Hello and welcome to our channel, where we share tips and tricks on how to raise healthy and happy chickens. In today's video, we are going to talk about 11 ways to accidentally kill your chickens and how to avoid them. Chickens are amazing animals that provide us with eggs, meat, and companionship, but they are also vulnerable to many dangers and diseases. If you want to keep your chickens alive and well, you need to be aware of these potential threats and take preventive measures. So let's get started.
1. Predators
One of the most common and obvious ways to lose your chickens is by predators. There are many animals that would love to have a chicken dinner, such as foxes, raccoons, hawks, dogs, cats, snakes, and even rats. Predators can attack your chickens at any time of the day or night, so you need to protect your flock with a sturdy and secure coop and run. Make sure that there are no gaps or holes in the walls, floor, or roof of your coop, and that the doors and windows are locked.
2. Heat Stress
Another way to kill your chickens is by heat stress. Chickens are not very good at regulating their body temperature, and they can easily overheat in hot weather. Heat stress can cause dehydration, panting, lethargy, and even death.
3. Dehydration
Dehydration is closely related to heat stress, but it can also happen in cold weather, especially if your chickens' water sources freeze. Dehydration can cause weakness, loss of appetite, reduced egg production, and death.
4. Parasites
Parasites are another way to kill your chickens, or at least make them very sick. There are many types of parasites that can infest your chickens, such as mites, lice, worms, fleas, and ticks. Parasites can cause itching, irritation, anemia, weight loss, reduced egg production, and death.
5. Diseases
Diseases are another way to kill your chickens, or at least make them very sick. There are many types of diseases that can affect your chickens, such as coccidiosis, salmonella, avian influenza, Marek's disease, and Newcastle disease.
6. Poisoning
Poisoning is another way to kill your chickens, or at least make them very sick. There are many things that can poison your chickens, such as moldy feed, spoiled food, toxic plants, pesticides, rodenticides, or household chemicals.
7. Injury
Injury is another way to kill your chickens, or at least make them very sick. There are many things that can injure your chickens, such as sharp objects, broken bones, cuts, wounds, or pecking. Injury can cause bleeding, infection, inflammation, and death.
8. Starvation
Starvation is another way to kill your chickens, or at least make them very sick. There are many reasons why your chickens might not get enough food, such as poor quality feed, insufficient quantity, competition, or theft. Starvation can cause emaciation, weakness, reduced egg production, and death.
9. Frostbite
Frostbite is another way to kill your chickens, or at least make them very sick. Frostbite is a condition where the tissues of the body freeze due to exposure to cold temperatures. Frostbite can affect the comb, wattles, feet, and toes of your chickens, and cause pain, swelling, blisters, necrosis, and death.
10. Drowning
Drowning is another way to kill your chickens, or at least make them very sick. Chickens are not good swimmers, and they can easily drown in deep water, such as ponds, pools, or buckets. Drowning can cause suffocation, hypothermia, and death.
11. Cannibalism
Cannibalism is another way to kill your chickens, or at least make them very sick. Chickens can sometimes peck and eat each other, especially if they are stressed, bored, overcrowded, or injured. Cannibalism can cause bleeding, infection, disease, and death.
That's it for today's video. We hope you learned something new and useful. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more chicken-related content. Thank you for watching and see you next time.
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00:00 Introduction
00:30 Predators
01:05 Heat Stress
01:36 Dehydration
02:05 Parasites
02:39 Diseases
03:13 Poisoning
03:44 Injury
04:24 Starvation
04:58 Frostbite
05:32 Drowning
06:04 Cannibalism
5 июл 2024
