Chicken "cecal ball worm" and "cecal hepatitis", clinical how to differentiate, how to prevent and cure again?

Summer high temperature humid, it is the season with high incidence of poultry parasitic disease. Cecum ball and cecum hepatitis parasitic disease belong to birds, because the two disease can lead to disease chicken hemorrhage, and the main pathological changes is the same, and far more common in chicken caecum ball insect, bloody stool dead chicken, chicken farmers often consider hot chicken caecum ball insect, and ignore the cecum hepatitis with the same symptoms, and cause the disease. Write this article, want to tell everybody, high temperature many rainy day parasitic disease is many, should pay attention to the differential diagnosis chicken cecal coccidiosis and cecal hepatitis, and master the prevention and control measures.

One, how to distinguish chicken cecal coccidiosis and cecal hepatitis?

1, the difference between the body surface

Although infected with cecum coccidiosis and cecal hepatitis of the sick chicken will discharge with blood stool, but infected with cecal hepatitis of the sick chicken will also discharge light yellow like sulfur like stool, and the sick chicken in the late stage of the disease, its head and comb purple or black, commonly known as "blackhead", which is different from cecum coccidiosis.

2. Differences of anatomical lesions

Both coccidiococcal and cecal hepatitis have enlarged cecum to 2-3 times normal size, and the cecum is filled with blood. But compare with cecal coccidiosis, the cecal of cecal hepatitis increases thick and tight more, touch of hard, show sausage form. And cecal hepatitis besides cecum outside, its liver also can be swollen, the surface has the circle that edge bulges, middle depression or irregular form ulcer kitchen, show yellow-green, distribute at whole liver, this is the main distinction with cecal coccidia.

3, the difference of the characteristics of the disease

In terms of the age of onset, coccidiococci in chickens mostly occurred in chicks aged from 3 to 6 weeks, while cecal hepatitis mainly occurred in young chickens aged from 8 to 16 weeks. Cecal coccidiosis can occur in both cage laying hens and free-range chickens, and cecal hepatitis is more likely to occur in free-range chickens in the field, especially chickens that feed on earthworms after rain.

Two, how to prevent chicken cecal coccidia and cecal hepatitis?

1. Suggestions on prevention of coccidiosis in chicken cecum

First of all, strengthen the environmental management of the chicken house, keep the chicken house dry, ventilated and chicken house health, frequently clean up chicken manure, feces concentrated accumulation of fermentation, kill the egg sac, reduce the spread and infection of the egg parasite. Supplementary vitamin K and vitamin A were added in the feed to accelerate the recovery of chicken coccidiosis.

Secondly, attention should be paid to drug administration and prevention in the susceptible age and susceptible season. From 15 days of age, 100 mg of chloropropanoline was added per kg of feed for 45 days. Or the traditional Chinese medicine Quqiu San is composed of 2500 grams of Changshan, 900 grams of Chaihu, 1850 grams of Radix flavescens, 1000 grams of Artemisia annua, 900 grams of Diyu charcoal, and 900 grams of Baimao root. At the age of 15 days, mix the mixture in the proportion of 0.5% and use it continuously for 5 days, with an interval of one week, and then use it for 5 days.

2. Suggestions on prevention of chicken cecal hepatitis

First of all, strengthen environmental management, reduce the number of eggs, flies, earthworms in the chicken farm environment, ensure that the chicken house clean and dry, as far as possible to adopt cage or net breeding, do not let the chicken contact the ground, in order to reduce the chance of transmission of infection. In addition, adult chickens and chicks are reared separately to avoid adult recessive infection resulting in chick infection of the disease.

The treatment of chicken cecal coccidiosis and cecal hepatitis

1, the treatment of chicken cecum coccidiosis

Chicks were given less commonly used anti-coccidiococcal drugs: a. Deczulli was added with 1 mg of chlorpropanoline per kg of feed for 5 consecutive days; B. Use totricuride in 7 mg /kg mixture or 25 mg /kg drinking water for 2 days; C, chloropropanoline, 250-500 mg /kg, first used for 1 week, and then reduced to do for 2 weeks; D, xanthone (Sudan) : according to 3 mg /kg mix free intake.

Traditional Chinese medicine is used for laying hens to resist coccidium, such as Coccidium Root Powder, which consists of Artemisia annua 3000 grams, Radix Crane Herb 500 grams, Polygonum multiflorum 500 grams, Radix Pulsatilla 300 grams, and Cinnamon 260 grams. Mix the mixture according to the proportion of 1%, and use for 5 days continuously, 7 days interval, and 5 days more.

2. Treatment of chicken cecal hepatitis

Chicks were given metronidazole to drink in 0.05% aqueous solution for 7 consecutive days at an interval of 3 days and then for another 7 days. At the same time, supplement vitamin K3 powder, cod liver oil, to repair intestinal tract, liver damage.

Lying hens, treated with traditional Chinese medicine, gentian (stir-fried with wine), gardenia (stir-fried with wine), scutellaria, bupleurum, raw soil, plantains seed, alisma, wood root, licorice, angelica 20 grams, decocted juice or mix, for 100 chickens.

This article, want to tell the chicken friends, high temperature and humidity, not only easy to cause the chicken infected with coccidiococci blood stool, but also easy to induce the same symptoms of cecal hepatitis. So, even if you encounter the sick chicken that looks like chicken coccidia, also want to pay attention to the differentiation with cecal hepatitis, avoid to cause misdiagnosis and mistreatment, delay the disease. In addition, in the summer of drug prevention, pay attention to drug rotation, every 3-6 months to change to a drug, to avoid drug resistance, to ensure the effect of drug use.