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Chicken Care Certification <br />•Learning Outcomes <br />•Providing a safe, comfortable, enriched home and beautiful spaces to share with your birds <br />•How to identify reliably sourced, accurate information about care <br />•Proper handling, feeding, common health issues <br />•Caring for a sick or injured bird <br />•Grooming, beak, nail and spur trimming <br />•How to give meds and treat for parasites, choosing a vet <br />•Socialization and managing behavior problems <br />•How to introduce the birds to dogs or cats in the family <br />•Predator prevention <br />•Sanitation and cleaning strategies <br />•Maintaining good neighbor relations <br />•Navigating the permit process (specific to Minneapolis) <br />•Why chickens in the wild can live thirty years, but contemporary laying hens develop fatal reproductive diseases beginning at the age of two <br />•How lovable roosters are, yet for every laying hen, there is a dead or abandoned rooster <br />•How to protect chickens (aka Tropical Jungle Fowl) in Minnesota’s extreme climate <br />Source: Chicken Run Rescue