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Chicken Care & Health

This Chicken Care & Health section provides essential guidance for keeping backyard and commercial poultry healthy.
It covers everything from recognizing common illnesses and parasites to understanding which vaccines your flock needs. You’ll find practical advice on spotting symptoms, making accurate diagnoses, and applying effective treatments for issues like respiratory infections, digestive problems, and external pests such as mites and lice.

Alongside treatment information, this section emphasizes prevention—offering vaccination schedules, parasite control tips, and biosecurity measures to reduce the risk of disease. Whether you’re new to chicken keeping or have years of experience, it’s a valuable resource for protecting your flock’s health, maintaining productivity, and ensuring proper medical care year-round.

How to Clip a Chicken’s Wings
Chicken Care & Health

How to Clip a Chicken’s Wings

Mating Trauma in Chickens: Fainting and Deaths Explained
Chicken Care & Health | Flock Management

Mating Trauma in Chickens: Fainting and Deaths Explained

A chicken roaming in a dust bath
Chicken Care & Health | Chicken Psychology and Mental Health

Why Do Chickens Need Dust Bath?

Two backyard chickens roaming
Chicken Psychology and Mental Health | Chicken Care & Health

How far will a chicken roam? Do the stay close to home?

One of my chickens has worms
Chicken Care & Health

How to tell if your chicken has worms (hint: not only diarrhea)

Chicken with no feathers on the neck
Chicken Care & Health | Chicken Psychology and Mental Health

Here are the reasons why you chickens are pecking each others feathers out

Honking chicken with op beak
Chicken Care & Health

Chicken illnesses with respiratory symptoms

Chickens have mental health as the really are quite smart
Chicken Care & Health

The Chicken Poop Guide: Normal or Sick? Toxic or Fertilizer?

Chicken with no feathers on the neck
Chicken Care & Health

Chickens Sneezing? Here’s The List of Causes and Treatment

Honking chicken with op beak
Chicken Care & Health

Here’s Why Your Chickens Keep Yawning

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