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

by Gail Damerow

Book Overview

A completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling classic reference by America's leading chicken authority.

Healthy chickens are happy chickens. This one-of-a-kind reference book covers the health problems that plague chickens of all breeds and ages. Practical charts identify common symptoms and causes of infection, while an alphabetic listing of diseases provides advice on treatment. You'll find helpful descriptions of troublesome...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161212013X
• ISBN13: 9781612120133
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Reference Book

As a poultry extensionist, this is by far one of my favorites to recommend for those who raise and rear poultry that have had some reoccuring problems! Gail really does put situations into understandable terms for the everyday poultry enthusiast. If you have raised poultry, this one should be on your shelf or at least in easy reach.

An excellent resource for any poultry owner...

This is the first book I turn to when I have a question regarding the health of my chickens. I breed purebred bantams and large fowl, (as well as ducks, guineas, and geese.) Damerow's book has just about everything you need to know when it comes to keeping your birds healthy, or dealing with it when they're sick. Her chapters include: - Chicken Health - Health and Nutrition - Anatomy of a Chicken - External Parasites - Internal Parasites: Worms - Internal Parasites: Protozoa - Infectious Diseases - Environment Related Problems - Diagnostic Guides - Postmortem Examination - Therapy - Enhancing Immunity - Incubation and Brooding - Chickens and Human Health - Diseases and Disorders She also includes a glossary, a list of suppliers, state poultry laboratories, and a list of recommended reading material. If you own chickens, and care about their health, you owe it to yourself and them to get this book. Don't hesitate, buy it!

This is an excellent book!!

I have 30 bantam chickens, and I turn to this book all the time whenever I have a proplem. I highly recomend it for anyone that is or is going to raise chickens. Whenever you have a problem you just turn to the diognoses charts, match the symptoms and the age, and find out what it is. You then go the back and find the disease, and then it tells you how to treat it, prevent it, if there's any human health risk and much MUCH more!! It also tell you EVERYTHING else you need to know on how to raise them. I VERY highly recomend this book as well as Storys Guide To Raising Chickens by Gail Dammerow as well.

A "Must Have" for all poultry and fowl fanciers.

An easy to read, down to earth book written by a veterinarian, includes topics of diseases, how to deal with the diseases and methods of prevention, chicken anatomy, parasites of poultry, diagnostic guides, environmental problems, vaccination, incubating and brooding of eggs and chicks.