Four major feed causes make chicken diarrhea difficult to prevent and control

1. Excessive salt content. To enhance appetite and prevent feather pecking, vent pecking and similar behaviors, too much salt is added to chicken feed, causing the chickens to drink excessively, which often leads to severe diarrhea. In addition, an excessive amount of fish meal or fish meal that itself contains a lot of salt can also easily lead to excessive salt content in the feed, causing diarrhea in laying hens.

2. Excessive limestone powder content. Adding too much limestone powder to the diet or increasing it too quickly will cause the blood calcium of laying hens to be too high, increase the burden on the kidneys, cause kidney swelling, and ultimately cause diarrhea. To meet the needs of egg production, the amount of limestone powder added to the diet of laying hens must be increased gradually and step by step as the laying rate rises.

3. Crude protein level too high. Some breeders often increase the proportion of soybean meal added to the diet in order to make the chickens lay more large eggs. When the soybean meal content is too high, the body cannot absorb it completely, thereby irritating the intestinal tract, speeding up metabolism, causing the chicken's feces to turn yellow and thin, and reducing feed conversion rate. Generally, the crude protein requirement of a laying hen flock is about 16%. If the protein content is too high or the protein-to-energy ratio is unbalanced, it is easy to weaken the liver and kidney functions of laying hens, leading to massive deposition of urate and even the occurrence of gout.

4. Moldy raw materials. If raw materials in the feed such as corn and peanut meal become moldy, their toxins will irritate and damage the intestinal mucosa of laying hens, increasing the permeability of the intestinal mucosa and causing diarrhea in laying hens.