Okay, so we’ve had our share of sick chickens. While it is true, our track record for curing them isn’t the greatest, we do try our best. It is just a fact that due to the high metabolism chickens have, the time between the first signs of illness and possible death can be a mere matter of hours. However, diagnosis of the illness is likely to take longer, which sucks.
A couple resources that have been invaluable to us are the Backyard Chickens website (http://www.backyardchickens.com/), and Barbara Kilarski’s book Keep Chickens!. There are also various blogs from chicken owners as well that have, from time to time, given some great information, but I’ve found that the best resources are the above mentioned.
So with that, I’m going to stop blogging and start diagnosing possible illnesses. Hopefully it’ll be something simple and easily remedied.
Worm your chickens and then give the sick one a mixture of mince, porridge, milk and garlic.
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