NATURAL REMEDIES TO PROTECT OUR HENS FROM DISEASES

Providing adequate feed to the laying hens and if we put in place preventive measures to keep them healthy, the production of eggs and meat will guarantee the demand of food for the family. This is why we have to know that the hens also get sick, and we must be prepared. So today I'm going to talk about natural remedies for our chickens, remedies that have been used for many to prevent diseases of our favorite layers.

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GARLIC
Garlic is another of the tricks we have learned from our predecessors, it will help our chickens and keep them more vigorous.

Properties:
Garlic is the best natural vermicide that exists, its properties are innumerable: Vermicide, diuretic, antiseptic, circulatory stimulant, antirheumatic, antiparasitic, dilator blood vessels, eliminates tapeworm, contains vitamins A-B1-B2-C .

How to use:
Garlic can be given directly to the hen either crushed in the feeder or leaving it in sight, so she who knows how well it will go eating little by little, another trick is to leave a crushed garlic in the drinker in this way anger releases its properties gradually.

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NETTLE
That plant that we hate so much when we notice its urticating caress is not only good for the hen, but it will devour it without a trace.

Properties:
Used as a restorative tonic, having flavonoids is a great antioxidant and analgesic.

How to use:
It can be used fresh or dried, an infusion is made which is added to the drinking water.

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THE THYME
Following with the grandmothers' classics we find thyme, aromatic and healthy.

Properties:
To its antimicrobial, antiseptic properties, we must add its expectorant, mucolytic properties. It is said that the Egyptians already used it to mummify their dead due to their antimicrobial qualities. Ideal to treat colds and colds in birds.

How to use:
The thyme is boiled in water and they are given that water once cooled in the drinking fountain.

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THE ONION
The same onion that makes us cry while we cook can also help us in our struggle to have the henst hens.

Properties:
Onion, along with garlic, is one of the best natural antibiotics. Because of its content in sulfur-rich compounds, it is one of the best natural remedies to help prevent infectious processes of a respiratory nature.

How to use:
Like thyme you can make an infusion to drink or simply give it to the feeder and let them do the rest.

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THE ALOE VERA
Among humans aloe vera is known for its great healing power (apart from different cosmetics) For the hens it would not be less effective.

Properties:
The properties of aloe vera have traditionally been used to fight many infectious diseases in chickens, such as smallpox, or as a powerful wound healing for birds.

How to use:
A leaf is cut and the sap is directly spread where the chicken has smallpox or the wound. If the animal has calluses it is crushed with a not very tight bandage.

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CELERY
Celery, also known as the big brother of parsley, will be of great help to prevent lameness.

Properties:
Indicated for birds with high levels of uric acid which causes them lameness, by accumulation of these in joints, tendons or ligaments. It is also a good expectorant, it is used to expel mucus.

Anti stress:
Reduce the stress of our birds. To reduce uric acid and prevent the appearance of crystals.

How to use:
Like the onion, it can be eaten directly or infused in water.

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THE PEPPER
Pepper has been used for many years to prevent diseases in laying hens. It is for this reason that our grandmothers made a peppercorn in chicks fresh from the shell and keep them alive and strong, it may seem that by the proportion of size we can hurt them and it can sting a lot, but it is not like that, They do not notice the itch at all, it's more they eat it as if it were feed.

Then we can say that properties are attributed to it: Digestive of purifying nature and antiparasitic: It is ideal to avoid sandy faeces in birds.

Thermogenic properties:
Due to the alkaloids it contains such as capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillil-6-nonenamide, C18H27NO3) and other similar compounds, it stimulates the heat and pain receptors of the epidermis, thus causing a more intense blood supply in the chicks .

Respiratory properties:
When the chicks begin to digest it, they are attributed antiseptic and decongesting properties, help to eliminate congestion of any kind in the respiratory tube of the chicks.

How to use:
For large birds you can give them whole grains, crush them in the feed or coat a piece of bacon with chopped pepper and make them gobble it up. For chicks they are usually given a peppercorn to each, by manual introduction by the beak.

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APPLE VINAGER
As in people, apple cider vinegar is very healthy.

Properties:
It is a great intestinal cleanser, thanks to the fact that it has acetic acid, so it helps to fight constipation, and malignant bacteria die before its contact. It is also a great intestinal dewormer. It is depurative and digestive.
Apple cider vinegar, contains, potassium, iron, calcium, selenium, magnesium, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine, also vitamins, abcde-b1-b2-b6, to more prevents intestinal bacteria and fungi, being ideal for shine of the plumage.

How to use:
Apple cider vinegar is used by putting a few drops in the sprue mixed with the water.

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LEMON JUICE:
It is a good disinfectant, dewormer and a large vitamin.

How to use:
Pour the juice of a lemon in a liter of water and give it to our chickens, use it in case you see that the stools are lying or bloody.

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MILK:
Because it is very digestive and its content in proteins, fats, mineral salts, carbohydrates, vitamins B, A and D, it is one of the most excellent foods for our hens, primarily indicated in breeding periods, broodstock and intensive putting. The products derived from it are given to the birds in a discretionary way, especially to the chicks from birth to four months, with which we will obtain vigorous chicks.

How to use:
The milk will be administered in clay or plastic drinking troughs to avoid oxidation in the milk. The mixtures with milk of the feed powder will be given to our hens, with this feeding we will accelerate their fattening.

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BARLEY:
Its protein richness is similar to that of oats, it is rich in fats, cellulose and salts of calcium and phosphorus, both in grain and in flour it is a good feed for birds, and we can give it in all the breeding phases, It can be a substitute for oats provided the mixture is supplemented with mineral salts.

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OLIVE OIL:
We will use it for weak hens, in crude you can mix it with feed, it will avoid to the hens problems of constipation, lack of vitamins and fatty acids and infectious processes. You can also give them the olives directly.

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http://mascotas.facilisimo.com/remedios-naturales-para-las-gallinas_556377.html
http://lasgallinasdecarlos.blogspot.com/p/remedios-naturales-para-las-gallinas.html

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