Bird Care: Backyard Chickens - Diseases and Treatments - 90 pages book, black and white interior. Raising chickens is very advantageous for most of us, they represent a good source of meat and eggs, they have a fantastic therapeutic effect on us and i&tgrave;s much easier to maintain them than other pets. Your kids will adore them as well, they will love feeding them and they will collect the eggs every day with such pleasure. Until here everything seems to be fine and perfect, but what if your chickens get sick, what if the hens begin laying shell-less or thin shelled eggs; they start to eat the eggs; they're molting continuously; on their legs will appear some ugly crusts; they suffer from anaemia; they suffer from diarrhoea; they are infested with internal and external parasites and much more kind of diseases. When these kind of problems appear, you'll have to be prepared and beside of your first aid kit you'll need to have the knowledge to recognize and prevent diseases. The book contains the following chapters: Introduction 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 Mare&kgrave;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 Disclaimer More from the author