8 Natural Remedies For Chickens

As a Poultry farmer, you don't need to go a far distance to get a remedy for your chicken to survive and give you the profit you deserve. Those ingredients in your household will do a lot of miracles if taken into consideration.

Here are remedies you can consider for your chicken.

1. Black Pepper
2. Cayenne Pepper
3. Oregano
4. Cinnamon
5. Turmeric
6. Garlic
7. Apple Cider Vinegar
8. Ginger

1. Black Pepper

Black pepper contains a lot of vitamins and nutrients. It also functions as an anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and antioxidant. In addition, it helps flush toxins and absorb nutrients from its food sources. Chickens are prone to respiratory problems. Adding a few pinches of black pepper to their feed or in their water can help prevent respiratory problems and ease coughing.

2. Cayenne Pepper

For many years, farmers normally add pepper to chicken and duck feed or water to boost egg production. Worm diseases are known to hamper the flock’s ability to reproduce in which cayenne pepper is a very effective remedy. Cayenne pepper burns parasites that make their way into the digestive system. Simply add half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper to your chicken feed as a natural way to deworm them.

3. Oregano

The essential oil of Oregano is a natural antibiotic. Oregano can be given to ducks and chickens in the form of essential oil, fresh or dried. It can help prevent coccidiosis, blackhead, E.coli, avian flu, and bronchitis. You can add dried oregano to feed or water or simply sprinkle them in the brooder or coop as a free-choice snack. Add extra oregano to the diet of laying hens to give them an added immune system booster.

4. Cinnamon

Cinnamon reduces inflammation and boasts anti-infectious, antibacterial and antioxidant properties as well.

It also aids in the prevention of neurological disease.

A compound in the spice helps enhance blood flow to the feet, wattles, and combs to ward off frostbite.

It also may help with the prevention of congestion, coughing, infection, and respiratory problems.

5. Turmeric

Turmeric is best known for its powerful antibiotic and anti-inflammatory properties.

If your chickens or ducks get “Bumblefoot” – intense and highly visible swelling of the foot or lower leg, turmeric can likely help.

Chicks that are unable to hold their head up properly can benefit from adding a pinch of turmeric to their feed.

Turmeric also helps boost a hen’s immunity to fight infection by adding 1/2 teaspoon to its feed.

6. Garlic

Garlic not only helps boost the respiratory and immune systems, but it also helps to repel ticks, mites, lice and other common parasites who like to claim the members of your flock for their new home.

It also serves as a natural wormer and may even reduce the stench of manure by adding to the feed regularly.

You can also float whole cloves in the waterer to administer the spice to your flock.

Sprinkle a pinch or two of garlic powder over dry feed as a natural health supplement for the flock.

7. Apple Cider Vinegar

Add a teaspoon of the vinegar to the water twice a week during the warm weather months to help *boost calcium absorption*.

It is known that hens struggle with calcium absorption in the summer far more than any other members of the flock.

As a result, a drop in calcium will likely cause laying issues and negatively impact eggshell hardiness.

8. Ginger

If a member of the flock has lost its appetite, ginger just might do the trick and spark a desire to eat again.

The spice is also often used to help ease an upset stomach, reduce congestion, and as an immune system booster.

Ginger also boasts strong anti-inflammatory and anti-viral properties.

Add a small pinch of dried ginger to feed or cast inside the chicken or duck habitat as a free-choice supplement.

A pinch of dried ginger can also promote the production of large eggs