Everything you need to care for and keep happy, healthy chickens!

Inside, you’ll get everything you need to know about chicken health and wellness: an encyclopedia full of common and not-so-common diseases, injuries, symptoms, and cures that chicken owners may encounter. Chicken Health For Dummies provides chicken owners with one handy, all-encompassing resource.

Helps you identify potential hazards and signs of ill health in your chicken
Shows you how to properly examine chickens to identify and isolate potential health issues before they spread to the rest of the flock
An encyclopedia full of common and uncommon diseases, injuries, symptoms, and cures for chickens

Chicken Health For Dummies joins Raising Chickens For Dummies and Building Chickens Coops For Dummies to round out the For Dummies reference library as a must-have resource for both rural and urban chicken owners.

From the Inside Flap
Learn to:

Keep your chickens in peak conditionDiagnose and treat ailing chickens
Grasp common and uncommon diseases and injuries and their cures
Your guide to keeping happy, healthy chickens

With directives on diagnosing and treating sick or ailing chickens, as well as general information on how to keep chickens in peak condition, Chicken Health For Dummies is your go-to guide on how to best care for and keep a backyard flock. Inside, you’ll get everything you need to know about chicken health and wellness: an encyclopedia full of common and not-so-common diseases, injuries, and signs of illness, and their cures.

Know your chicken — get a primer on healthy chicken anatomy and functions in order to spot a sick chicken — from understanding fowl behavior and communication to the importance of keeping chickens clean, comfortable, and well-fed
Signs of illness — discover how to distinguish normal from abnormal chicken body functions and behavior, narrow down the possibilities to get to a diagnosis, and uncover the most common ailments of chicks and adult chickens
Major chicken illnesses — find the causes, signs, means of spreading, prevention tips, and treatment advice for major chicken illnesses
Chicken repair — get the 4-1-1 on how to make a diagnosis for a flock problem, whether you’ll need the help of a chicken health advisor, and how to perform basic procedures like giving an injection and trimming a wing

Open the book and find:

What to expect from a happy, healthy chicken
How to prevent illness in your backyard flock
Troubleshooting signs of illness in chicks and adult chickens
Diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites, and other pests
Advice on finding a chicken health advisor
Tips on performing chicken first-aid procedures
How to produce quality homegrown eggs and meat
Common misconceptions about chicken health

From the Back Cover
Learn to:

Keep your chickens in peak condition
Diagnose and treat ailing chickens
Grasp common and uncommon diseases and injuries and their cures
Your guide to keeping happy, healthy chickens

Know your chicken — get a primer on healthy chicken anatomy and functions in order to spot a sick chicken — from understanding fowl behavior and communication to the importance of keeping chickens clean, comfortable, and well-fed
Signs of illness — discover how to distinguish normal from abnormal chicken body functions and behavior, narrow down the possibilities to get to a diagnosis, and uncover the most common ailments of chicks and adult chickens
Major chicken illnesses — find the causes, signs, means of spreading, prevention tips, and treatment advice for major chicken illnesses
Chicken repair — get the 4-1-1 on how to make a diagnosis for a flock problem, whether you’ll need the help of a chicken health advisor, and how to perform basic procedures like giving an injection and trimming a wing

Open the book and find: