Posts Tagged ‘chicken ailments’
Handling Bumblefoot in Chickens
Chickens are sweet, lively, and often an excellent addition to any backyard, farm, or ranch with the space and resources to care for them. While chickens are resilient and mostly self-sufficient creatures, they are not immune to several medical and physical conditions. One of the most common is known as bumblefoot. While not every chicken…
Read MoreCommon Skin and Feather Ailments in Chickens
You may have noticed that chickens aren’t just on the farm anymore! What began as a “trend” to keep chickens in backyards and gardens has turned into a full-fledged lifestyle, as more and more people set up coops and started keeping chickens in cities and suburbia, far from farmland. Websites cropped up for amateur chicken…
Read MoreThinking about backyard chickens as your next pet? What you need to know before bringing them home…
Chickens are growing in popularity as the new backyard family pet. If you don’t already know someone with backyard chickens, sooner or later you will. According to Brinkley and Kingsley (2016), “over 13 million Americans are flocking to the backyard poultry scene.” In addition, U.S. cities are jumping on board and developing regulations to allow…
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