Corazon’s Close Call With A Soft-Shelled Egg
If you’ve kept chickens for long enough you’ve probably seen a wide range of eggs: different sizes from the double-yolkerContinue Reading
Category: Health Issues
How Many Chickens Are Enough?
The internet is full of memes and products that have tapped into the contemporary chicken keepers’ zeitgeist. They refer toContinue Reading
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Marek’s Disease
I’ve read a lot of posts about Marek’s disease on Facebook farm groups, but have never experienced it first-hand. IContinue Reading
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Weird Eggs 101: The Oddities Explained (Or What’s A Fart Egg?!)
Before I had chickens I probably didn’t give a lot of thought to how eggs are actually made. That allContinue Reading
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Biosecurity
I’m on a number of Facebook farm and chicken groups and am watching with interest as Virulent Newcastle Disease isContinue Reading
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Crossbeak
For the last few years I’ve been a member of several Facebook farm and chicken groups and have learned aContinue Reading
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Antibiotics: If Your Only Tool Is A Hammer …
I have a few pet peeves; the more you get to know me the more you’ll hear about them. ThisContinue Reading
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Flystrike In Chickens
This is not a tale for those with weak stomachs, but if you have chickens it’s important to know aboutContinue Reading
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Gapeworm
There are five species of parasitic worms that affect chickens: four live in the intestinal system and the fifth, whichContinue Reading
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When An Egg Is Not An Egg: Salpingitis
Some of you may have heard the term ‘lash egg’, which is a bit of a misnomer because technically it’sContinue Reading
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