04/10/2022
Brooding on Infected Farm
Brooding on infected farm is associated with high mortality if not noticed on time. An infected farm has heavy deposit of pathogens in them. When you take your water sample to laboratory, the presence of those pathogens will be seen. They may also be in the farm house, feeders and drinkers.
Using disinfectant alone can not give your birds 100% protection because some of those bacterial will find their way back to your brooding house at any slightest mistake by the farm attendance.
This is the cause of high mortality during brooding. In this case, conventional brooding drugs may not help.
Another scenario is that your DOC could be infected before getting to your farm. Most of the times this happened, farmers blame hatchery. It could be possible that hatchery sold out non infected day old chicks but by the time DOCs are moved from one place to the other before it finally get to you, they may have been exposed to pathogens. Most times, our pick up locations are infected as a result of activities going on there. The same place where dead infected birds are recieved for 'post mortem' is where day old chicks are kept. If you are unlucky, your DOC will be infected which will result in high mortality rate.
The question is, how do I know that my DOC is infected?
There is no available clinical apparatus to check this but an infected Day Old Chicks is associated with high mortality rate. Those healthy DOCs you saw in the first day will begin to go down in health. Some will be weak and eventually died. At this point a drastic measure should be put in place to curb the mortality or else you will lose many of them.
If you have such experience, don't hesitate to speak up. If you keep silence, you will continue to lose your birds day by day in their numbers.
If the birds are not infected, your normal brooding drugs will be effective on them. And you will have little or no mortality brooding them.
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