by Feathersite. The index alone is 24 pages long!  It covers all types of poultry from all over the world - everything from full scale commercial to small back yard fanciers.  A very good place to start if you are looking for information.

University of Illinois, Extension Service Incubation and Embryology Resources  http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/eggs/res26-candling.html   This is one of the many poultry extension sites available through various American Universities. It contains some very useful information on handling and hatching eggs, types of incubators, brooding chickens,  breeds of fowl, and much more. It is very informative and well worth a look.

Chicken Diseases    http://www.antwifarms.com/chickendiseases.html More information on poultry diseases than you would hopefully ever need.  Whatever the problem the solution can be found here - just keep looking!

Merck Veterinary Manual  http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp  This is a comprehensive veterinary manual for all types of animals, not just poultry.  Well worth a look if you have any medical problems. It has just been updated and now has a host of coloured photos as well.

The A-Z Poultry Disease Index http://members.tripod.com/poultryworld/dis_dir.htm  This is an A-Z list of poultry diseases.  If you know what disease you are looking for there is a search engine, otherwise you can just browse the pages.  I gives a short resume of each disease.  Handy if you are not sure what you are looking for as it doesn't take that long to get through the whole thing.

Everything Chickens (from USA) These people have some incredible items available for sale. 
Everything Chickens carries the largest selection of chicken and rooster related collectibles & gift items on the internet. Over 200 pages of the finest kitchens items, household accessories, toys, games, afghan throws, lamps, tables, figurines, candles and much more!  This business has been taken over by Olas Manns and they are now are found at http://www.everything-chickens.com or you can contact Olas direct on olas@everything-chickens.com or sales@everything-chicken.com 

HERE ARE SOME SITES THAT WILL TRANSLATE 
VARIOUS LANGUAGES INTO ENGLISH

Free language translation  http://www.freetranslation.com

Here is the babelfish which is probably the most used one.
http://babelfish.altavista.com

This one you have to scroll a fair way down but it does seem to have a heap of links to all sorts of languages, starting at A and working through to Z
http://www.voyagesprintemps.com/translate-english-into-arabic-free/

This one is similar - just keep scrolling down until you find the language you want
http://vwlewc0f.nm.ru/map.html

Finally - this one looks like it might work well for French
http://www.bonjour.com/french_dictionary.htm

IF ANY OF THESE LINKS ARE NO LONGER WORKING PLEASE NOTIFY THE CLUB SECRETARY AT channan@tpgi.com.au 

   Original Web design, graphic art and manufacture by
   Stephen Miller.
 

Said the first little chick, with a wiggle and a squirm,

I wish I had a nice fat worm.

Said the second little chick, with a giggle and a squeal.

I wish I had some fine yellow meal.

Said the old mother hen, from the green cabbage patch,

If you really want it, then get out and scratch!

Please direct enquiries to the Secretary: (Mrs) Irene Hannan
"Mountain View", 930 Caparra Road,
Caparra, via Wingham, NSW 2429
 Telephone:  (02)  65507295  
Email: channan@tpgi.com.au 

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