Keeping your chickens healthy
My healthy Silver Laced Wyandotte free-ranging!
Here are some ways to keep your chickens healthy and happy.
1. Cleaning the coop
Cleaning the coop is very important for keeping happy, healthy chickens. If you don't clean the coop you risk an infestation of lice...
Mites & Lice! Treatment and Prevention
A parasite is any living thing that lives off another living thing. External parasites can either suck blood or eat feathers. Chickens with bad infestations become thin, don’t lay eggs well, and have reduced fertility. With really bad infestations...
Coccidiosis & How To Treat It
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What is Coccidiosis?
Coccidia are a microscopic parasitic organism that infect poultry when ingested by the chicken. The parasites found in the ground or bird feces attaches itself to the lining in the gut, multiplies and...
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Why Is My Chicken Losing Feathers?
You may wonder why your chicken’s feathers are falling out or why it has bald spots. Don't worry this is a natural cycle that chickens will go through called molting. When a chicken is molting, it sheds its old worn-out feathers...
~A Couple Chicken Problems And How to Fix Them~
Nellie the BA in the front
Chickens can get sick without warning. Sometimes its minor and sometimes its major, but either way it should not be taken lightly. Any problem your chickens may encounter should be treated as soon as possible...
Jet my mutt rooster. Also check out my other page of all my chickens here. https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/willowbranchfarms-page
Jet is so special to me. I got him Tuesday September 27 2011 as a day old chick from MPC. I got 8 chickens and wanted them all...
~Willow Branch Farm~
Princess (Above)
All my hens have started to lay. I've already gotten 90 some eggs and I only have 7 chickens. They have been laying around a month or two. This is my first egg layer. (Below, Beauty) She's a Black Australorp.
She has only missed one day, and has layed...
I got two new chickens I got to add to my flock. They're the sweetest cutest chickens I've ever seen. They are Cream Light Brown Dutch Bantams. Ella is mine and Fawn is my sister's.Here are some pictures...
~~~~Welcome to Willowbranchfarm!!!~~~~
I'm Rebecca, I have 8 chickens and I got them September 27 2011 so I'm pretty new to them. I have 3 buff orpingtons, 3 black australorps and 2 silver laced wyandottes. One of the BA is a rooster. His name is Jet and he is my baby. :) he loves to be...