How to prevent diseases when raising chickens? These practical tips you should know
Adding grit to chicken feed works well. Adding about 3% grit to chicken feed has the following benefits: it can effectively improve the chicken's gizzard ability to grind feed; it can slow down the passage speed of food through the chicken's gastrointestinal tract; it can make digestive juices more easily enter the chyme, promote better absorption of nutrients by the body, and can increase the weight gain of broilers and the egg production rate of laying hens. The grit fed to chickens should be insoluble, silicon-containing or granite grit, with a grit size of 2 mm to 5 mm.
What to do if chicks bathe themselves. When chicks first enter the brooding room and find the drinker to drink water, a small number of chicks often easily jump into the water to bathe, with all their feathers completely wet, especially in autumn and winter. If not carefully managed, the chicks will become ill or even die. Practice shows that this is caused by the water temperature in the drinker (close to the chick's body temperature) being higher than the brooding room temperature. How to correct chicks bathing themselves? The water temperature in the drinker can be made basically close to the brooding room temperature, or the brooding room temperature can be raised relatively. In short, the water temperature in the drinker should be close to the brooding temperature (it must never be higher than or close to the chick's body temperature). In addition, the chicks that have bathed should be placed as close as possible to a heat source to warm and dry their feathers, and they should be carefully managed. In this way, the phenomenon of chicks bathing themselves can be overcome in about 1 hour.
Chinese herbal medicine treatment for summer-dampness cold in laying hens. Under high-temperature stress, laying hens have reduced resistance. If feeding and management are improper, invasion by summer-dampness external pathogens can easily cause summer-dampness cold.
Disinfection with chickens present should avoid stress. 1. Within 12 hours before and after disinfection, give the flock drinking water containing 0.1% vitamin C or a water-soluble multivitamin solution. 2. Choose disinfectants with little irritation, high efficiency and low toxicity, such as 0.02% Baidusha, 0.2% Kangduwei, etc. 3. Before spraying, the temperature inside the house should be 2°C~3°C higher than the specified standard to prevent water evaporation from causing cold in the chickens. The temperature of the disinfectant solution should also be higher than the standard temperature inside the house. 4. When spraying, the droplets should be fine, and the spray volume should be just enough to make the chickens and cage nets moist. Do not spray too much or too wet. 5. Disinfection time should preferably be chosen at night. For floor-raised chickens, it should be carried out after the lights are dimmed or turned off and the flock is quiet, to prevent frightening the flock during daytime operations and causing phenomena such as flying and crowding.
Chinese herbal medicine therapy for ascites in broilers. Take 30 grams each of mulberry white bark, oriental waterplantain rhizome, dried tangerine peel, areca peel, akebia stem, and plantain seed, 20 grams each of Polyporus umbellatus and cassia twig, and 60 grams each of poria and astragalus, decoct in water for 100 chickens to take orally.
Chinese herbal medicine therapy for egg drop syndrome. Take 50 grams each of Coptis chinensis, Phellodendron amurense, Scutellaria baicalensis, honeysuckle, Isatis indigotica leaf, licorice, and Isatis root, and 30 grams each of airpotato yam and Clematis chinensis, add water and decoct to obtain 5 kg of medicinal juice, add 1 kg of white sugar, and give it to 50 chickens to take, for 3 to 5 doses continuously.
Chinese herbal medicine therapy for chicken gout. Take 50 grams each of oriental waterplantain rhizome and poria, 30 grams of plantain seed, 80 grams each of knotgrass, talc powder, and Scutellaria baicalensis, 60 grams each of poria and plantain herb, 50 grams of Polyporus umbellatus, 40 grams each of immature bitter orange and Lygodium japonicum spore, 30 grams of fennel, and 35 grams of licorice, decoct in water, add brown sugar, mix with feed, and feed orally.