Four feed triggers that easily cause chicken diarrhea

1. Excessive salt content. To enhance appetite and prevent feather pecking, vent pecking and similar problems, too much salt is added to chicken feed, causing the chickens to drink excessively and often leading to severe diarrhea. In addition, adding too much fishmeal or using fishmeal that itself contains a lot of salt can also easily make the salt content in the feed too high, causing diarrhea in laying hens.

2. Excessive limestone powder. 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 lead to 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. Excessive crude protein level. Some breeders, in order to make their chickens lay more large eggs, often increase the proportion of soybean meal added to the diet. When the soybean meal content is too high, the body cannot absorb it completely, thereby irritating the intestines, speeding up metabolism, and causing the chicken manure to turn yellow and thin, reducing feed conversion efficiency. 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 easily weakens the liver and kidney function of laying hens, leading to massive deposition of urates and even the occurrence of gout.

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