The Chicken Health Handbook: A Complete Guide to Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with Disease - Paperback

by Gail Damerow (Author)

The best-selling classic reference by America's leading chicken authority.

• Practicing preventive healthcare
• Using natural approaches to enhance the immune system
• Treating and avoiding news-making diseases
• Raising healthy chickens in an urban environment

Front Jacket

Primary Care for a Thriving Flock
Gail Damerow, leading authority on all things chicken, provides a complete reference to answer the questions and resolve the problems of any chicken raiser from beginner to professional. This fully updated and expanded edition of a longtime classic offers expert guidance on nutrition, reproductive issues, and a full range of health problems, along with the latest information on:
- Practicing preventive healthcare
- Using natural approaches to enhance the immune system
- Treating and avoiding news-making diseases such as avian flu
- Raising healthy chickens in an urban environment
- Enhanced with full-color photographs and eye-opening illustrations, this is the essential guide to keeping your chickens healthy and productive.

Author Biography

Gail Damerow has written extensively on raising chickens and other livestock, growing fruits and vegetables, and related rural know-how in more than a dozen books, including What's Killing My Chickens? and the best-selling Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, The Chicken Encyclopedia, The Chicken Health Handbook, and Hatching & Brooding Your Own Chicks. Damerow is a contributor to Chickens and Hobby Farms magazines and a regular blogger for Cackle Hatchery. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, where they operate a family farm with poultry and dairy goats, a sizable garden, and a small orchard. Visit her online at gaildamerow.com.