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My Most Complicated Hatch Ever

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Ella’s Bumblefoot: Or How To Ring In The New Year With A New Friend

What are most people doing on New Year’s Eve? Planning a party? Making sure they have lots of booze inContinue Reading

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by Bitchin' Chickens November 11, 2018 0

Genetics Pullet or Cockerel? Stories From The Flock

Pullet or Cockerel? How Understanding Sexual Dimorphism Will Help You Figure It Out

One of the challenges of keeping chickens is to determine the sex of chicks and young birds. It’s not anContinue Reading

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by Bitchin' Chickens November 9, 2018 0

Life On Gabriola Island Photo Albums

Gabriola Roadside Stands

Photo Essay of Farm Life on Gabriola

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Why Bitchin’ Chickens …

bitch·in’ | \ˈbi-chən \

Adjective: remarkably good, cool, excellent. “Look at that bitchin’ rooster”

Verb: to express displeasure; grumble, “Quit yer bitchin’, I’ll be out of the nest box in a minute.”

Anyone who’s had chickens knows how fun they are. They’re beautiful, entertaining, have personalities of their own and are just plain bitchin’.

You also know that chickens like to talk. My hens can go on and on, complaining about who got to the favourite nest box first, who’s in the best roost bar spot, who’s grabbed the best treat first. Roosters get a bum rap about their crowing, but I think hands down hens do a lot more bitchin’.

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Araucana, Ameraucana, Easter Egger …What’s The Difference?

Potato, potahto, tomato, tomahto … What’s in a name? In the case of Ameraucana chickens quite a bit. I’m a bitContinue Reading

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Dealing With Frostbite In Chickens

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Case Study: Feather Follicle Cyst

If you’ve ever had an ingrown hair you’ll remember that it’s a hair which instead of growing normally, curls backContinue Reading

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Dealing With Chicken Beak Injuries

Beaks, nails and spurs are all made of keratin, a type of protein. A normal beak is comprised of twoContinue Reading

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Natural Remedy For Chickens: Hops

Hops are the flowers of the Humulus lupulus plant, a member of the Cannabinaceae family, which also includes cannabis (marijuana andContinue Reading

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Humane Euthanasia For Chickens

If you keep any animal at some point you’re going to have to deal with life and death issues. It’sContinue Reading

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Natural Remedy For Chickens: Wormwood

I see lots of posts on Facebook chicken groups in which folks post about having spotted worms in their chickens’Continue Reading

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Natural Remedy For Chickens: Drawing Salves

Drawing salves are a mixture of oils and herbal ingredients that work to draw toxins out of the body andContinue Reading

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Natural Remedy For Chickens: Turmeric

Turmeric (Curcuma longa), a perennial herb and relative of ginger, gives the yellow colour to curries in Indian, Southeast Asian,Continue Reading

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Chicken Pedicures: Trimming Nails, Spurs & Beaks

Chicken nails, spurs and beaks are made of keratin, a type of protein. We have the benefit of being ableContinue Reading

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Case Study: Hardware Disease & Metal Toxicity

Several years ago I had a much loved poodle, Simon, who had a penchant for eating things that got stuckContinue Reading

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Case Study: Burn Survivors

I live off the west coast of British Columbia. For weeks we’ve been hearing about the climate fires in California,Continue Reading

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Hardware Disease & Metal Toxicity In Chickens

Zinc Toxicity Chickens explore their world beak first and often peck at things that aren’t edible or healthy. If theyContinue Reading

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Chicken Mating Injuries

I belong to several Facebook chicken groups and routinely see posts related to rooster-caused mating injuries. Some are relatively minor,Continue Reading

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Case Study: Sinusitis

Just like with people, chickens can get sinusitis: a sinus infection creating inflammation of the air cavities in the passagesContinue Reading

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Wound Care For Chickens

If you keep chickens for a while you’ll eventually deal with wound care. Chickens can get injured in a myriadContinue Reading

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Case Study: Predator Attack

Faith, 4 month old Java pullet Faith was part of a flock that was wiped out by an overnight massacre.Continue Reading

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Atherosclerosis In Chickens

Atherosclerosis is one of those tongue-twisting words that is probably easier to describe than to pronounce. It’s what your doctorContinue Reading

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Case Study: Salpingitis

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Case Study: Amputation

During the Covid 19 lockdown, Rachel’s neighbour gave her a hen with a severe case of bumblefoot that he hadContinue Reading

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Case Study: Broken Leg

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Case Study: Egg Bound Hen

I’ve only once dealt with an egg bound hen. It was quite dramatic, in that the egg was actually stuckContinue Reading

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Fixing Fractured Chicken Bones

I’ve yet to experience dealing with fractured bones, but with my luck it may be on the future to-do list.Continue Reading

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Microbial Pathogens In Chickens

How Bacteria, Viruses & Protozoa Work

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Blindness In Chickens

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bitch·in’ | \ˈbi-chən \