As more owners are bringing their backyard chickens to avian veterinarians for care, more veterinarians are seeking to increase their knowledge and level of care for these birds. First and foremost, backyard chickens are birds, and all of our knowledge of avian medicine can be used in their care including general husbandry and care, handling, approach to medicine and surgery, and anatomy and physiology. Consult an avian textbook for general information on birds. This text will focus on those aspectsof information that are different if working on a backyard poultry species including care of the precocial chicks, husbandry, and common diseases and presentations of backyard poultry. Most information will concentrate on the chicken, although the term backyard poultry also includes turkeys, pheasants, ducks, geese, swans, quail, and other species.
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