Health Issues with Chickens

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 How to Treat Chickens for Pasty Butt a Foot Infection and Mites How to treat chickens      As with all animals, chickens can have health problems. Our chickens have had both normal, and bizarre health problems. Our first problem was pasty butt, which I talked about in another blog post, but, why not talk about it again? Our second problem was a weird foot infection. Then our chicken’s latest health issue was feather mites.      Pasty butt is actually dried feces that is blocking the chicken’s vent. This normally happens with chicks, but it can happen to adult chickens, too. This problem has the easiest, most instantaneous cure, the cure is a simple wet rag. Take the wet rag and dab at and gently rub the chick’s vent where the dried feces is, this will soften the dried feces and eventually remove it. When one of our chicks got it, we caught it, either the day after it happened or the same day, because she wasn’t in any sort of discomfort. It ...
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The Chicken Journy Pt. 3- The coop

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                How to build a Chicken Coop

How we Built our Chicken Coop

Taking The tree house apart
Taking the tree house apart
Using the tree house to build our chicken coop
Taking the tree house apart
    After writing the research paper, we got to work on the coop. Instead of building a brand new structure, or buying one from Tractor Supply, we used our playhouse/swing set We unscrewed and removed all of the unnecessary wood, so that it was only the frame. We then took ¼ in plywood and mounted it on the outside as the outer wall. Because we live in Central PA and winters get cold, we sandwiched ½ inch insulation between the outer and inner walls.

Making a chicken coop with a tree house
Putting the outer walls on

Making a chicken coop with a tree house
Working on the roof

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Near the roof we put two ventilation cutouts at the top for the summer, which we hinged so it would be covered in the winter. We replaced the leaky cedar roof with asphalt shingles, first putting plywood down and covering it with tar paper.


    The furnishings inside are nothing fancy, the roost is just a small sapling that we cut down. The chicken feeder was DIY, as we took two lengths of four inch PVC pipe and connected them with a 90 degree connection. The piece of pipe that sits on the floor we drilled 1 ½ inch holes in for the chickens to eat from.

The finnished inside of the coop with PVC pipe feeder
The finished inside

    For a run, we made a frame out of 2X4’s, used treated lumber where it contacts the ground, some pallets to form walls, and ¼ inch galvanized wire mesh. The run and the coop are connected and set on 12 inch by 12 inch pavers to keep everything level.





the finished exterior of the chicken coop
The final product


the finished exterior of the chicken coop
The final product


   

 

 

 

 

 


    After a lot of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, we finished the chicken coop and everything was ready for the chickens. In my next post I will tell you about getting and raising the chickens plus health issues we’ve had with them.

 

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