Symptoms, prevention and treatment of fowlpox

Fowlpox is a contagious and viral infectious disease, and it is also a common disease in chickens. It occurs in summer and autumn, and spreads quickly through mosquito bites in the environment of high temperature, high humidity and mosquitoes. So how to prevent and cure fowlpox? let's take a look at the detailed introduction of the pro-farm network.

1. Symptoms of fowlpox

Fowlpox is a viral infectious disease that lurks in chickens for about a week after invasion. According to its symptoms and location of the disease, fowlpox can be divided into three types: skin type, Yao diphtheria type and mixed type.

Skin type: all occur in the mosquito rampant season, the lesions are located in hairless and hairless areas, such as chicken head and nose, when the disease occurs, a kind of verrucous acne appears. As the disease develops, these pimples increase rapidly, turn yellow, and combine with the surrounding acne to form large crusts. Its harm is less, the mortality rate is low, when the disease is serious, the spirit is low, the appetite weakens, if forms the scab in the eye part, can cause the chicken eye blindness.

Yao diphtheria type: this type mainly occurs in cold winter weather, the lesion is located in the mouth, throat and other places, also grow some small pox in the mouth and throat, and then gradually spread and combine, forming a layer of yellow-white cheese on the mucous membrane, so it's called chicken diphtheria. If the false membrane is torn off, ulcer lesions appear below, which will affect the breathing and feeding of diseased chickens, often leading to feeding difficulties, weight loss, poor growth and, in severe cases, death.

Mixed type: mixed type is the onset of two symptoms together, the mortality rate is very high.

Prevention method

Fowlpox is a common disease, and the best way to prevent it is to be vaccinated. Good preventive effect can be achieved after vaccination with live fowlpox vaccine. At the same time, environmental hygiene should be done well, mosquitoes should be eliminated in time, transmission routes should be cut off, and sick chickens should be isolated in time, and the site should be disinfected comprehensively.

Treatment method

There is no specific treatment for fowlpox for the time being. if it is a large-scale disease of chickens, antiviral drugs can be mixed and fed in the feed for 3-5 days in a row, and an appropriate amount of heat-clearing and detoxifying drugs can be added to prevent secondary infection. For seriously ill chickens, the skin type can peel off the acne scab with tweezers, and then smear disinfectant in the wound, while diphtheria type, peel off the false membrane and sprinkle some detoxification drugs for 2-3 days. And if it is growing in the eyes, affecting the vision of chickens, can be treated by injection, injection of detoxification agents can be.

The above are the symptoms and prevention and control methods of fowlpox brought by the pro-agricultural network. This is the end of the content about fowlpox. I believe everyone knows about its symptoms and prevention methods. If you want to know more, please pay attention to the pro-agricultural network.