Illnesses of chickens and their treatment

As chickens grow up, so do young chickens, and they are more likely to get sick. The methods of their treatment and prevention are described below. It is important to remember that the ailments of these birds arise from unsatisfied minds in the morning and in the past.

Let's take a look at the report on the main illnesses of laying hens, their symptoms with photos and descriptions, as well as methods of treatment and prevention. Learn the essentials for looking after birds and avoiding illnesses with video help.

Main ailments of chickens - symptoms and photos

Smoke more for your other birds, and they will get sick. In order to preserve meat and egg productivity, it is necessary to take precautions and regularly cleanse.

Sickness laying in the household minds

The most widespread diseases of chickens are:

This is a viral pathology that practically does not respond to treatment. Therefore, in order to prevent infection, all young animals must remove preventive chips.

• Pulorosis

Most often it affects young animals up to twenty days old. With improper treatment and the use of preventive measures, death occurs in 60 hundred cases.

Baby 1. External appearance of chickens and their afterbirth with: 1 – plague, 2 – paratyphoid, 3 – pullorosis, 4 – coccidiosis

The main symptoms of pullorosis are:

• Kurchatka sits calmly with flattened eyes;
• The chicks squeak steadily and breathe heavily;
• The aftereffect is white, foamy and has an unpleasant odor.

The disease can be provoked by high planting thickness, improper cultivation (especially vitamin A deficiency) and other plantings.

Note: For treatment, use antibiotics: tetracyclines, chloramphenicol, furatsilin, furazolidone, etc. Prote, it’s easier to avoid the spread of the virus with simple preventive measures. For this purpose, young birds should be kept away from mature birds, adhere to sanitary and hygienic standards, often change bedding and disinfect areas and equipment.

The diet should be rich in live substances, supplemented with vitamin A, and also periodically given a weak dose of potassium permanganate instead of water.

• Paratyphoid fever (salmonella)

The disease is widespread, which often results in a fatal outcome. Infected young animals show symptoms of conjunctivitis, become weakly fragile, and begin to pass away. For bathing, use tetracycline or oxytetracycline, which can be taken directly from wet bags or water.

For prevention, it is necessary to carefully monitor the young animals and, at the first signs of illness, isolate sick individuals and disinfect all areas and equipment. In addition, it is necessary to protect all rodents that carry the infection.

• Ascariasis

Most often they attack chickens, but they can also spread to mature individuals due to unsatisfactory food and morning conditions. Sick birds lose their appetite, their comb is pale, their development appears to be weakened and their immunity decreases, and symptoms of parasites are clearly visible.

Note: For treatment, use nilverm, tetranate, piperazine and paverine. As an effective means of prevention, it is necessary to ensure isolation of chickens from mature birds, regularly change the vigil plots, and constantly disinfect the birds.

In addition, it is necessary to regularly carry out preventive deworming.

Mycoplasmosis - symptoms and treatment

Mycoplasmosis is an infectious disease that causes particular concern due to swollen and pulmonary enlargement. Birds can become infected through hedgehogs, water and wind. Mycoplasmosis can appear in the country when purchasing a new flock, so all new animals cannot be immediately transplanted into a chicken coop; they must be quarantined for an hour.

Symptoms of mycoplasmosis appear to finish brightly(Malyunok 2):

• The chicken begins to chug, cough, and begins to breathe heavily;
• The mucous membranes of the eyes and respiratory organs burn;
• There is a discord in the etching process.

Malyunok 2. Symptoms of mycoplasmosis

Symptoms of mycoplasmosis are especially pronounced in cold weather. For treatment, antibiotics are used and added to the bird feed for 5 days. After the winter break, the course of treatment is repeated.

Coccidiosis in chickens

It is most common among chickens. The smells become weak, their appetite decreases, strong sprague appears, and the latter becomes rare and develops a green or dark chocolate color. The chicks are quickly losing their hair, their combs and earrings are pale.

Malyunok 3. Treatments against coccidiosis (1) and paratyphoid fever (2)

For treatment, use amprolium, sulfadimezin, sulfadimethoxine, coccidiovit and rigecoccin (Figure 3). As a preventive measure, it is recommended to isolate the young birds from the mature birds, thoroughly clean the area after the after-effects and apply sprinklings of the yearlings and dustings. In addition, it is recommended to exercise chickens on dry plots and give them a balanced diet. Baby 1 is shown the main visual signs of a widening illness in chickens.

A virus that infects internal organs and the nervous system. Some symptoms do not appear immediately; over several months, all the herds become infected.

It can occur in acute or chronic forms. Gostra most often attacks chicken broilers. In this case, death occurs in less than half of the victims. The chronic form is widespread among mature individuals.

Figure 4. Manifest Marek’s illnesses

In sick individuals, the wings are paralyzed, the legs are weak, the toes become stiff, and blindness eventually appears (Figure 4). Treatment is even more complex and, at the same time, not very effective, so the main methods of control come down to prevention: it is necessary to constantly monitor the cleanliness of the hen and diligently check all new individuals that are imported from the state.

Sickness of Newcastle

The virus attacks internal organs, the nervous system and respiratory organs. The development of illness can lead to a decrease in productivity and can even lead to death. Most often, the Newcastle disease affects chickens, but sometimes even older animals can become infected with the virus.

Symptoms of the pathology include(Figure 5):

• Carrying yellow chi green color;
• Fever (body temperature rises to 44 degrees);
• Mucus with an unpleasant odor accumulates in the respiratory organs;
• Purchase of gases from crops;
• The neck becomes twisted and the head begins to fall on the stake, resulting in paralysis of the wings and paws.

Figure 5. Signs of illness in Newcastle

In addition, the color of the comb changes, the coordination of the rocs is disrupted, and the eggs may lose their shell. A cure for Newcastle disease has not yet been created, so the fight comes down to prevention and vaccination.

This is a viral disease that especially affects the hen. As a result, the birds' productivity decreases and they begin to lay irregularly shaped eggs, with or without a soft shell (Figure 6).

Note: With cliniform, the risk of aggravation of illness is quite lower, lower with substitution.

Malyunok 6. Symptoms of decreased breastfeeding syndrome

Reduced laying syndrome should not lead to the death of birds. In hens who are ill, their immunity is weakened, which can last until the last hour, but in order to prevent the birds from becoming ill again, they need to be vaccinated.

You will learn more information about chicken body from the video.

Vitamins for chickens and disease prevention

Vitaminized feeds play a key role in disease prevention (Figure 7):

Figure 7. Vitaminized feed: green legumes, beef and wheat flour

• Vitamin A, which is found in legumes, cereals and legume-cereal green feeds;
• Vitamin B12, which helps to compensate for nutritional deficiencies and is important in animal feed;
• Vitamin D improves the formation of the brushes, and for its development of viscosity, birds need to be in the sun;
• Vitamins B1 and B2 have a beneficial effect on the nervous system, and these vitamins include fruits, herbs, yeast and milk products.

For the survival of chickens and mature chickens, special vitaminized concentrates, as well as vitamin-mineral supplements, are used in spring and winter.

Vitamins for laying hens

During the winter, it is especially important to give laying hens food rich in vitamins. This is not only a positive way to deal with illness, but will also help prevent the development of illness.

In yakostі vitamin supplement apparently feed this way:

• The hay from the stables and the crops. Dried grass is tied in a bunch and hung in a henhouse so that the birds can easily peck at it.
• Sprouted grain is valuable for vitamins, and regular feeding of such food has a beneficial effect on egg laying and laying.
• Boiled potatoes, watermelon and beet support the immune system and serve as an excellent means of preventing illness.
• Boletus, dormouse, fodder yeast and wheat flour are rich in vitamin D, so they should be easily added to the storage area.

Also, winter birds receive special vitaminized premixes from industrial production. It is more effective to use natural sources of vitamins, such as pine needles, the secrets of which are revealed in the video.