Common mistakes in medication practices for raising chickens, and chicken farmers should avoid them

Raise chickens long enough and you become half a chicken veterinarian; this saying is not necessarily a joke. Generally, farms prepare a lot of medicines for daily use, commonly including flavomycin, oxytetracycline, and so on, but medicating chickens is not something to do casually. Let's take a look at these precautions below.

1. Non-stop medication

From chicks to young chickens to adult chickens, some farmers basically keep medication running through the entire life of the chicken, but this is actually a wrong idea. Medicating a chicken when it is sick is right, but when it is not sick, feeding it various antibiotics and similar drugs is also of little significance. There are also some farmers who always tinker with some folk remedies, thinking they are good for raising chickens, and then feed them every day too. In fact, this only increases breeding costs and may ultimately lead to breeding failure. Facts have proven that non-stop medication is an extremely failed approach, and farmers must be clear about this point.

2. Not medicating according to the treatment course

When a chicken gets sick, medicating it involves a process. One wrong approach here is to medicate based on the chicken's appearance: as soon as disease occurs, medicate heavily right away; when it gets a little better, stop the medication; when it relapses, continue medicating again. The whole treatment process just does not follow the procedure. This is a very wrong approach. Besides causing the chicken's disease to remain unable to recover, it may also worsen the disease. The action time of drugs is relatively slow, and improvement after medication treatment does not mean it is cured. So it is best to complete the entire course of medication to avoid recurrence of the chicken's disease.

3. Frequently changing medication

The same disease has different drugs, and as the severity of the condition varies, the treatment time required also differs. It is normal for a more serious illness to require a longer time. If after one or two days of medication you think the drug is useless and then medicate again with something else, in the end the farmer keeps changing drugs while the chicken's condition shows no improvement. Secondly, some drugs cannot be used together, otherwise they will harm the chicken. So under normal circumstances, do not change medication frequently. Observe the effect first before deciding; do not rush to make a decision, since drugs also need time to take effect.

4. Multiple drugs for one disease

This is a mistake that is very easy to make now, especially when facing a relatively large-scale outbreak. Some farmers are impatient; they just want to instantly cure the chickens with medication after disease occurs, and then buy various targeted drugs and feed them all to the chickens at once. Using multiple drugs for one disease is something greatly taboo. Mixing and feeding various drugs may ultimately cause reactions with each other, making the drugs ineffective, and in severe cases may directly cause the chickens to die. When medicating, check the contraindications to avoid using multiple drugs for one disease, so as not to regret it too late.

Chicken diseases should mainly be tackled through prevention, with treatment as an auxiliary means. When medication is unavoidable, choose rationally. Especially when you do not understand these medications, do not feed them easily, otherwise it is very likely that the loss will outweigh the gain. Medicate in a targeted way, observe patiently, and then correct step by step. Being anxious yourself makes it easy to lose your sense of proportion.