I would like to keep a note about my chicken keeping. Chickens come with much love, joy, pain, work and many up and down. The down is to do with flock disharmony and ill health.
At time I am sadly wonder about why none of my chickens die of old age? I have been keeping chickens for 7/8 years now. Why are my flock so prone to ill health?
I work very hard every day to care for my chickens, clean their bedding every morning, new bedding at night, pick up their poops several times a day, clean water every day and containers are cleaned many times during the week. I give the good feed, green leafly and yes, the treat like sprout grains, bananas, blue berries, those are healthy stuff. Still I found now that I have 2 hens with skin infection below the vent, and I have 2 hens started reproductive issues that I know because they are Isa Brown.
I found a size of a half teaspoon fleshly lump inside my Australorp egg. She is such a healthy hen, lay 3 eggs a week and I am sure this lump is cancerous.
It has started to wear me down with so much ill health. When I see them running to me, digging up my garden, I feel all love again, all the work and pain worth it all.
At time I am sadly wonder about why none of my chickens die of old age? I have been keeping chickens for 7/8 years now. Why are my flock so prone to ill health?
I work very hard every day to care for my chickens, clean their bedding every morning, new bedding at night, pick up their poops several times a day, clean water every day and containers are cleaned many times during the week. I give the good feed, green leafly and yes, the treat like sprout grains, bananas, blue berries, those are healthy stuff. Still I found now that I have 2 hens with skin infection below the vent, and I have 2 hens started reproductive issues that I know because they are Isa Brown.
I found a size of a half teaspoon fleshly lump inside my Australorp egg. She is such a healthy hen, lay 3 eggs a week and I am sure this lump is cancerous.
It has started to wear me down with so much ill health. When I see them running to me, digging up my garden, I feel all love again, all the work and pain worth it all.
