KARI Chicken Breed Disease Management.
On this article you will get to know KARI Chicken Breed Disease Management. Any poultry expert could tell you that the key principles to managing the health of your bird/poultry is by enhancing preventative measures,early spotting of diseases and providing early treatment.
All these measures could be made more effective by ensuring proper sanitation,prior immunisation,and treating diseases on time.
Below are some of the common diseases that attack KARI chicken,their causes,symptoms and the ways of preventing/treating them.
| Disease Name | Causes of the disease. | Symptoms | Preventative measures and treatment. |
| 1.New Castle Disease. | Coming into contact with a diseased bird | -Difficulty in breathing.
-Discharge from the nose -paralysed legs and wings. -The hen stops laying eggs. |
-Vaccination. |
| 2.Fowl Pox Disease | -Transmitted by the Avipoxvirus through open wounds. | -Sores on their combs
-Spots on their skin -White ulcers in mouth and trachea. -The hen ceases to lay eggs. |
-Vaccination
-Feeding them on soft food. |
| 3.Quail disease | -spore forming bacterial rod that is spread through bird droppings. | -When at a chronic stage birds have whitish watery diarrhoea,ruffled feathers,and humped up posture. | Adding drugs such as Bacitracin and Penicillin to the water or feeds. |
| 4.Botulism | -Ingestion of toxins either through the consumption of food and water that has been contaminated. | -Progressive tremors
-Paralysis -Difficulty inbreathing -Easy to pull feathers -Higher death rate |
-Destroying the carcass of infected birds completely. |
| 5.Fowl Cholera | -Drinking water that has been contaminated with the organism Pasteurella multocida. | -Greenish-yellow diarrhoea
-Pain in the joints -Difficulty in breathing -Darkened head. |
-Vaccination.
-Destroying the infected carcass completely. |
| 6.Infectious Bronchitis | -caused by IBV virus(Infectious Bronchitis Virus | -sneezing
-snoring -coughing -secretion of substances from nose and eyes -hen ceases to lay eggs |
-Vaccination
-quarantine -Feeding chicken with fresh plants -Give chicken a clean and warm place to stay |
| 7.Mareks disease | -breathing in pieces of an infected bird e.g. feathers. | -Growth of tumour inside or outside the chick
-Grey iris -Paralysm |
-Vaccinating chiks at one-day old
-Getting rid of the carcass completely |
| 8.Thrush | -caused by a yeast infection through consumption of moulded feed | -Ruffled feathers | -Treated by antifungal medicine.
-Feeding the birds with fresh food and water. |
| 9.Air sac disease | -caused by an organism called Mycoplasma gallisepticum. | -Poor laying of eggs
-Coughing and sneezing -Difficulty in breathing -Swollen joints -Higher death rate |
-Vaccination
-Treatment using antibiotics |
| 10.Mushy chick disease | -Incubator problems
-Poor sanitation -Excessive heat after hatching |
-Mostly appear in chicks they look drowsy,their middle part is inflamed.
-The chick seems weak |
-Isolating sick birds.
-Ensuring proper hygiene -Treatment using antibiotics |
Conclusion.
A lot of poultry farmers suffer huge losses because of such diseases.However,continuous research is being made to curb such challenges.
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