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How To Keep Your Chickens Healthy –
The first step to keeping your chickens healthy is keep their housing clean and mite free. Make sure that you do not use hay to line their coop, and use mite-free straw instead, as this will keep mites to a minimum. Also, be sure that the coop is well ventilated and not too warm or cold. A little temperature fluctuation is fine, but extremes in temperatures can cause them to become suspect to illnesses.
Second, be sure to use common sense if one chicken begins to “just look different” than the rest of the flock. Usually, if one begins to act different than the rest, there is cause to worry and this chicken should be isolated IMMEDIATELY! You should then contact your vet and get the bird treatment straight away. Chicken diseases are easily spread, and an entire flock can become infected soon after the first chicken begins to show signs of sickness.
Third, when you do suspect that a chicken is unwell, be sure to look for symptoms such as uneven breathing, irritated or watery eyes, discharge around the eyes and beak, or scaly, red patches of skin. There are medications that are easily obtainable over the counter usually sold at the same place where you buy your feed, and it is helpful to be able to describe symptoms to someone who is knowledgeable in regards to chicken care.
Hopefully this article is helpful to you in keeping your chickens happy and healthy. Just be very sure to remember that while chickens are on the whole a very resiliant animal, when they become ill it very important that you react very quickly, as disease progression in chickens happens extrodinarily swift!
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