- How To Raise Chickens
When buying or building a coop, make sure it's big enough for them (and any future additions) A good rule of thumb for space requirements is approximately 3–4 square feet per chicken inside the coop and 10 sq ft per chicken for the outside run Check out this great guide on how much room do chickens need? Chicken Coop:
- Raising Chickens 101 - Chicks, Breeds, Coops, Tips
Tips Tricks for raising chickens, building chicken coops, choosing chicken breeds + ask questions in our community forum Featured Content POW: Beautiful EE hen sapphire from african chickens 2025-06-24 00:00:00 | 2025-07-01 00:00:00
- Coccidiosis How To Treat It - BackYard Chickens
Coccidia are a microscopic parasitic organism that infect poultry when ingested by the chicken The parasites found in the ground or bird feces attaches itself to the lining in the gut, multiplies and becomes an oocyst feeding in the digestive tract which will make it bleed
- Bird Flu: What You Need To Know - BackYard Chickens
While avian influenza is rampant, you should avoid sharing or reusing equipment from your neighbor's chicken flock Among these are rakes, shovels, chicken troughs, and other chicken equipment This may seem overboard, but it also includes reusing egg cartons from your neighbors and other friends with chickens 4) Set a limit on visitors and
- Splay Leg and Spraddle Leg Treatment - BackYard Chickens
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- Cleaning the Coop, Dos and Donts - BackYard Chickens
These are super easy to make, and you most likely already have the ingredients, which is why I love them Of course, the white vinegar makes it smell like vinegar, but it doesn't last Vinegar is much better to use in coop cleaning as bleach and chicken poop never ends well, especially if there's ammonia involved
- Internal Parasites - Parasitic Worms in Chickens
The chicken, in turn, eats these bugs and thus becomes infested Knowing these life-cycles can help you to keep your chickens from ingesting too many of these worms Proper hygiene and coop run maintenance will help to keep worm populations under control
- How to treat sour crop and impacted crop and how to know which one you . . .
If the chicken has been drinking lots of water, yet not eating anything, this is further indication of impacted crop Impacted crop sour crop If the crop is full and hard and lumpy and the chicken has been drinking lots of water and it smells like sauerkraut, you likely have an impacted crop that has developed a yeast infection
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