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How to Improve Farming Efficiency When Raising Chickens in Winter and Spring
During the alternation of winter and spring, the weather is cold and green fodder is scarce. To achieve high efficiency when raising chickens at this time, the following points must be followed. Keeping warm: Low temperatures have a very obvious effect on laying hens. You can appropriately increase stocking density, close doors and windows, hang straw curtains, and use stoves for heating.
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Sharing Experience on the Prevention and Treatment of Common Winter Diseases in Domestic Rabbits
Low winter temperatures are unfavorable for the reproduction of pathogenic microorganisms. Therefore, there are relatively fewer diseases. However, because heat preservation and warming measures are generally adopted in winter, people tend to focus on heat preservation and warming while easily neglecting ventilation and air exchange, which increases the content of harmful gases in the rabbit house,
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How to prevent and treat infectious bursal disease in peafowl farming
Pathogen: The virus of this disease is infectious bursal disease virus, that is, infectious bursal disease is also called Gumboro disease, cloacal bursitis. The pathogen is an acute and highly virulent infectious disease caused by infectious bursal disease virus of the family Birnaviridae, genus Avibirnavirus. The virus has
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How to prevent and treat staphylococcosis in farmed pheasants?
1. Clinical symptoms: The sick pheasants are listless, eat less, and have ruffled feathers. Some sick pheasants have swollen joints, especially the metatarsal and toe joints, which are painful when squeezed, making standing and walking difficult, with lameness. Some sick pheasants have diarrhea and pass yellow-green watery droppings. 2. Necropsy changes: Necropsy
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Common Diseases and Predator-Pest Control Techniques in Freshwater Crayfish Farming
Freshwater crayfish rarely suffer from diseases under natural conditions, but with the expansion of high-density artificial farming, freshwater crayfish farming also faces the risk of disease outbreaks. Therefore, the principle of "prevention first" must be adhered to, and disease prevention and control work must be done well. (I) Disease prevention 1. Thorough pond clearing
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How to prevent and treat vibriosis in rainbow trout farming? A detailed practical guide
1. Symptoms: Diseased fish feed poorly, the body color darkens, the bases of all fins become congested, the body surface, oral cavity and anus become red and hemorrhagic, and the gill filaments are anemic and slightly pale. Some fish have protruding eyeballs. Larger fish or adult fish often show signs on the body surface such as erosion, rupture, whitening, dermal ulceration and muscle
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Control methods for common diseases in mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) farming
1 Mite infestation Mite damage is prone to occur from July to September, and feed carrying mite eggs is the main cause of mite infestation. Therefore, mealworm feed should be stored sealed during this season, and rice bran, wheat bran, mixed coarse grain flour, and coarse cornmeal are best sun-dried for disinfection before feeding. Another point that cannot
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Four Must-Dos for Duck Farming: Getting These Four Points Right Is Crucial
Duck disease is the greatest threat to large-scale meat duck production. Therefore, duck farmers must do a good job of duck disease prevention and control to ensure the healthy development of duck production. Do a good job of disinfection. Disinfection scope: inside and outside the duck houses and duck sheds, all duck production equipment, exercise yards, manure storage areas, etc. must be thoroughly disinfected, leaving no dead corners. Disinfection methods: the inner walls and spaces of duck houses and duck sheds can be disinfected by ultraviolet lamp irradiation and chemical fumigation; duck beds and exercise yards can be disinfected by spraying with strong disinfectants such as 2-4% sodium hydroxide solution; production equipment such as feeders and drinkers can be soaked, washed and disinfected with low-toxicity, strong-effect medicinal solutions; duck manure can be disinfected by piling it up for fermentation and spraying disinfectant liquid on the surface of the manure pile. Disinfection timing: some duck farmers do not promptly clean up manure and tidy the environmental sanitation after the ducks are sent to market, but instead hurriedly clean up the environment and carry out disinfection work just before a new batch of meat ducks is about to be brought in. This is a very bad habit. The correct approach is: immediately after the meat ducks are sent to market, clean up the environmental sanitation and do a good job of disinfection, leave the house or shed empty for 20 days, and only after disinfecting again can a new batch of ducklings be received and brought in. In addition, disinfection work should be done well during the duck-raising period. Duck-raising equipment should be frequently washed and disinfected. After clearing manure and bedding material from the duck bed, disinfect the duck bed immediately. Do a good job of immunization. Large-scale meat duck production involves large numbers, high density and frequent sending to market, making infectious diseases extremely likely to occur. To ensure the safety of duck production, it is necessary to systematically and purposefully inject vaccines into duck flocks not infected with disease, also called preventive inoculation. Which vaccine to use should be determined according to the epidemic situation in the local area and neighboring areas. For any duck infectious disease that has occurred locally or in neighboring areas, the corresponding vaccine must be injected. Expired vaccines or vaccines stored improperly cannot be used; inject vaccines strictly according to the dosage and method specified on the vaccine label. If an infectious disease occurs in the current flock or neighboring duck flocks during the meat duck raising period, emergency vaccination or injection of hyperimmune serum should be carried out. Through these measures, the epidemic of the disease can be rapidly controlled. Do a good job of handling dead and sick ducks. Some duck farmers do not isolate and raise sick ducks, and throw dead ducks around at will. This practice is not good for their own duck production and may also harm ducks raised by others. This phenomenon must be eliminated. When sick ducks are found, they must immediately be picked out from the flock, raised in isolation, and a veterinarian should be asked to diagnose and treat them or they should be handled according to requirements; dead ducks must be deeply buried or incinerated, and must not be processed and sold or eaten on one's own. Do a good job of scientific medication. Scientific medication is an important means of doing a good job of duck disease prevention and control. In the practice of duck production, drugs used can be divided into preventive medication and therapeutic medication. Preventive medication refers to adding a certain drug to feed or drinking water before the duck flock becomes ill, so as to effectively prevent or reduce the occurrence of duck disease in advance. For example: feeding gentamicin to a duck flock can control the occurrence of colibacillosis; feeding anticoccidial drugs can prevent the occurrence of coccidiosis, and so on. Therapeutic medication refers to targeted feeding of drugs after the duck flock has become ill and has been definitively diagnosed, so as to achieve the purpose of treating the disease and controlling the disease situation.</p>
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Traditional Chinese Medicine Formulas for Difficult Diseases in Pheasant Farming
In production practice, one often encounters this situation: when treating certain infectious diseases, all the "good drugs" have been used up, yet the effect is still not obvious. However, treatment with low-cost traditional Chinese medicine has instead achieved unexpectedly good results. These facts show
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Six measures for increasing the egg production of female soft-shelled turtles in farming
1. The male-to-female ratio must be appropriate. In a soft-shelled turtle pond, too many males actually disrupts the mating of the brood turtles and lowers the fertilization rate. Under normal circumstances, the male-to-female ratio should preferably be (3-4):1. If the males in the pond are strong and large in body size, their number can be smaller. Conversely, the number of males should be increased.
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