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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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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      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. Putting the outer walls on 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, ...
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The Chicken Journy Pt. 2- The Research

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                         Researching Chickens How to Raise Chickens        This Blog post is going to be just my research on chickens from three years ago.      You h a ve decide d to raise chickens and maybe have read about raising them, and are thinking about getting them. W ell now you have a source to answer all your questions such as how to avoid death in your flock, purchasing them, caring for them, coop requirements, and some breeds of chickens.      W ay s to avoid your chickens’ downfall is the most important knowledge to keep chickens . C over ing the broad subject of keeping predators from the air and ground away from the chickens co u ld go on for a long time, but the basics are simple: CCC ( combat, confront, counter ) . Combat – call your game commission and ask what they can do. Confront – when you see the predator near ...
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The Chicken Journy Pt. 1- The Journy Begins

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            Raising Chickens - the Beginning of Our                                                 Journey The Story:      Starting around 2017 my sister and I helped with the daily chores at the Yetsko farm two blocks from our house. The farm was established in 1855, and has been designated a century farm by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. We still help out with baling hay and any other tasks they need help with. The Yetskos are also the ones who started our chicken journey.      One day in early 2021, we were feeding their flock of twenty some chickens, and honestly, I don’t know why or how we got talking about how easy it is to raise chickens. At some point they told us we could get chickens and it would be easy to raise them.      ...
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