MEDICINE TROUGH BEFORE INTRODUCING CHICKENS
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Remove all used items (food bags, cans, etc.) and throw them away from the sheds.
Start cleaning the ceiling.
starting from the walls and finishing with the floor
Wet the watering cans and
Soak all food and equipment used inside the sheds in virutec for half an hour, then rinse with plain water before spraying the insecticide to kill flying and crawling insects inside the shed.
Remember; Put virutec in the footbath at the door before bringing in the chicks.
Diseases are divided into two groups
- Fowl Tyfoid
- Paratyphoid
- Colibacillosis
- Infectious coryza (Cause)
- Coccidiosis
- Mycoplasmosis
Newcastle (Mdondo)
Gumboro
| Disease | Symptoms | Vaccine/Treatment |
| Newcastle Disease | Most sudden deaths Diarrhea Occurs anytime after two weeks | Vaccination 7 days, repeat after 21 days and after 12 weeks |
| Gumboro | Sudden death, folding wings down and huddling together, white diarrhea, the disease occurs from week 2 to 18 | Canjo day 10 to 14 Repeat day 28 and 42 for laying hens |
| Avian Leukosis Complex | Marecks affects chickens from three weeks of age, but is most often between 12 and 24 weeks. Symptoms include wing paralysis, swollen and dead legs, and swollen legs, liver, spleen, and kidneys. | Have Fruquin 1ml/2litre for three daysNutrivet 5g/20litre |
| Typhoid | Individual chicken deaths | Have Fruquin 0.5-1ml/litre for three daysNutrivet 5g/20litres |
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