03/10/2024
BLOODY P**P COCCIDIOSIS
Coccidiosis is one of the most severe health problems of poultry.
Birds of all ages are at risk but growing birds between 3 to 5 weeks seem to be most vulnerable.
The disease is spread from one animal to another by contact with infected faeces or ingestion of infected tissue.
Detecting Coccidiosis
Blood stained droppings is a primary indication of the presence of coccidiosis.
Other symptoms include unwillingness to eat, severe weight loss, paleness, ruffled feathers, depression, huddling, and watery or bloody diarrhea.
Physically, the birds may look like that one in the attached picture.
Preventing Coccidiosis
Before any disease can emerge, three conditions must be met. First, there must be an infectious pathogen, then a favourable environment for it to thrive and then a host (your chicken).
The pathogen causing Coccidiosis grows, reproduces and survives in damp and warm litter.
Once you let your poultry litter stay wet and sticky, you automatically create the environment for coccidia to sprout, grow and become infective.
Your birds pick up these sprouted coccidia oocytes as they peck on the floor and become infected
Birds that are infected also pass out thousands of coccidia eggs in their p**p. Other birds can pick these eggs and also become infected
The way to prevent coccidiosis from occurring is to keep your floor dry and clean.
Clean up water spillage immediately
Make sure the drinkers are not leaking and that birds cannot p**p in their feeders and drinkers.
Ensure to change your litter as often as necessary.
Drugs For Treating Coccidiosis Are:
Embazin forte, Adacox, Diclosol, Kepcox, Amprolium, Coccinor, Centre-Dicox. The list is endless.
Organic Treatment/Prevention Of Coccidiosis
Bitter leaf is used in its liquid form to prevent and treat coccidiosis. This is how to prepare it.
i. Gather some bitter leaves. The quantity depends on the volume of juice you are hoping to get and the number of chickens you want to treat.
ii. Remove the leaves from the stem and rinse them in a bowl to remove sand and dirt.
iii. Put the leaves in a mortar or kitchen blender and add just a little water. Just enough water to pound or blend the leaves easily. What you need is a juice that is as thick as 5 Alive, so don’t add too much water at this stage.
iv. Use a cheese cloth to sieve the juice into a container.
If you have followed the process carefully, the bitter leaf extract should be as thick as 5 Alive juice.
Dosage:
Prevention: 20ml per liter of drinking water three mornings in a week
Treatment: 30-40ml per liter of drinking water for treatment. Give them for 5 consecutive days
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