Beware of Twelve Chicken Diseases

Become a chicken farm actually more difficult compare with other kind of animals farm. There are many diseases that can attack to chicken, sometime light disease and sometime very heavy disease like bird flu. Currently still no medicine for avian bird flu, so if their chicken attack by this disease, chicken farm just have one choice, to diminish their farm. This condition often make chicken farm going bankrupt. There are still many other heavy chicken diseases that still can’t be cured, and spread very fast to all their chicken, even isolate the infected chicken, sometime the other also can ill with by the same disease.

Generally sick chicken in not active, but not all disease have the same symptom. There are twelve chicken diseases to be aware of:

1. Rickets cause by nutrition deficiency
2. Vitamin A deficiency
3. Lice Infestation cause by parasites
4. Cocciciosis
5. Roundworm cause by Ascaridiasis
6. Capillariasis or Hairworm
7. Mycoplasmosis, causes respiratory disease
8. Colibacilosis, cause by bacteria
9. Fowl Cholera
10. Fowl Pox, cause by virus
11. Avian Influenza or bird flu and Exotic
12. Newcastle disease (END)

Overcoming chicken diseases more difficult than prevention from the causes, bad behaviour, nutritional deficiencies and vitamin A deficiency can avoided if we feed and take care the chicken in the right way. Not all chicken disease give a clear symptom, some disease that causes by viruses look unnoticed.

Here are the tips to prevent from poultry problem:

1. Proper management and good sanitation system, such as clean the equipment and other facilities with proper disinfectants and minimizing or eliminating the introduction of new birds to your flock. Limiting contact with visitors and preventing contact with other birds animals.
2. Quarantine of your sick chicken as far as possible from the chicken groups, diagnose the disease to prevent further spread the disease.
3. Schedule Vaccination should be performed to your chicken groups, if they are transported on and off premises regularly and if bird are continually introduced to an existing flock.
4. Schedule prevention program to clean all of chicken cage by using of disinfectant, usually every 6 months.
5. Clean your chicken cage every day, every chicken faeces must be clean every day from the chicken cage, like you clean your house. In modern chicken cage this cleaning system is run automatically, every time chicken exist their faeces blower will blow out this feces.