Bird Care: Backyard Chickens: Diseases and Treatments

This kindle edition of "Bird Care: Backyard Chickens - Diseases and Treatments" describes and explains how diseases could affect your chickens and also what treatments you can use to cure them. This edition contains the following chapters: Areas of a chicken General criteria How to clean a chicken coop The anatomy of the birds How to recognize a sick bird How to administer medication to your chickens Adding medication in drinking water Adding medication in feed Liquid medication Injectable medication First aid kit for your chickens The most important poultry diseases and the use of vaccinations Shell-less or thin-shelled eggs Trauma at chickens Poor general condition Forced feeding Parasites External parasites Scaly Leg Mite (Cnemidocoptes mutans) The depluming itch mite (Cnemidocoptes gallinae) The air sac mites (Cytodites nudus) Sticktight flea (Echidnophaga gallinacea) Syringophilus bipectinatus Dermanyssus gallinae Cannibalism Internal parasites Trichomoniasis (Trichomonas gallinae) Hair worm (Capillariasis) Gapeworm (Syngamus Trachea) Eimeria (Coccidiosis) Histomoniasis Ascariasis Molting The appetite and the digestive system The bird don't want to eat and drink The birds eat too much When the bird has diarrhea Enteritis (Inflammation of the intestines) Constipation Excessive weight loss Crop diseases Ingluvitis Impacted crop Respiratory system problems Abundant nose secretions Sense organs problems Infection of the ears Infertility problems Nervous system problems Twirling or Torticollis Accidents and injuries of the limb Sprains and dislocations Fractures Intoxication of the chickens Bird diseases which could affect humans Contagious diseases at birds Prevention of diseases Viral diseases Avian influenza (Fowl Plague) Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease) Avian encephalomyelitis Newcastle disease (Avian pseudo pest) Avian pox or Fowl pox Marek`s disease Egg Drop Syndrome (Avian Adenoviruses) Bacterial diseases Avian Pseudomonas Avian Colibacillosis Infectious avian Coryza Avian Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium avium) Salmonellosis Salmonella Pullorum and Salmonella Gallinarum Psittacosis or parrot fever Pasteurellosis Avian respiratory mycoplasmosis Mycotic diseases Candida (Candidiasis) Aspergillosis Read more