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Medication And Vaccination Schedule For Broiler

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In poultry health management, drugs and vaccine are very essential. Proper care must be taken to avoid excess mortality in the poultry business. Below is the time table for medication and vaccine programme for Broilers. Day 1: Marek vaccine which is usually giving to the chicks at hatchery. On getting to your brooding pen, the chicks just need glucose or multivitamin to ease transportation stress, don't mix the two together to avoid contraindication. Then serve them the broiler starter feed. Day 2-4: Multivitamins in the morning, antibiotics in the afternoon. Day 5-7: Anti-coccidiosis in the morning and multivitamin in the afternoon. Day 8: Gumboro vaccine. Day 9: Multivitamins Day 10-12: Anti-coccidiosis and vitamins. Day 13: Lasota vaccine mix with milk: a tablespoon full of Cow Bell or any other powder milk in 5 litres of drinking water. Day 14-19: Multivitamins. Day 20: 2nd Gumboro vaccine. Day 21-23: Multivitamins. Day 24-26: Anti-coccidiosis. Day 27: 2nd Lasota.
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Organic Treatment of CRD in Broilers

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There are several diseases that can be symptomatic in poultry farming as we have human. In fact, a sign may indicate different poultry diseases. Not everytime green poops will interpret Gumboro, it could be as a result feed the birds consumed. What we call cough in poultry is actually Chronic Respiratory Disease (CRD). CRD is a form of poultry disease that interferes the respiratory tract of the birds, it may cause labour breathing, chirping and slight cough. It is a common disease affecting broilers follows by Coccidiosis . We have talked about Causes, Symptoms and Inorganic Treatment of CRD in one of our previous articles.  In this article, we focus on organic treatment of cough in broilers. The required recipes are ginger, cayenne pepper, scent leaf and garlic which can be prepared as follows: 1.) 750gram each of ginger, garlic and cayenne pepper.  2.) 50gram of scent leaf.  3.) Blend all in 1 litre of water. You may also like to read more about: • The Use Of Bitter Lea
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Medication And Vaccination Schedule For Layer

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There are many factors like selection of good chicks, location of farm and labour in the eggs production, but where most farmers get it wrong is in the aspect of poultry health management which is the major function of proper medication and vaccination schedule. We have discussed  How To Vaccinate Birds in previous articles. Below is the schedule you can follow as guide based on your experience in poultry farming: Day 1 -- Multivitamins/glucose Day 2-5 -- Antibiotics and multivitamins Day 6 -- Multivitamins Day 7 -- LaSota vaccine Day 8 -- Multivitamins Day 9-12 -- Anticoccidial drug Day 13 -- Multivitamins Day 14 -- Gumboro vaccine Day 15 -- Multivitamins Day 16-20 -- Antibiotics + Vitamins Day 21 -- Gumboro (booster) vaccine Day 28 -- LaSota (booster) vaccine Week 5 -- Tyloxine based drug (as antiviral) Week 6 -- 1st deworming Week 8 -- Antibiotics drugs Week 9 -- 1st coryza Week 12 -- Lasota Week 13 -- 2nd coryza Week 14 -- 2nd deworming We
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