About the Author

Lacey Hughett

Lacey is an artist, author, mom, and homesteader based out of Reno, Nevada. She focuses on sustainability, heritage breed preservation, and ethical animal raising. She has been raising poultry since she was six years old. She be found on Instagram and Facebook at Hughett Heritage Farms.
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Articles by Lacey Hughett

Fowl Cholera
December 23, 2019 · · Flock Files

Fowl cholera is a highly contagious bacterial infection that affects multiple species of wild and domestic birds. Onset is sudden, with a high mortality and morbidity rate. Fowl cholera is found worldwide.

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Secret Life of Poultry: Our Old Place Farm
October 1, 2019 · · Chickens 101

Surprisingly, there isn’t as much information about disabilities in poultry as I’d imagined there’d be. It was while browsing the interwebs, searching for other similar stories as mine, where I encountered Lisa Johnson.

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Coryza
September 29, 2019 · · Ask The Expert, Feed & Health, Members Only

Coryza is an upper respiratory infection caused by a bacterium. It is highly contagious, with morbidity as high as 50% and mortality as high as 30%.

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Coryza
August 27, 2019 · · Flock Files

The bacterium causing coryza can survive in areas with little oxygen available, such as water or feces. This bacterium lives in chronically ill chickens that appear healthy but are carriers of the disease due to previously encountering it.

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Secret Life of Poultry: Fighting the Bite
August 1, 2019 · · Chickens 101, Members Only

Mosquitos suck. That’s their whole deal. But what does this have to do with chickens?

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Reilly Chicken Tenders
July 17, 2019 · · Chickens 101, Kids' Corner

At Margaret Reilly Elementary School, Kerriann Duffy, a second-grade teacher overheard a couple of staff members deciding what to do with an old incubator that they had stumbled across while cleaning out a storage shed on campus. She offered to take the machine and asked if anyone minded her incubating a few eggs.

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