You step into your chicken coop, a place you’ve lovingly put together for your little egg-layers. Instead of the cozy home you envision, a pungent odor assaults your senses, and
The Sky is Falling! Imagine the panic that would grip you if you came home to find your beloved chicken lying injured or ill. The helplessness you’d feel, the fear
What is Chicken Vent Gleet? Chicken Vent Gleet is a potentially chronic chicken vent inflammation usually accompanied by an abnormal discharge. It is also called cloacitis because it occurs in
Understanding the Dangers: Poison Threats to Your Chickens Chickens, curious and industrious as they are, have a knack for pecking around in places they shouldn’t. Keeping chickens safe from poisons
Special thanks to the Animal Sciences Department at the University of Kentucky Chicken prolapsed oviduct is a natural condition that occurs when a chicken lays an egg. The oviduct naturally
Hello again, friendly chicken keepers. If you have ever forgotten to clean the water container for your chickens, you probably noticed that slimy layer forming inside your chicken’s waterer and
When the frost is on the pumpkin and the days get shorter in the late autumn, that’s when you need to start thinking about how your chickens are going to
Cannibalism in chickens is the habit of chickens pecking one another. I have not seen a chicken eat another chicken, but they will kill each other for some reason. Once
Will rats kill chickens? They will if they can, but it is very unusual for a rat to kill an adult chicken. Do rats kill chickens? The answer to this
It really doesn’t matter whether it’s trees, plants, people, or chickens; anytime you put too many of the same species in one gathering, the opportunity for a disease to take
