Helping you raise healthy, happy backyard chickens, naturally

Give your flock the best life possible with chicken consultant and educator, Elise McNamara

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Hello, I'm Chicken Coach Elise McNamara, a chicken consultant, educator, author, writer and speaker.

Chicken Consultant and Educator Elise McNamara

Today, I help people like you avoid chicken parasites and diseases so that you can enjoy thriving, healthy, happy hens that will lay for years to come.

I'm also a mum to two young boys (aged 3 and 2) and now live in South West Victoria.

Chickens have been my love since I was a toddler in gumboots on my family's dairy farm. I've always bred and raised poultry. I've kept pure bred fowl as show birds and commercial layers (Isa Brown and Hy-Line Brown) for organic egg production in a chicken caravan.

But in 2010 I bought birds that introduced respiratory diseases to my flock. I spent thousands on vet bills trying to eradicate the problem.

This began my obsession with how we can use prevention to keep thriving, healthy birds, free of disease.

This has evolved into my approach of using natural solutions where possible. Commercial management methods such as "All In All Out" don't apply to pets.

Prevention through natural nutrition, excellent husbandry, and reducing stress is key.

And now I help poultry owners and farmers like you to do the same.

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