Author: Elliott Garber, DVM
From Droopy to Diagnosed: A Practical Guide to Flock Health
You walk out to the coop, and something is off. A single hen is standing apart from the flock, feathers ruffled, looking lethargic. Maybe another bird has a dirty vent, a cough, or a limp that wasn’t there yesterday. In a small flock, those little changes are often the first sign that you need to act fast.
That’s the hard part about chicken diseases and symptoms. Early signs are often vague. A bird looks droopy, eats less, or hangs back at the feeder. By the time the problem is obvious, you may be dealing with something contagious, something chronic, or something that has already spread through the litter, air, or water.
Serious flock owners learn to separate panic from pattern. You don’t need to diagnose every case on sight, but you do need to know what deserves isolation, what needs a call to your veterinarian, and what management mistakes keep repeating the same disease cycle. Good flock medicine is part observation, part sanitation, part timing.
This guide breaks down 10 common and serious problems you’re likely to hear about or encounter in poultry. For each one, the focus is practical: what it looks like on the ground, what to do first, what usually helps, and what usually doesn’t. I also cover how to use Creatures to log symptoms, vaccinations, testing, and sale records so you can make better decisions and prove flock history when it matters.
If you’re improving your own setup, clean organization matters in the clinic too, especially with specialized veterinary lab furniture that supports sample handling and record flow.
Table of Contents
- 1. Newcastle Disease ND
- What it looks like in the coop
- What works and what does not
- 2. Marek’s Disease MD
- Classic signs and the birds it hits
- Where Creatures helps
- 3. Infectious Bronchitis IB
- The symptom pattern
- Management that changes the outcome
- 4. Coccidiosis
- What to watch for in young birds
- Control comes from the environment
- 5. Avian Influenza AI
- Why sudden death matters
- The first steps that matter most
- 6. Infectious Laryngotracheitis ILT
- How ILT tends to present
- Where flock owners go wrong
- 7. Fowl Pox
- Dry pox versus wet pox
- Practical flock control
- 8. Pullorum Disease and Typhoid
- Why testing matters more than appearance
- Best buying and breeding habits
- 9. Chronic Respiratory Disease CRD and Air Saculitis
- What this problem looks like in real life
- Practical control steps that actually change outcomes
- 10. Gumboro Disease Infectious Bursal Disease
- What makes this disease different
- What to log and monitor
- 10 Common Chicken Diseases, Symptoms Comparison
- Turning Records into Resilience Your Next Step
1. Newcastle Disease ND
Newcastle disease deserves immediate respect because it can move through a flock fast and hit multiple body systems at once. With virulent strains, birds may show respiratory distress, greenish watery diarrhea, tremors, drooping wings, head twisting, paralysis, a sharp drop in egg production, or sudden death. In unvaccinated flocks, mortality in chickens can reach 90 to 100%, and some outbreaks can kill up to 100% of unvaccinated flocks, as summarized in the NPIP overview of Exotic Newcastle Disease history and control.
What it looks like in the coop
One bird gasping doesn’t prove Newcastle disease. Several birds with coughing, nervous signs, or sudden unexplained deaths should raise concern quickly. If eggs suddenly become thin-shelled or shell-less at the same time birds start looking sick, I take that combination seriously.
A lot of owners lose time trying home remedies first. That’s a mistake with a reportable, high-consequence disease. If you buy and sell birds through a chicken profile on Creatures, keep vaccination dates, purchase records, and new-bird introductions attached to each bird or group so you can reconstruct exposure history fast.
Practical rule: Any flock with sudden deaths plus respiratory or neurologic signs gets isolated from traffic immediately. Don’t wait for a second bad day.
What works and what does not
Vaccination and biosecurity work. Wishful thinking doesn’t. The United States has been END-free since 1974 through strict control efforts, and vaccination can provide protection when done correctly. By contrast, casual bird swapping, shared crates, and skipping quarantine are how backyard flocks get burned.
Useful steps include:
- Separate arrivals: Keep new birds away from the resident flock before mixing.
- Control traffic: Don’t share feeders, waterers, carriers, or boots between flocks without cleaning.
- Document every vaccine: Creatures works well for hatch dates, lot notes, boosters, and buyer-facing proof.
- Get diagnostics early: Respiratory disease is one category. Newcastle disease is a specific emergency.
2. Marek’s Disease MD
Marek’s disease is one of the classic causes of heartbreak in young chickens because it can look like several different problems before the pattern becomes clear. It’s caused by gallid alphaherpesvirus 2, spreads through feather dander, and typically shows up in birds aged 4 to 16 weeks with signs that can include leg, wing, or neck paralysis, weight loss, vision changes, and tumors in nerves or organs. Historically it was devastating, capable of causing severe losses in susceptible, unvaccinated flocks.

Classic signs and the birds it hits
The classic field sign is leg paralysis, sometimes with one leg stretched forward and the other back. But don’t get locked onto that one picture. Some birds just waste away, go pale, stop thriving, or develop odd eye changes before obvious paralysis appears.
In severe outbreaks, mortality can reach very high levels in unvaccinated flocks. That’s why hatchery vaccination changed everything. Day-old or in-ovo vaccination, introduced around 1970, became a standard prevention tool and is now routine in commercial hatcheries, which sharply reduced losses.
Where Creatures helps
Marek’s is a record-keeping disease as much as a vaccination disease in small flocks. If you don’t know which chicks were vaccinated at hatch, who came from which breeder, or when a neurologic bird first showed signs, you’re guessing.
Use Creatures to log:
- Vaccination history: Record hatchery Marek’s vaccination at day-old placement.
- Family lines: Track which breeder groups produce birds that stay healthy versus birds that repeatedly fail.
- Symptom photos: Upload eye changes, posture changes, and gait videos over time.
- Sales transparency: If you sell started pullets, share flock history rather than making verbal assurances.
Vaccinated and unvaccinated birds mixed together create confusion fast. If there’s no clear history, assume the flock record is incomplete and fix that first.
3. Infectious Bronchitis IB
Infectious bronchitis is one of those diseases that can fool a flock owner into thinking it’s “just a cold.” It isn’t. This coronavirus-based respiratory disease can move quickly, especially in young birds, and the consequences aren’t limited to coughing. Some flocks also deal with kidney involvement or long-term reproductive damage in pullets that looked like they recovered.
The symptom pattern
The usual starting point is respiratory noise. Sneezing, coughing, watery eyes, nasal discharge, and birds that seem quieter than usual are common field signs. In layers, you may also see a sudden drop in egg quality, odd shell texture, or poor shell formation.
Not every respiratory outbreak is IB, and that matters. The same barn can produce similar signs from ammonia, mycoplasma, Newcastle disease, or mixed infections. That’s why “I treated the cough” often isn’t a real answer.
Management that changes the outcome
Supportive care matters more than random medication. Birds need dry bedding, steady temperatures, low dust, good airflow, and clean water. If the coop is damp and stale, respiratory disease always looks worse.
There’s also a vaccine matching issue. Multiple serotypes circulate, so a vaccine plan has to fit local pressure and your veterinarian’s guidance. Throwing the wrong vaccine at the wrong timing may leave owners feeling protected when they aren’t.
A practical approach is to keep a dated flock log that includes first symptom, age group affected, environmental changes, and whether egg production changed. If you later run diagnostics, that timeline helps make sense of the result. Creatures is useful here because the same health profile can hold vaccination records, egg-production notes, and lab uploads in one place instead of scattered texts and notebook pages.
4. Coccidiosis
Coccidiosis is common, expensive, and often partly self-inflicted by management. It’s caused by Eimeria parasites that damage the intestinal lining, and it usually hits young chickens hardest. Bloody diarrhea is the symptom many people know, but that’s not the only presentation. Some birds just hunch, go off feed, lose condition, and stop growing properly.
What to watch for in young birds
Brooder and grow-out birds are where I watch closest. A group that was active yesterday and is now chilled-looking, dirty behind, and reluctant to move needs attention. In the broader mortality picture for backyard chicken flocks in low- and middle-income countries, parasitic diseases account for 8.5% of losses per production cycle, based on this meta-analysis of backyard flock mortality causes.
That figure matters because coccidiosis often rides alongside management failures. Wet litter, crowded drinkers, spilled feed, and poor brooder cleanup all build the problem.
Control comes from the environment
Medication has a role, but litter management is the essential engine of control. If bedding stays wet under waterers, you’re feeding the parasite. If birds scratch feed into manure and eat it, you’re recycling exposure.
Use these habits consistently:
- Keep litter dry: Replace wet spots fast, especially around drinkers.
- Raise equipment: Higher feeders and waterers cut fecal contamination.
- Clean between groups: Brooders need a hard reset between batches.
- Track species separately: Mixed waterfowl and poultry setups can complicate sanitation, especially if you also keep ducks on the same property.
Owners often ask whether a one-time treatment “solves” coccidiosis. Usually, no. Treatment helps sick birds. Management keeps the next group from seeing the same problem.
5. Avian Influenza AI
Avian influenza belongs in the category of diseases you don’t try to handle casually. Some birds show respiratory signs, swelling, depression, or diarrhea. Others die before anyone notices much else. That’s why sudden death in more than one bird is never something to brush off in poultry medicine.

Why sudden death matters
Highly pathogenic avian influenza can kill fast. Diagnostic labs rely heavily on rapid PCR-based testing, which offers high sensitivity and specificity for detecting and subtyping the virus and is now the standard method for confirming and differentiating avian influenza strains. For flock owners, the practical point is simple. Early testing beats guessing.
If you also keep mixed poultry species, don’t treat the chicken yard as separate from the rest of the property. A turkey listing or profile on Creatures should have its own health record, movement record, and contact history because species boundaries on paper don’t stop pathogens.
The first steps that matter most
If birds are collapsing, stop movement. No sales, no swaps, no visitors walking from pen to pen, no shared feed scoops. Call your veterinarian or state animal health contact and ask what testing path they want.
Report suspected avian influenza quickly when sudden deaths cluster. Delays create bigger flock losses and bigger tracing problems.
What works is boring but effective. Dedicated boots, clean clothing, wild bird exclusion, secure feed storage, and strict isolation of new arrivals all reduce exposure opportunities. What doesn’t work is assuming your flock is safe because it’s small, pretty, or fenced.
6. Infectious Laryngotracheitis ILT
ILT is one of the more dramatic respiratory diseases because the trachea is the main battlefield. When birds start stretching their necks, struggling for air, or coughing up bloody mucus in severe cases, owners remember it. Even milder cases can leave a flock with persistent respiratory stress and a lot of confusion if the disease isn’t recognized early.
How ILT tends to present
Older chicks and adult birds are the ones I watch most closely. You may see watery eyes, gasping, rattling, coughing, reduced feed intake, and birds that look distressed without the swollen-face picture you might expect with some other respiratory problems.
The severe presentation gets attention fast. The mild form is easier to miss and easier to spread because owners keep moving birds, selling birds, or attending swaps while telling themselves it’s just dust.
Where flock owners go wrong
ILT punishes loose biosecurity. Herpesviruses are good at hanging around in birds, and stress can reopen the problem in a flock that seemed settled. That means control depends on management discipline, not just treatment attempts.
The common mistakes are predictable:
- Buying birds from unknown health backgrounds: A pretty bird at auction can bring a long respiratory problem home.
- Skipping quarantine: New birds should never go straight into the resident flock.
- Ignoring air quality: High ammonia and crowding worsen respiratory damage.
- Stopping observation too soon: A bird that improves can still fit into a larger flock pattern.
Creatures helps when you use it like a real flock ledger. Keep notes on quarantine start date, symptom onset, vaccination history where applicable, and whether any bird came from a sale, show, or swap. That kind of timeline often tells the story before a lab report does.
7. Fowl Pox
Fowl pox usually moves slower than the fast respiratory viruses, which can make owners underestimate it. They shouldn’t. The dry form can spread through a flock with scabby lesions on combs, wattles, eyelids, and other unfeathered skin. The wet form is more serious because lesions inside the mouth or upper airway can interfere with eating and breathing.

Dry pox versus wet pox
Dry pox often announces itself as rough, dark scabs on the comb or around the face. Birds may still act fairly normal at first. Wet pox is the one that raises the stakes because birds can become reluctant to eat, lose weight, or show respiratory difficulty if lesions build in the mouth and throat.
Mosquito pressure often lines up with outbreaks in free-range settings. I’ve seen owners focus on ointments and ignore the insects. That treats the visible part, not the transmission route.
Practical flock control
Isolation helps, but vector control matters too. Drain standing water, reduce mosquito habitat, and keep housing clean enough that secondary infection doesn’t become the bigger problem. Don’t pick at lesions aggressively. Damaged skin invites bacteria.
For management, I’d prioritize:
- Mosquito control: Reduce standing water and insect pressure around coops.
- Breeder planning: Keep vaccination dates and breeder groups documented if you use a pox vaccine.
- Mouth checks: Any bird losing weight with facial lesions deserves an oral exam.
- Sales honesty: Birds recovering from visible lesions shouldn’t move through a marketplace without disclosure and dated photos.
A dated photo record inside Creatures is especially helpful here because pox lesions change visibly over time. You can show progression, healing, and whether a bird was withdrawn from sale while recovering.
8. Pullorum Disease and Typhoid
Pullorum disease and fowl typhoid are bacterial diseases that matter not just because they make birds sick, but because they shape breeding and sales decisions. Chicks may die of septicemia. Adults may survive and remain carriers. That’s the part small flock owners underestimate. A bird can look decent and still be a bad foundation animal.
Why testing matters more than appearance
You can’t eyeball your way to a clean flock. A clean-looking coop, bright plumage, and a seller’s reassurance don’t replace documented testing. If you breed, hatch, or sell birds, formal flock records stop being paperwork and start being risk control.
The best small-flock habit is simple. Buy from tested sources and keep the documents. If a seller can’t tell you what flock monitoring exists for salmonella-related issues, take that as useful information.
Best buying and breeding habits
A lot of eradication progress in poultry came from testing programs, hatchery screening, and refusing to keep positive breeding stock in circulation. Backyard owners should borrow that discipline.
Use a written process:
- Ask for test documentation: Not a verbal claim. Actual flock status records.
- Record source flock information: Hatchery, breeder, acquisition date, and any certificate numbers.
- Cull hard decisions from breeding plans: Don’t keep suspect birds in a breeding group out of sentiment.
- Store results permanently: Creatures is useful for attaching test results directly to breeder profiles and offspring groups.
Good breeding programs are built as much on what you exclude as on what you hatch.
If you ever need to prove flock health to a buyer, another breeder, or your veterinarian, organized records matter more than memory.
9. Chronic Respiratory Disease CRD and Air Saculitis
You walk into the coop and hear the same light rattle you heard last week. A few birds have foamy eyes. One is sneezing. Another has dropped off in body condition, but none look sick enough to force an obvious decision. That is how CRD often shows up on small farms. It lingers, chips away at performance, and keeps returning when weather, dust, crowding, or ammonia put birds under pressure.
Mycoplasma gallisepticum is a common cause, and secondary bacteria often pile on. The result is a flock that never quite settles. Birds may eat, move, and lay, but not at the level they should.
What this problem looks like in real life
Expect a slow pattern rather than a dramatic crash. Common signs include sneezing, mild nasal discharge, foamy or watery eyes, open-mouth breathing in more affected birds, reduced growth, and a drop in egg production. Air saculitis may not be obvious from across the yard, but it shows up later as poor thrift, lower feed efficiency, and birds that struggle after any added stress.
CRD is frustrating because treatment and control are not the same thing.
Antibiotics may reduce the bacterial load during a flare-up and help birds breathe easier, but they do not clear mycoplasma from a flock in the way many owners hope. Birds can remain carriers. That matters if you hatch your own chicks, sell started pullets, or keep breeding stock. A line with recurring respiratory issues can keep costing you long after the coughing stops.
Practical control steps that actually change outcomes
Start with management before reaching for another medication. On most small farms, the biggest gains come from cleaner air and better sourcing.
- Buy from reputable, monitored sources: If you bring in one carrier bird, you may be managing this problem for years.
- Improve ventilation: Remove stale, damp air without creating a cold draft on roosting birds.
- Keep litter dry: Wet bedding drives ammonia, and ammonia irritates the respiratory tract fast.
- Reduce dust: Fine feed dust and dirty bedding make mild respiratory disease worse.
- Separate age groups where possible: Younger birds are easier to infect when mixed with older carriers.
- Review breeding decisions: Repeated respiratory trouble in one family line is a reason to stop reproducing that line.
Record-keeping helps more than many flock owners expect. In Creatures, log the first day you hear respiratory noise, note which pen is affected, attach photos of eye and nostril discharge, and record any treatment used and response. Over a season, patterns usually show up clearly. One barn may have poor airflow. One breeder group may keep producing birds with the same weakness. One purchased batch may be the point where the problem entered the flock.
That kind of traceability turns a vague flock complaint into a management decision.
10. Gumboro Disease Infectious Bursal Disease
Gumboro disease, also called infectious bursal disease, is different from many of the other diseases on this list because the biggest damage is often indirect. The virus targets the bursa of Fabricius, which is central to immune function in young birds. So the problem isn’t just the initial illness. It’s what follows when the bird’s immune system can’t respond normally.
What makes this disease different
Young broilers are the classic group of concern. Birds may look depressed, ruffled, dehydrated, or reluctant to move, and then they become easier targets for secondary infections. That’s why a flock can seem to have “one thing after another” after an IBD hit.
This is also where prevention planning pays off more than reaction. Vaccine timing matters, and so does maternal antibody support in breeding stock. If local strains shift or vaccinated birds still break with disease, that’s a signal to review the full program instead of blaming one bad batch.
What to log and monitor
For this disease, timing is everything. You want records that show hatch date, vaccine date, booster date where used, source hatchery, and any unusual disease pressure in that age window. If those details are sloppy, it becomes hard to know whether the issue was vaccine handling, timing, strain pressure, or simple exposure before protection developed.
The practical routine I recommend is:
- Track by age group: Don’t lump all birds into one health note.
- Note secondary infections: These often tell you the immune system took a hit.
- Review brooder stressors: Temperature swings, crowding, and poor ventilation make recovery harder.
- Store the full history: Creatures gives you a place to keep vaccination, symptoms, and test files together for future flocks.
When owners treat every sick group like a separate mystery, they miss the underlying immunosuppression story. Good records make that pattern visible.
10 Common Chicken Diseases, Symptoms Comparison
| Disease | Implementation Complexity | Resource Requirements | Expected Outcomes | Ideal Use Cases | Key Advantages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newcastle Disease (ND) | High, coordinated vaccination schedule, strict quarantine and rapid response | Vaccines, diagnostics, biosecurity, possible depopulation | With vaccination/biosecurity: control and reduced mortality; without: rapid spread, high mortality | Routine vaccination for commercial/backyard flocks; outbreak containment | Widely available affordable vaccines; clear clinical signs enable early detection |
| Marek’s Disease (MD) | Moderate, day‑old vaccination, breeder management, genetic selection | Day‑old vaccines, breeder programs, sanitation between flocks | Vaccination prevents disease (not infection); lowers tumors and mortality | Vaccinate day‑old chicks; breeding programs selecting resistance | Long‑established effective vaccine; genetic resistance available |
| Infectious Bronchitis (IB) | Moderate–High, requires matching vaccine strains and multi‑dose schedules | Strain‑specific vaccines, diagnostics, ventilation and management | Good control if vaccine matches local serotypes; mismatch reduces efficacy | Broiler/layer programs with serotype monitoring and targeted vaccination | Live/inactivated vaccines available; supportive care reduces losses |
| Coccidiosis | Moderate, litter and management practices plus chemoprophylaxis/vaccination | Anticoccidials, live vaccines (layers), litter management, monitoring | Early treatment and control → good prognosis; unmanaged → growth loss, mortality | Young chicks/broilers in high‑density/poor sanitation environments | Effective anticoccidials and vaccines; acquired immunity possible |
| Avian Influenza (AI) | Very High, strict biosecurity, surveillance, regulatory responses, possible mass depopulation | Rapid diagnostics, strict biosecurity, reporting systems, possible culling; limited regional vaccination | HPAI: rapid spread and very high mortality; control requires intensive measures; zoonotic risk | Emergency outbreak response, surveillance near wild bird routes, high‑security facilities | Rapid diagnostic tools; biosecurity highly effective at prevention in uninfected flocks |
| Infectious Laryngotracheitis (ILT) | Moderate, timed live vaccine use and measures to limit reactivation | Live attenuated vaccines, monitoring, stress reduction and biosecurity | Vaccination reduces clinical disease but latent virus persists and can reactivate | Layers/breeders and flocks with recurrent respiratory disease | Characteristic signs allow recognition; live vaccines provide good protection |
| Fowl Pox | Low–Moderate, routine vaccination and vector control (mosquitoes) | Wing‑web/intradermal vaccine, insect control, lesion care | Usually self‑limiting; vaccination or recovery gives lasting immunity; diphtheritic form more severe | Free‑range/backyard and breeder flocks; seasonal outbreaks in vector‑active areas | Effective vaccine; recovered birds gain long‑term immunity; generally low mortality |
| Pullorum Disease & Typhoid | High, testing, reporting, eradication and strict breeder certification | Regular serologic testing, certified hatcheries, biosecurity, mandatory culling in positives | Eradication possible with programs; carrier birds complicate control | Breeding/hatchery operations; sourcing certified stock | Reliable diagnostic screening and historical success of eradication programs |
| Chronic Respiratory Disease & Air Saculitis (CRD) | Moderate–High, maintain Mycoplasma‑free status; long‑term management | Serology/PCR, targeted antibiotics (temporary), ventilation and strict biosecurity | Chronic infection often persists; antibiotics relieve signs but may not eliminate pathogen | Broiler breeder and commercial flocks where Mycoplasma control is priority | Environmental controls and biosecurity reduce incidence; antibiotics provide short‑term improvement |
| Gumboro Disease (Infectious Bursal Disease) | Moderate, precisely timed vaccination to avoid maternal antibody interference | Live/inactivated vaccines, breeder immunization for maternal antibodies, monitoring for variants | Vaccination effective when timed correctly; prevents immunosuppression and secondary losses | Broilers (2–4 weeks) and breeder vaccination programs to provide maternal protection | Effective vaccines available; maternal antibodies confer early protection |
Turning Records into Resilience Your Next Step
Most flock losses don’t start with a dramatic emergency. They start with a subtle change that nobody wrote down. A hen that stopped laying. A cockerel with a mild limp. A grow-out group that never seemed to gain right after a damp week in the brooder. On their own, those details feel small. Over time, they become the map of your flock’s health.
That’s why practical disease control isn’t only about knowing chicken diseases and symptoms. It’s about building a system that helps you notice patterns early and act before the whole flock pays for one missed clue. Vaccines matter. Biosecurity matters. Diagnostics matter. But records tie all of that together.
I’ve seen plenty of owners remember the broad strokes and forget the details that change decisions. They know a bird was treated “sometime in spring.” They think the chicks were vaccinated, but aren’t sure at hatchery or on farm. They remember buying a trio from a swap meet, but not which date, breeder, or pen those birds came from. That’s how confusion enters a disease investigation.
A good flock record should answer basic, useful questions fast. Which birds came from which source? Which groups were vaccinated, and when? When did the first symptoms appear? Which birds shared housing, transport crates, breeding pens, or sale dates? If you can answer those quickly, your veterinarian can help you much faster, and your own culling, quarantine, and treatment decisions improve.
That’s where Creatures fits naturally into small-farm poultry management. Instead of keeping health history in three notebooks, old receipts, and your phone gallery, you can create a permanent profile for each bird or breeding group and attach the information where it belongs. Vaccination logs, medication dates, test results, photos of lesions, purchase records, pedigrees, and sale notes all stay connected. That’s useful when a bird gets sick. It’s just as useful when a bird stays healthy and you want to prove why a buyer should trust your flock.
Traceability also changes the sales side of poultry. Buyers are tired of vague claims about “healthy stock” or “closed flock” with no supporting history. When you can send a single record that shows vaccination history, breeder origin, and relevant health notes, you reduce friction and build confidence. That matters whether you’re selling hatching eggs, started pullets, breeding trios, or rare lines where reputation travels fast.
The other benefit is discipline. Once you start logging health events consistently, you notice your own management patterns. You see which pen always has wet litter, which source birds seem to bring respiratory trouble, which hatch dates line up with coccidiosis pressure, and which breeding groups stay the strongest season after season. That kind of feedback makes you a better flock manager.
Start. Create profiles for your birds or your breeding groups. Enter hatch dates, vaccine history, and source information. Add photos that show normal condition, not just disease. When something changes, log it the same day. A healthy flock tomorrow usually starts with one boring but powerful habit today. Write it down while it’s still clear.
Creatures gives poultry owners a practical way to turn observation into action. Build permanent profiles for birds and breeding groups, log vaccinations, medications, test results, pedigrees, and photos, then share a single trusted record with veterinarians, buyers, and partners. If you’re serious about healthier flocks and cleaner poultry sales, start using Creatures to organize your records before the next health problem forces you to.