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The Chicken Health Handbook

SKU: 100012731

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Comprehensive guide to chicken care, health, and disease prevention.

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A Complete Guide to Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with Disease

Learn how to give your flock the care they need. This informative book will guide you on nutrition, reproductive issues, and a full range of health problems your chickens may face. Covers topics like practicing preventive health care, using natural approaches to enhance the immune system, raising healthy chickens in an urban environment and more!

Product Highlights
  • Filled with full-color photographs and helpful illustrations
  • Paperback
  • Second edition
  • 487 pp.
  • 9-1/4" x 7"
  • Written by Gail Damerow

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Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1: Keeping Chickens Healthy
Chapter 2: Good Nutrition Means Healthy Chickens
Chapter 3: The Inner Chicken
Chapter 4: Mysteries of Metabolism
Chapter 5: What's Bugging Your Birds
Chapter 6: When Chickens Get Wormy
Chapter 7: Diseases Caused by Protozoa
Chapter 8: Conditions Caused by Bacteria
Chapter 9: The Fungus Among Us
Chapter 10: Diseases Caused by Viruses
Chapter 11: Management Issues
Chapter 12: Diagnostic Guides
Chapter 13: What's Going on Inside
Chapter 14: Treatments and Therapies
Chapter 15: Your Chickens and Your Health
Quick Guide to Diseases and Disorders
Glossary
Index

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