Gastroenteritis is high happening in broilers in summer, pay attention to prevention and control!

Gastroenteritis in broilers will affect the growth of broilers, leading to weight loss. At present, there is no drug to treat this disease, but it can be treated with symptomatic drugs and can have a certain effect, but it is easy to relapse and the course of the disease is longer. Therefore, we must not only understand the symptoms of the disease and control the condition in time, but also strengthen prevention in peacetime to avoid the occurrence of this disease.

How is broiler gastritis caused?

1. When broiler chickens are reared, heat stress from external conditions will increase the body temperature of broiler chickens, which will accelerate the deterioration of feed in the stomach.

2. Because the breeding broilers grow too fast, the digestibility of feed must be obviously improved. The crude fiber content is relatively low. The broilers are not hungry, and there is no emptying of the glandular stomach and muscular stomach. Over time, these organs have not been well exercised and maintained, so the function of these organs will be significantly reduced. This is an important reason for the high incidence of true adenitis.

3. Poor management of early brooding when raising chicks will directly affect the development of the glandular stomach, and it is also a factor that cannot be ignored in the occurrence of glandular gastritis.

4. The chicks were infected with mold when they hatched, and some problems appeared during long-distance transportation. These severely affected the early development of the proventriculus and musculostomia.

5. Another factor is that broiler chickens only get some diseases. The sequelae of some diseases can also cause the occurrence of gastroenteritis. For example, infectious bronchitis virus, infectious bursal bursal virus, reticuloendotheliosis virus, avian infectious anemia virus, reovirus, Escherichia coli, Salmonella, etc.

How to control broiler gastritis?

For the treatment of gastroenteritis, no special medicine has been found for the disease, and there is no vaccine for the disease, so immunization is not possible. This requires breeding and management personnel to do a good job in immunization of other vaccines, and do a good job in daily sanitation and disinfection, improve feed levels, control mold infections, and take comprehensive prevention and control measures to effectively prevent the occurrence of gastritis.

The prevention of gastroenteritis requires strengthening of daily feeding management and comprehensive prevention and treatment measures. Close the chickens and introduce chickens from regular breeder farms to ensure the quality of chickens and prevent the vertical transmission of diseases such as gastroenteritis. Avoid feeding moist and moldy feeds. The feeds purchased by the farmers are required to be used up within 5 days. The place where the feeds are placed should be kept as ventilated and dry as possible, and a mold release agent should be added to the feeds; increase the number of feedings and wait for the chickens to eat clean feed. Add the feed in the trough afterwards to prevent the feed from staying in the trough for too long. For broilers within 30 days of age, feed for 2 hours per day. After the broilers are empty, the proventriculus and muscular stomach are emptied, which promotes the discharge of harmful substances accumulated in the proventriculus and muscular stomach for a long time. The glandular stomach and muscular stomach will be exercised and maintained every day, which can not only prevent glandular gastritis but also reduce the mortality rate caused by ascites and sudden death in the later stage.