Chicken Health & Poorly Hen Care Course

A practical course, including chicken first aid for chicken keepers!

When you’ve got a sick bird at home, don’t waste valuable time on social media or Dr Google!

Be prepared with the knowledge and practical skills to help!

This vet-led course will give you the answers you can trust.

Chicken Health and poorly hen care course filmed 30/11/24. Video credit Karen’s Kind.

This 4-5 hour course teaches you how to:

  • Thoroughly health check your birds (presentation and discussion)

  • Identify illness in birds (video, presentation and discussion)

  • Visiting a vet – the reduced stress version! (presentation)

  • Keep your birds healthy (presentation)

  • Identify common health problems including; parasites, crop issues, reproductive disease, respiratory disease, diarrhoea, bumblefoot and much more (presentation)

  • Supportively care for sick birds at home (presentation and demonstration)

  • First aid kit essentials, and when to use them (presentation and demonstration)

  • Crop tube feeding – safety essentials! (video, presentation and practical)

  • Basic bandaging (video and practical)

  • Understand emergency euthanasia at home - (discussion and demonstration using models)

  • Q&A – opportunity to ask a poultry vet anything about chickens!

  • Goodie bag

    Tea/coffee and biscuits provided

Complete the form below to register your interest

A woman (Sharon Evans, poultry vet) is smiling and helping two other woman apply foot bandages to a toy chicken as part of a training. The course is held in a classroom.
A woman (Sharon Evans) sitting on a table, holding a chicken, giving a presentation on chicken health check, with a large diagram of a chicken's anatomy on the table, a laptop, and a projection screen showing image instructions of holding a chicken.

When: Please complete the form below to join the waiting list. New dates will be announced first in my monthly newsletter.

Where: Little Stoke Community Hall, Little Stoke Ln, Little Stoke, Bristol BS34 6HR What3words: ///begin.part.improving

Who: Intermediate to advanced chicken keepers, but anyone with an interest in chicken health is welcome!

Why: There’s much information out there for chicken keepers, but it's not all reliable! I provide safe, effective, helpful advice for chicken keepers. I’m an experienced poultry vet, and this is my passion!

The course course costs £79 per person.

Please note: This course is not intended to be a replacement for veterinary care! The course aim is to help you keep your birds healthy, recognise when they are poorly, and give you practical skills to offer supportive care at home.

This course is not recommended for those under 18 years of age.