Maat van Uitert is a backyard chicken and sustainable living expert. She is also the author of Chickens: Naturally Raising A Sustainable Flock, which was a best seller in it’s Amazon category. Maat has been featured on NBC, CBS, AOL Finance, Community Chickens, the Huffington Post, Chickens magazine, Backyard Poultry, and Countryside Magazine. She lives on her farm in Southeast Missouri with her husband, two children, and about a million chickens and ducks. You can follow Maat on Facebook here and Instagram here.
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I also believe in acv and have used it faithfully for my flock. But recently I acquired a frizzled serama cockeral . He has had horrible digestive issues non stop. every poop was diahrea. I had run out of acv and gave him reg water. I noticed from then on he has great formed poop. So maybe, it’s not for every chicken..