How to Prevent Fowl Plague When Raising Chickens? A Detailed Guide to Scientific Disease Prevention
SummaryVaccine injection: Injecting vaccines in the early stage of raising chickens can effectively prevent fowl plague. Keep the chicken coop clean: Keep the chicken coop clean at all times, and place the chicken manure cleaned up daily far away from the coop to prevent fowl plague. Improve immunity: You can chop ginger, garlic, etc. into mince, mix it into the feed and feed it to the chickens; you can also mix rice bran with white vinegar, let it settle overnight, then mix it into the feed for feeding. Later-stage breeding management: Fowl plague is easily transmitted through the respiratory tract, so in summer the breeding density needs to be appropriately reduced.
Fowl plague is actually a general term people use for poultry diseases. Fowl plague includes Asian fowl plague and European fowl plague. Asian fowl plague is the most common Newcastle disease, so what people currently call fowl plague mostly refers to Newcastle disease. Internationally, fowl plague is an old name for avian influenza, so fowl plague also often refers to avian influenza. It can occur in any season, and once it breaks out it will be a large-scale infection, so actively preventing fowl plague is especially important.
How to Prevent Fowl Plague When Raising Chickens
1. Inject vaccines
(1) Because fowl plague is quite widespread in its harmfulness, with social development, our country now has a variety of vaccines that can prevent fowl plague.
(2) Generally, vaccines must be injected in the early stage of raising chickens. Chicks around 3 months old are suitable for injection with Newcastle disease vaccine strain I, which is a vaccine with a relatively long immunity period.
(3) If this is inconvenient, Newcastle disease vaccine strain II can be chosen. This vaccine is suitable for all chickens, regardless of size, and can be directly mixed with water for feeding. In addition, fowl plague vaccine strains I-VI, etc. can also be chosen for prevention and control.
2. Keep the chicken coop clean
(1) An environment where the chicken coop is not up to sanitary standards is relatively likely to lead to fowl plague, so the chicken coop must be kept clean, and the chicken manure cleaned up daily should be placed far away from the coop.
(2) If the chicken manure in the coop is not cleaned up in time, when the weather is hot or the temperature difference changes greatly, and the indoor air is not circulating, the chickens' immunity will drop sharply, and over time it will easily cause fowl plague.
3. Improve immunity
Preventing fowl plague can start with improving the chickens' own immunity, and at the same time some external items can also be used to strengthen it.
(1) For example, common ginger, garlic, and the like can be chopped into mince, then mixed into the feed for feeding, which helps improve the chickens' immunity.
(2) Mix white vinegar and rice bran together, let it settle for one night, then stir it evenly, and then mix it into the feed for feeding.
(3) Generally, affected chickens can improve after continuous feeding for about 5 days. Chickens that are not affected can also be fed once at irregular intervals, which helps improve resistance.
4. Later-stage precautions
(1) Fowl plague generally occurs frequently in summer, so management must be strengthened in summer.
(2) Fowl plague is easily transmitted through the respiratory tract, so in summer the breeding density needs to be appropriately reduced. This not only ensures the temperature of the chicken coop, but also effectively reduces the incidence rate.
(3) Always prevent outside animals from intruding, thereby reducing the possibility of external infection.
(4) Mugwort leaves have certain effects in preventing and controlling pests and diseases. In summer, some mugwort leaves can be placed in the chicken coop, which can also remove odors from the coop.