Australian Poultry Standards

It is published by Victorian Poultry Fanciers Association, the peak body for poultry in Victoria and agreed to by all other state peak bodies.

[2][3] Australia has no national peak body for poultry, relying on state bodies and national breed clubs.

The state bodies who are party to the standards are as follows (None of the mainland territories have a statewide poultry society) The Australian Poultry Standard classifies all chicken breeds as either hard feather or soft feather, and then further divides them into the bantam or standard size.

Ducks are divided into two classes, bantam or standard size, and all turkeys, geese and guinea fowl have only one class each.

In the 1940s and earlier, other publications in Australia about poultry, such as Hadlingtons,[4] did have some parts devoted to aspects of showing birds, were less oriented towards show standards, and more detailed about general management of poultry, in line with his earliest publication.