A Healthy Home Flock: A Complete Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens and Chicks Happy and Healthy - Plus internal and external ailments, first aid, predator proofing, and nutrition

Keep your backyard chickens happy, thriving, and free from illness with this essential guide to problem prevention, health care, and confident flock management.

Backyard chicken keeping is endlessly rewarding, but it’s not without challenges. Chickens are surprisingly complex creatures, prone to issues ranging from minor ailments to serious health concerns. In A Healthy Home Flock, author Nikki Husted of Purely Chickens offers her clear, compassionate, and practical approach to chicken care, teaching you how to recognize the signs of good health, catch problems early, and provide effective treatment when trouble strikes.

Illustrated with detailed color photographs and written in plain language every chicken keeper can understand, this guide empowers you to handle everything from common first aid to nutritional support and disease prevention with ease. Whether you have a handful of hens or a growing flock, you’ll gain the knowledge to keep your birds in top condition for years to come.

Inside A Healthy Home Flock, you’ll discover:

• How to identify signs of good (and poor) health through behavior, posture, appearance . . . and poop!
• Guidance for preventing and treating common conditions like parasites, frostbite, spraddle leg, and egg binding.
• Step-by-step instructions for setting up and using a chicken first aid kit.
• Tips for protecting your flock from predators and environmental stressors.
• Essential advice on nutrition, feed, and supplements that support long-term flock health.
• Includes profiles of over 50 common internal and external ailments, with treatment and prevention plans for each.

Practical, reassuring, and filled with field-tested advice , A Healthy Home Flock equips you with the confidence and know-how to raise healthy, resilient birds from hatch to adulthood.

Nikki Husted is a former public school teacher who “dropped out of school” to live the homesteader life with her family. While she enjoys gardening, composting, and canning, her primary focus is on chicken keeping. After she started sharing her adventures online, she quickly found a community of like-minded chicken keepers and homesteaders on TikTok, where she posts as Purely Chickens. She brings her expertise to the page in her books Chicken Keeping Pure and Simple and A Healthy Home Flock. Find her online as @purelychickens or at her website: purelychickens.com.