Prevention and treatment of diarrhea in laying hens

Chicken diarrhea, in addition to disease factors, there are the following factors, and the symptoms and degrees of diarrhea are not the same.

Physiological factors

The urinary system of the chicken is composed of kidney and ureter, which communicates directly with the rectum and opens in the cloaca, and the excess water in the chicken is excreted together with the feces, so it is not surprising that the feces of laying hens are sparse compared with other poultry feces.

Climatic reasons

When the external temperature is high, drinking water cooling is the main means for laying hens to maintain constant body temperature, but due to its physiological factors, most of the drinking water can only be discharged from the cloaca after blood circulation, resulting in thin feces.

Feed factor

In order to improve the palatability of feed, enhance the appetite of chickens and supplement salt in the body, some chicken farmers often increase the content of salt in the diet of laying hens, and sometimes the salt content of the feed itself is higher. the sharp increase in the amount of drinking water after eating will lead to thin feces. In addition, the high content of calcium hydrogen phosphate in feed and magnesium in stone powder will also lead to thin feces, which rarely occurs before the layer is changed, and most of them occur after the change.

Therefore, layer diarrhea should first analyze the situation, find out the reasons for conditioning, if caused by the above reasons, the use of a large number of drug treatment will not only not improve, but also destroy the balance of microorganisms in the intestinal tract of laying hens, making diarrhea more serious.