Farming Knowledge Q&A: Practical Answers to Common Farming Questions
1 Is my chicken poisoned?
A netizen asks: My chicks have been on sulfa drugs for five days, and these past two days the flock's feed intake has dropped. After dissection, the liver is black and enlarged. What's going on?
Haiping answers: Sulfa drugs cause great harm to the liver and kidneys. If used for a long time or in excessive doses, they will cause drug poisoning. The liver becomes enlarged and black, and the kidneys become red, swollen and bleeding. In this situation, you can use 5% glucose plus 0.3% VC, together with 0.2% baking soda, or together with our company's Yishenshu, to protect the liver and kidneys, and to clear the kidneys at night.
2 How do you calculate feed intake?
A netizen asks: I raise 817 broilers. How do I calculate the daily feed intake?
Haiping answers: For 817 broilers, generally raised to 45-55 days, to calculate the daily feed intake, you can multiply the number of chickens by the age in days, then divide by 200, and you will get the feed intake for that day.
3 Hen brooding
A netizen asks: Hello Teacher Qidong, my hen keeps brooding, which affects egg production. What should I do?
Qidong answers: If it is a chicken that has just started brooding, you can solve it by administering white vinegar orally, 2-5 ml per chicken, twice a day, for 4 consecutive days. If the brooding has lasted a relatively long time, you can use medication to control it, using human isoniazid tablets and compound quinine tablets, one tablet per day, taken for 2-3 consecutive days.
4 What is going on with my laying hens suddenly splaying their legs?
A netizen asks: Hello, my chickens can't stand up. I asked several vets to do dissections and they all said there was no disease?
Wang Hualei answers: Are the joints swollen? When did the paralyzed chickens first appear? What breed are you raising, how many are you raising, and on average how many paralyzed chickens appear in a day?
A netizen asks: Not swollen. Laying hens. One day three or four hundred appeared. Raising about 20,000. This situation has been occurring for almost a year, and for eight months or so.
Wang Hualei answers: If possible, it is best to dissect a chicken and take a look, and take a photo of the droppings and send it over to look at.
A netizen asks: With the chickens in this situation, I sold them all. Based on your experience, analyze for me what the cause is?
Wang Hualei answers: In that case I really have no way to answer you. I can only say that intestinal toxin syndrome, atypical Newcastle disease, E. coli, viral arthritis, small intestine coccidiosis, vitamin or calcium-phosphorus deficiency, Staphylococcus and so on can all cause chickens to splay their legs and be unable to stand up.