Increasing building of individual dwelling-houses and farmsteads is in villages and cities, garden-plots of townspeople and constantly growing prices and demand on foodstuffs assist the increase of interest of both rural and municipal population to breeding of domestic animals and, foremost, birds.Ostriches are the largest unflying birds on Earth. Presently all greater attention they attract not as exotic bird, and as an agricultural object for maintenance and breeding in the personal economy. On ostrich farms they are conducted for the receipt of high-quality meat, feathers and hide. For the effective breeding and growing of ostriches it is necessary to know their basic biological, natural and practical features, and also features of feeding and maintenance.