What about chicken indigestion?

Farmers hatch chicks, raising chicks is not an easy task, chicks have poor digestive ability, poor resistance, poor heat preservation ability, and it is easy to die in the chick stage. For example, chicks often have indigestion and indigestion, which may not be excreted, resulting in serious consequences. So why the chicken indigestion, indigestion should do, let's have a look!

1. Reason

The common cause of indigestion in chickens is the accumulation of food in the crop, also known as hard crop disease. Or eat too much food at once, or drink too much water, eat moldy, unclean feed. Feeding or eating food that is too rough, such as corn without crushing, is too difficult to digest. It may also be an infectious disease that indirectly leads to indigestion.

2. Feeding method

After the birth of dry hair, within three days, first feed clean water, a small amount of food, there is pecking phenomenon, you can see that it is to feed a little ground feed to provide drinking water. Have been fed with feed, only half a month after birth, can be fed with small pellet configuration feed. Can also feed corn, soybeans, such as grinding powder, can not be fed directly, otherwise can not be digested. Provide clean drinking water at any time and drink it yourself.

3. Help digestion

Add garlic, or dandelion, as well as seasonings such as Fructus Aurantii and fennel to help digestion. Adding Hawthorn and malt can directly promote digestion. A month later, small sand grains are provided to increase the digestive ability of the chicks. Indigestion occurs, stop feeding, inject a few milliliters of cooking oil into the chicken crop, gently massage, and then gradually dredge. Or feed a little more water, massage, wash with 2% boric acid after discharge, and feed a piece of oxytetracycline.

4. Disease prevention and treatment

If it is an infectious disease caused by indigestion, there is dysentery, use antibiotics such as norfloxacin hydrochloride, if there is coccidiosis, use anti-coccidiosis agents, add 0.2% probiotics or 0.1% enzyme preparation to the feed. Chicks have to be vaccinated against diseases with related treatment conditions to avoid harm.

Indigestion often occurs in chickens, especially in rural areas, where a litter of chickens often dies. Therefore, raising chickens should pay special attention to diet and health problems.