The chicken health handbook : a complete guide to maximizing flock health and dealing with disease / Gail Damerow.

Includes index.

Keeping chickens healthy -- Good nutrition means healthy chickens -- The inner chicken -- Mysteries of metabolism -- What's bugging your birds -- When chickens get wormy -- Diseases caused by protozoa -- Conditions caused by bacteria -- The fungus among us -- Diseases caused by viruses -- Management issues -- Diagnostic guides -- What's going on inside -- Treatments and therapies -- Your chickens and your health -- Quick guide to diseases and disorders.

Chickens are vulnerable to a wide range of health problems and diseases, and chicken keepers are the frontline health providers for their birds. Expert Gail Damerow comes to the rescue with this comprehensive handbook written for the layperson. Covering everything from good nutrition to metabolic dysfunctions, parasites, worms, bacterial diseases, fungal infections, viruses, and how the chicken's immune system works, The Chicken Health Handbook covers all the popular and alternative treatment options with in-depth explanations of the science behind them, how-to treatment regimes, and accessible illustrations.