While it is good to recognize sick chicken symptoms, it might be more valuable for new chicken owners to know normal, healthy chicken behavior. If you know how your chickens act when they are feeling good and healthy, you will notice when your chicken in acting peculiar. How does the chicken look and act? A healthy chicken is a busy chicken. It is aware of what the other chickens are doing. The healthy chicken is pecking the ground, scratching the dirt, and chasing others away from a … [Read more...]
4 Bacteria that Make Chickens Sick
Bacteria that make chickens sick can come from many sources. Bringing in new flock members, wearing shoes to another poultry farm and then into your coop, are some of the ways bacterial infections can enter your flock. Many of the bacterial infections can result in loss of members of the flock. Prevention and cleanliness would be the key to naturally avoiding bacterial infections. Once a bacterial infection is present, proceed carefully in eradicating it. In many cases, bacteria that make … [Read more...]
Chicken Disease and Illness in Your Flock
There are people won't raise chickens because of chicken disease and illness that may strike the flock. This is a valid concern for every chicken owner. We should be aware of the common chicken diseases, but, I don't feel it is a reason to avoid raising backyard chickens. There are health benefits in fresh eggs. Chickens who eat only healthy food and free range goodies provide us with good nutrition. Also, the free compost from feeding the flock, when carefully tended, will keep your garden soil … [Read more...]
Hardest Part of Farming
How to Survive the Bad Times and Live to Enjoy the Good days What is the hardest part of farming. This farming life can be so hard and so amazing all at once. How can one week in life suddenly claim some beloved farm critters, find healing for others and see 10 new lives enter into the world. So, it's not the hard work, or the heat, or the cold, or the insect bites, or the endless tromping through mud. It's the loss. Unexpected, unpredictable, heartbreaking loss, after you do everything you … [Read more...]
