Preventive measures of paratyphoid fever in chickens

Many diseases often occur in the process of raising chickens, chicken paratyphoid is one of them, it is the general name of diseases caused by Monella, it is an acute septic infectious disease, which will lead to the death of a large number of chickens, the mortality rate is very high. So how to prevent it? Let's take a look.

1. Clinical symptoms

Sick chickens will show depression, standing still, head drooping, eyes closed, wings drooping, loose feathers, loss of appetite or not eating, and watery diarrhea for increased water consumption. Tears in the eyes can cause blindness and sometimes arthritis. If the eggs are infected in the early stage of hatching, they will die within a few days after they come out of the shell.

2. Popular characteristics

The spread of the disease is very rapid, diseased chickens and infected chickens are the main sources of transmission, the main route of transmission is through egg transmission, in addition, the environment of chicken coop, bedding, feces and breeding equipment can also spread the disease after being infected by bacteria. Chicks are vulnerable to paratyphoid fever and may die within a day of hatching in an acute outbreak with no obvious symptoms.

3. Preventive measures

First of all, eggshells contaminated by germs can not be used as breeding eggs, egg equipment should be cleaned and disinfected, contact between eggs and eggs should be avoided as far as possible, the storage temperature should be kept at 10-15 degrees, and the storage time should not exceed a week. Formaldehyde steam can be used before hatching, which can kill the germs on the eggshell. In order to have paratyphoid fever during the baby-rearing period, staff need to wear sterilized clothes, shoes and hats, and no animals are allowed to enter. In order to prevent feeding utensils from being contaminated by faeces, they should be disinfected regularly.

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