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Over the past couple of years, when chatting with people who raise chickens, eight out of ten say the same thing: chickens are harder to raise than before. It’s not your imagination. Breeding priorities are changing, farming density is changing, and pathogens are changing too. C…
Chicken coccidiosis is a widely distributed protozoal disease. In production practice, it not only causes large numbers of chick deaths (the mortality rate from cecal coccidiosis exceeds 80%) but also significantly reduces poultry production performance (such as meat quality, mortality and cull…
Lung injury in broiler chickens is a serious respiratory condition, usually caused by the interaction of multiple factors, such as infections by various pathogens and environmental stress. It has a high mortality rate and causes huge economic losses to the poultry industry. Therefore, understan…
Proventriculitis and gizzard erosion are environmentally conditional diseases. Environmentally conditional diseases occur when unsuitable conditions during rearing disrupt the balance of the chickens’ respiratory, digestive, and reproductive systems, weakening the flock and triggering disease. …
With the rapid development of the poultry industry, viral arthritis in yellow-feather broiler chickens (hereinafter referred to as the disease) has become an increasingly prominent issue. Recently, multiple cases of the disease have occurred in broiler chickens in the two Guangxi and Guangdong …
At present, chicken-origin Riemerella anatipestifer has become the hottest topic in the poultry industry, a bona fide “star disease,” and the trend appears to be worsening. But is the emergence of chicken-origin Riemerella anatipestifer really what has caused such enormous losses to the industr…
Differences between winter poultry colds and pericarditis and perihepatitis caused by E. coli! 1, poultry colds generally produce white or milky-white, curd-like discharge. It is generally not elastic, breaks easily, and falls off at the slightest touch; 2, pericarditis, perih…
For some pig farms, autumn and winter begin with a nightmare in the farrowing room: piglets that seem fine at birth stop nursing, vomit, and develop diarrhea the next day, then start convulsing, circling, and lying on their sides paddling their legs. They die within a day or two, and sometimes an e…
With crisp autumn weather and falling temperatures, autumn is traditionally a golden season for pig farming, when pigs grow quickly and feed conversion rates are high. However, the day-to-night temperature gap widens in autumn and pathogens are active. Respiratory diseases, diarrhea, and mosquitoes…
In pig production, piglets from weaning until 60-75 days of age are generally referred to as nursery piglets. This is another important production stage following the management of suckling piglets. The biggest challenge we face when raising nursery piglets is that their internal organs and immune …
Porcine pleuropneumonia is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae. It most commonly affects pigs in the growing and fattening stages. The predominant serotypes are 1, 2, 3 and 7. The acute form may cause severe respiratory distress and sudden death. Its pa…
01 Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) According to clinical and epidemiological data, more than six tenths of PRRS pneumonia cases involve mixed infections. In most mixed-infection scenarios, the PRRS virus is not the “primary pathogen” but an “amplifying factor”—it first dama…
Many pig farmers face this problem: pigs develop coughing, labored breathing, and abdominal breathing. After injections or medicated feed, they soon stabilize and resume eating, but three to five days after the medication is stopped, the coughing and breathing difficulties flare up again. A few pig…
The biggest waste for pig farmers: giving pigs injections indiscriminately whenever they breathe heavily! At many pig farms, whenever a pig breathes heavily, they immediately give it cephalosporins or florfenicol. A lot is spent on medication, yet the pigs get worse with treatment, suffer recur…
Piglet diarrhea is currently one of the important diseases in veterinary clinical practice. After piglets become ill, their weight gain decreases, and severe dehydration can lead to death. It has therefore become a major factor affecting piglet growth. Piglet diarrhea is a typical multifac…
When people see a pig vomit, their first reaction is often, “It must have eaten something bad” or “There’s something wrong with its stomach.” But on a pig farm, vomiting is precisely a signal that is easily “misread”—it is rarely an isolated gastrointestinal problem. More often, it is a way for sys…
Winter often triggers various diseases, so caution is essential, especially regarding the following two chicken diseases. One. Osteomalacia During chickens’ growth and development, especially in winter, if the metabolism of minerals in the body—particularly calcium and phospho…
Poultry immunosuppression refers to a group of diseases caused by various pathogens that damage poultry immune organs to some extent, significantly reducing cellular and humoral immune functions. This condition weakens the overall functioning of the poultry immune system, thereby increasing sus…
I. Causes of respiratory symptoms 1, large temperature differences and cold stress Sudden cold stress often reduces blood flow to the tracheal mucosa and skin through the body's neuroendocrine regulation, reducing the number of immune cells distributed in these areas. The clearanc…
Diarrhea in chickens is an old and familiar topic, but many poultry farmers still do not know what to do when their chickens have diarrhea. Let’s discuss this issue again and introduce some common methods for treating diarrhea in chickens. I. Medication 1. Antibiotics. Antibio…
Chicken-origin Riemerella anatipestifer disease is a bacterial disease caused by chicken-origin Riemerella anatipestifer. When this pathogen infects ducks, the disease is also known as duck infectious serositis, new duck disease, duck septicemia, duck infectious disease syndrome, and duck Paste…
In today’s large-scale poultry farming, producers generally focus on ventilation, temperature control, vaccination, and feed management. Yet flocks still fall ill frequently, and treating sick birds can be difficult. If this happens, don’t focus solely on medication. A hidden source of contaminat…
After the autumn harvest, new-season corn gradually comes onto the market. It costs less than old-crop corn, so many pig farms switch to it without a second thought. But every year around this time, some farms run into trouble: pigs get diarrhea, grow slowly, sows miscarry, and antibody levels fail…
The Ogun State Government has urged pig farmers to comply strictly with internationally recognised biosecurity measures to curb the spread of African swine fever (ASF) and ensure that suspected outbreaks are properly reported and confirmed. The warning follows claims by farmers that the disease has…
