Chicken DISEASES 🦠: How to Treat & Prevent Them

In this video, we will be going over the different diseases and issues that your chickens might encounter, what you can do to identify and treat them, and what you should not do.

Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:00 Chicken Poop
3:13 Symptoms of Problems
6:13 Parasites
7:16 Coccidiosis
7:57 Feather Lice
8:54 Leg Mites
9:35 Intestinal Worms
11:10 Cannibalism
11:45 Over-mating
12:29 Animal Attack
13:18 Heat Stress - Overheating
13:40 Marek's Disease
14:54 Pasting - Pasty Butt
15:57 Problem Assessment and Solution Example
17:54 What Not to Worry About
21:25 What to Do When There's Nothing You Can Do

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[Raj-yyxx]

Best chicken health video I've seen! Straight to the point, no fluff and natural approaches! Thank you!

[seemontana]

I’m so happy I came across this video. Very educational! Gave me more confidence in knowing what to do when my chickens are not feeling good. Thank you so much for taking the time for sharing and giving me my confidence. My chickens are free range and live in a really nice coop. They bring us much joy and wonderful fresh eggs.

[fishnlady]

Excellent video!! I’m saving this one for future reference. Thank you so much for making this video!!

[JD-dhbk]

You have a very soothing voice.
I started backyard chicken raising August of 2021.
I've lost 2. I don't really know what their illness was.
But I was devastated.
I'm trying to keep my 12 alive.
I've gotten a bit paranoid and worried.. I just feel like I don't know what I'm doing..
I keep trying though.
I'm glad I found you.
I hope we can keep the rest alive.❤

[janeleray]

Excellent to the point advice.
Very informative.
Thank you for your time.

[Scrawberri]

Fantastic video! Gave me so much in depth info in one place quickly. Thanks for giving realistic chicken information and including the not so great things.

[whyldthing]

Low sodium or salt in the diet will also trigger cannibalism or vent picking on chickens. So giving some salt in their diet could be a remedy to prevent it. Those that are already wounded, can be isolated and treated with wound spray to aid healing and prevent the bird in pecking its wounds.

[randallcrawford]

Hi good info .I found a once of prevention is well worth it! Each month I use diced garlic and oregano cabbage and diatomaceous earth to their diet and treats worms i also use wormwood ...all good to grow yourself too ..and they can free range these plants like mints and catnip lemon balm...and dry and powder some for winter to add to food and treats...some things can also be added to water but These herbal remedies and plants should all be in their natural diet! Some people are raising and breeding for a wild flock with minimum care something to think about... have a great day!

[ivadawnhollopeter]

Thank you so much for your video. I have two chickens right now and one of them is severely Showing Mirics, which I know they spelled this wrong, but one of them on the other hand just had a foot curling up, and I started giving her vitamins and confined her. She seems to be doing better, but she’s not moving so she may be the next one to come down sadly, I don’t have a vet in the area and it saddens me to have to take care of the one that I have who severely unable to move, can kind of wiggle her self a bit, but other than that am I also thought botulism only because I have a neighbor who throws things over the yard and I’ve been known to throw veggies in the yard. Not thinking they could rot. Which I will no longer do I will put them in a container, I’ve had chickens for two years and I’ve never had anything like this happen and it saddens me to know I might lose two of my girls.

[rjay]

Well I feel a little better, my Roo has been a little under the weather and your explanation makes sense. Thanks

[kimberlypruszynski]

Thank you, this was excellent, i really appreciate all the info!

[angelikast]

Wow. Your video was amazing. I really appreciate you making it. ❤

[karryc]

Wow! This is such a thorough video! Thank you so much!

[steveng]

Fantastic video - so informative and exceptional presentation. Thank you. I have four hens all under one year old and over the past two weeks have dramatically reduced eating their Layer food. I recently fed them a pumpkin that they devoured. They are still hungry and will eat food scraps, lettus, cucumber and of course treats. The past 2 days I stopped all treats, had a limmited success by soaking the pellet layer food in water. I noticed that one hen comb has some scale on it, and the other two have somewhat faded. One hen comb is a little droopy. Poop in the hen house seems ok, just a bit runny and dark. I’m trying to diagnose the problem and understand what the solution is. This was a great help. Im going to try several holistic things - Garlic, Pumpkin Seeds, Apple vinegar. My biggest concern is they are not eating the Layer food. Should I give them other foods like scrambled eggs, veggies, oat seeds?

[rogerknight]

I’ve been hit with a pendulous crop in one of my girls. On top of that, it was impacted as well as sour. For three days I massaged the crop every two hours before I finally broke up the impaction . In the meantime, I started adding a blend of vitamins and minerals as well as probiotics to their water. Every other day I added two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with the mother. Over the next three weeks I reduced the daily massages down to three to four times a day. The crop was slow to respond but it was making progress. What finally produced a significant breakthrough was fitting my girl with a chicken bra. She may have to wear it the rest of her life, but so be it. Interesting, she never stopped laying and never acted sick.

[SkyClears]

I love this video. Thank you so much for making it!

[lamadre]

Excellent video !! Very informative. ❤️

[ironrose]

Just discovered your channel. Very concise information and well organized. Thank you for the wealth of information 😎❤️‍🩹

[calideeholmes]

Spot on!Jolly well done! Thank you so much...NEW SUBSCRIBER😍!!!!

[elizabethtran]

I really learn a lot from ur video thank you for teaching all about children.