Chicken Health Terminology:

Mite- Blood sucking insects that live in your chicken coop and feast on your chickens at night. Literal tiny vampires.

Lice- Straw colored, irritating insects that live on your chickens and feast on their flesh

Coccidiosis- Nasty parasites of the digestive tract. The ultimate horror chicken disease

Marek’s Disease- Horrid contagious virus that causes freaky symptons like eyes changing color, paralysis, and lesions

Electrolytes- Hydrating super juice that you add to chicken’s water to combat heat and/or stress

Blu-Kote- Blue germicidal stuff that you spray on your chickens wounds so they won’t peck each other to death

You can find a DIY blu-kote recipe in the DIY section, it’s cheap and easy and works like charm! You can find the DIY section here

Fly Predators- Little bugs that love to feast on the pupa of nasty flies. A great way to prevent fly infestations in your coop

Bumblefoot- an infection on the bottom of the chicken’s foot

Egg Bound- When a hen has an egg stuck in her hoo-hah

Dust Bath- The way your chickens get clean by rolling around in the dirt and flapping their wings

Molt- Chickens shed some to most of their feathers and grow new ones. Highly embarrassing times for your birds.

Quarantine- Keeping certain chickens separate for a set amount of time. Do this if they’re sick or new to the flock

Newcastle Disease- Gross contagious poultry virus that can be passed to humans

Diatomaceous Earth (DE)- The fossilized remains of old ass plankton. It’s a super dust that’s great for dust baths and treating chickens for parasites like lice

To learn more about the different diseases that affect chickens and poultry head to my health page here.