| OSTRICH | Big bird still farmed for its feathers |
| MINK | Small stoat-like animal farmed for its fur (4) |
| HATCHLING | Young bird still in the nest (9) |
| NESTLING | What is a young bird still in the nest (8) |
| EIDER | Breed of duck revered for its feathers |
| UNHATCHED | Like birds still in their shells |
| POULT | From "chick", a word for a young domestic fowl being farmed for feathers, fattened as food or raised for eggs; or, a chicken generally (5) |
| EMU | Foreign bird, farmed for eggs, meat, feathers etc . ... in the Mumbles (3) |
| OYSTERS | Farmed for food or their pearls, molluscs with shucks for shells (7) |
| MINKS | Animals farmed for their fur |
| POULTRY | Birds farmed for food (7) |
| STERLET | Small sturgeon farmed for flesh and caviar (7) |
| CASHCROP | Plant farmed for sale rather than subsistence |
| EMUS | World's second largest birds, farmed for their meat, oil and leather |
| PLUCK | To strip a bird of its feathers (5) |
| MARABOU | An adjutant bird or its feathers (7) |
| PREEN | Groom, as a bird does to its feathers |
| ROUSE | From a term for a hawk's act of erecting/shaking its feathers, a word used to mean awaken, excite, kindle, provoke, put into action or stir up (5) |
| JAY | Bird that, surprisingly, doesn't have any blue pigments in its feathers |
| KEEPDOWN | Duck needs to retain its feathers |
