Chickens: Staphylococcosis in chickens
Poultry owners often encounter various diseases in their pets, including staphylococcosis. It is an infectious disease characterized by arthritis, bursitis and dermatitis. Staphylococcosis can be …
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Chickens: Streptococcosis in chickens
Streptococcosis is quite common among all kinds of infectious diseases of poultry. It has other names: sleeping sickness, idiopathic streptococcal peritonitis and others. Streptococcosis can …
Decorative chickens
In addition to the breeds of chickens that are used to perform their main functions, namely, high productivity, many poultry farmers are increasingly opting for …
Chickens: Chicken Gout
Among the large number of different diseases observed in chickens, gout is especially worth highlighting. This disease is also called uric acid diathesis. It is …
Fighting cocks
It is not uncommon to find chickens of a wide variety of breeds in households today. As a rule, poultry farmers choose a bird with …
Chickens: Salping peritonitis in chickens
Household owners now and then face such a disease of chickens as salpingo-peritonitis. It is a diffuse inflammation of the ovaries, oviduct and abdominal cavity. …
American chicken breeds
Chickens bred in the United States of America are very popular with poultry farmers in many countries of the world. Among the birds of the …
Chickens: Knemidocoptosis in chickens
One of the chronic diseases of chickens is knemidokoptosis. It is also called foot itchy scabies. The main signs of poultry damage by this disease …
Breed of chickens “Pervomaisky”
May Day chickens are quite popular with poultry farmers who prefer to grow meat breeds of feathered pets. These birds were selected at the beginning …
Chickens: Downy Eaters
Poultry farmers in their yard often face the problem of exposing some parts of the body of chickens. This happens when dangerous feather-eating insects “attack” …
Chickens “Jersey Giant”, their features
Currently in the world there is a huge number of the most diverse breeds of chickens. They differ from each other according to various criteria …
Chickens: Marek’s disease
Sometimes poultry farmers are faced with the problem of the appearance of Marek’s disease in their feathered pets. It is also called neurolymphomatosis. A sick …
The smallest breeds of chickens
Almost every breed of chickens attracts poultry farmers with one or another of its distinctive features, characteristics, properties. Some birds attract household owners with their …
Chickens: Treating Gastroenteritis in Chickens
The main reason for the appearance of gastroenteritis in chickens is poor-quality feed fed to the bird. In order to prevent illness and cure feathered …
Liven Calico Chickens
Liven chintz chickens belong to the meat-and-egg direction of productivity. Scientists suggest that they were bred by crossing local feathered pets in the Livensky district …
Chickens: Alopecia in chickens
Lack of vitamins A and B1 in the body of chickens leads to a significant loss of plumage, sometimes even complete. This disease is called …
British hens
Among the numerous breeds of chickens, British chickens are also very popular with amateur poultry farmers. They belong to the meat and egg direction of …
Chickens: Yolk peritonitis
Yolk peritonitis is a non-contagious disease that affects laying hens to a greater extent. It is characterized by inflammation of the intestines and abdominal cavity …
Redbrough chickens
One of the many breeds of chickens that can often be found in the backyard is Redbrough. They belong to the meat and egg direction …
Chickens: Keratoconjunctivitis in chickens
Chickens, like any other poultry and animals, can experience vision problems. One of them is called keratoconjunctivitis, which is a disease characterized by an inflammatory …
Hercules chicken breed
Hercules chickens belong to the meat and egg direction of productivity. They are characterized not only by relatively high egg production, but also by good …
Chickens: Cloacite in chickens
Among laying hens, there are many individuals suffering from cloacitis. This disease is characterized by inflammation of the mucous membrane of the cloaca. The main …
Fireroll chickens
Fireroll chickens are birds of the meat direction of productivity. France is their home. However, this breed is not very common either in poultry farms …
Chickens: Cuticulitis
Cuticulitis, as a rule, is observed in young chicks, whose age ranges from birth to one month. In older chickens and adults, this disease appears …
Leningrad print chickens
The Leningrad breed of chickens was artificially bred in the mid-1980s. To create it, breeders crossed several breeds, namely: Poltava clayey, New Hampshire and black-and-white …
Chickens: Pox in chickens
Although chickens are not as susceptible to smallpox infection as turkeys and pigeons, the risk of catching the disease is very high. Smallpox is a …
Wyandot chickens
The Wyandot chicken breed is native to the United States. They got their name from a tribe of Indians who are very similar in their …
Chickens: Rickets in chickens
Rickets develops in poultry as a result of improper, inadequate feeding of poor living conditions from the first minutes and days of the life of …
Chicken breed Master Gray
The Master Gray chicken breed was bred in Hungary by breeders from the Hubbard company. It belongs to the egg and meat direction of productivity. …
Chickens: Spirochetosis in chickens
One of the common septic infectious diseases of chickens is spirochetosis (treponemosis). It is transmitted through the bites of ticks that breed in unsanitary conditions …