Causes, prevention and treatment of cold in free-range chickens

Most of the friends who live in the countryside will keep a few chickens at home, but in the process of raising chickens, there will be a cold in the flock, and many farmers will not care at first, resulting in later infection of other diseases, or even death. So chickens infected with a cold is a headache for chicken farmers, so how to prevent it? Let's take a look.

1. Causes of colds in free-range chickens

1. Temperature differences lead to colds

Temperature difference is one of the important causes of chicken colds, the temperature is higher in summer, and the temperature is also higher at night, so the temperature difference is not very large, but the other several funds, the temperature difference between day and night is still relatively large. On the other hand, free-range chickens are generally raised in the mountains and woodlands, where the temperature is lower at night, and the heat preservation performance of the chicken house is poor, or the ventilation is poor, which can easily lead to a rapid drop in the temperature of the chicken house and cause the chickens to catch a cold.

2. Being caught in the rain causes a cold

The cold caused by rain is also a headache for farmers. During the rainy season, there is heavy rainfall, heavy rain, sufficient food intake for free-range chickens, and they will not go back to the henhouse to eat, and the chickens do not take shelter from the rain in time, leading to rain and colds.

II. Preventive measures

Can strengthen the heat preservation work of the chicken house, plus the plastic film, put it down at night to do the basic heat preservation measures, reduce the temperature difference, chicken farmers should pay attention to the weather forecast, when it rains, do not talk about the flock of chickens out of the chicken house, the feeding cycle of free-range chickens is longer, it is not suitable for maintenance during daily feeding, it is most appropriate to eat in 1-2 hours. When it rains, take a small amount of feed directly into the chicken house to feed, 1 chicken flock will follow back, can effectively reduce the chickens caught in the rain and catch cold.

III. Methods of treatment

In the early stage of chicken colds, the disease is on the surface, and you can drink water directly with ginger water. Free-range chickens have strong resistance and are easy to recover quickly. In the middle of the disease when the chicken body is exuberant, the general chicken will be in a state of high fever, mainly to clear heat, you can use Qingwen Baidu powder, Jingfangbaidu powder and other formulations, most of which are for the treatment of colds at this stage. In the later stage of the disease, the physique of the chicken is relatively weak, which is mainly based on Fuzheng, do not use a large dose of bitter cold traditional Chinese medicine to control, this will be counterproductive.

The above is the introduction of the causes and prevention of cold in free-range chickens. I hope it can help you. If you want to know more about it, please pay attention to us.