Your Free Chookie Care Guide
Thank you for joining our feather-friendly family!
Your exclusive Chookie Care Guide 2026 is ready for download. Inside you’ll find many jam-packed pages covering everything from setting up a cosy coop to troubleshooting common hen ailments – and so much more.
Each month or so we are updating so it will be the most comprehensive Chookie Care Guide ever & by later 2026 will have a comprehensive dedicated chookie care guide page where every question you have is answered!
What’s Inside Your Guide
This Chooky Care Guide serves as a comprehensive, practical manual for backyard chicken owners, focusing on the holistic health and maintenance of their flocks. Ultimately, the guide aims to correct online misinformation by providing reliable, actionable support for chooky caregivers.
- How to Health Check a Chook
- What to do each weather season
- Top 3 Must’s
- Illnesses & Injuries
- All about Combs & Poos & Crops
- All about Googs
- Best Feed
- Boredom Busters
- Nutritional Advice
- & much more to come!
What can I do next?
Support Our Rescue Work
Every Chookie Care Guide is free, but raising happy, healthy hens takes resources. If you can, please consider making a one-off or recurring donation to help us:
- Provide veterinary care and emergency treatment
- Build and maintain safe hen sanctuaries
- Run community education programs
Adopt gorgeous battery hens!
- Save their lives
- Give them the life they deserve
- Only 3 minutes to apply online
- Be on our exclusive Mother Clucker’s list for early adoption reservations
- Bragging rights as a Mother Clucker!
Volunteer & Get Involved
From remote investigations for great vets to running kids workshops about chookies to adoption days, there’s a role for every skill:
- Chookie Village Care – an hour or two each week
- Maintenance Crew – be part of the upkeep and cleaning
- Event support – adoption days or other events
- Foster care – for disabled hens
- Advocacy – help spread our message and advocate for happy healthy hens!
- Marketing, PR, Digital – help create, design and promote our work
- Administration – assist in managing emails, paperwork and organisation