Post by Trade Coach on Dec 1, 2021 15:59:18 GMT 1
What Are The Signs You Will See To Know Your Birds Need To Be Dewormed?
In poultry farming business, one of the best management practices is deworming of your birds.
Worms are parasites, and parasites are a big problem in countries with tropical climates like Nigeria and other West African countries. Animals easily catch parasites from soil and grasses.
By carrying out regular deworming of your birds with chemical or herbal preparations, you will surely reduce the amount of parasites in your birds.
Deworming your birds simply means removing worms from their digestive systems, particularly from their stomach, intestine and liver. Deworming makes your chicken far more resistant to diseases. The process helps the birds grow faster, perform better and produce better meat and eggs.
You deworm your chicken by getting rid or expelling of parasitic worms within the birds' system by giving the birds anthelmintic drugs. This revamps the birds' production potential, thus, bringing the birds back to production in case of a relapse.
One thing you should understand as a poultry farmer is that all birds are susceptible to worm infestation, especially those birds kept under deep litter system of poultry farming.
Also know that younger birds are more vulnerable to worm infestation. Worms are very dangerous and great threat to birds, especially in currently laying birds; if you don’t deal with them fast, they are capable of reducing production drastically.
I have seen some that even caused death due to severe infestation. It may take some time for worm infestation to manifest; a good poultry farm manager should prepare a schedule to deworm the birds at an average of 3 - 4 times in a year. Human beings even deworm at least 4 times in a year.
When the worm infestation is becoming severe birds show some signs; most poultry farmers and farm managers look out for these signs.
You as a poultry or farm manager need to design a proper deworming program to mitigate the effects of these signs because the signs come with great drop in production potential. They render the birds unproductive and it takes extra time and other resources to recuperate the birds from this dangerous threat.
When you observe any of these signs in your birds, you should know immediately that your birds are seriously under the threat of dangerous parasitic worms.
These are:
Symptoms of worm infestation
- Your birds lack vigor.
- They have a poor appetite.
- Your birds’ body weights decrease.
- Your flock’s excreta will show diarrhea with mucus, blood or worms.
- The chicken will have rough hair coat.
- anaemia will show immediately all over the birds.
-There will be drop in egg production.
-Your birds will be sleeping all the time.
- You can have a sharp protruding knee bone from your birds
-Stretching of their necks.
-Vomiting
-Pale colour
Parasites hurt your birds by:
- Absorbing digested nutrients meant for the birds. They end up using the nutrients for themselves while the birds they are meant for starve.
- Sucking their blood. These parasites suck the blood of the birds making them lose blood regularly.
- Causing mechanical obstruction in the chicken.
- Destroying tissue. The birds’ tissues are being destroyed by the effects of the parasites.
- Secreting toxins. These dangerous parasites secrete toxins in the bodies of your systems, and thereby contaminating their bodies.
How do your birds actually pick up these worms?
Birds pick up worms from the floor and ingest or through the droppings of infected birds. Young birds pick up worms easier than the adult birds.
How to prevent worm infestation
• Keep the poultry pen dry always. Worms thrive best in wet and muddy areas.
• Change poultry litter as quick as possible.
• Use biosecurity.
Worms are great threat to poultry production. Prevention is better than cure; these preventive measures should be practiced to keep the flock free from worm.
Eliminating worms from your poultry farm increases birds’ productivity.
Common internal parasites
Roundworms/ascaris: Affect ruminants (cattle, water buffaloes, and goats), pigs and poultry.
Tapeworms: Affect ruminants, pigs and chicken.
Leaf-shaped worms (liver flukes): Affect ruminants.
Characteristics of a good deworming medicine:
- It will not cause poisoning for the birds.
- It can kill various types of worms resident in the system of the birds.
- It is easy to administer by all types of farm workers.
- It is economical and cheap to buy.
- It stays in the tissues for a short period of time, and does not cause any further damage.
In poultry farming business, one of the best management practices is deworming of your birds.
Worms are parasites, and parasites are a big problem in countries with tropical climates like Nigeria and other West African countries. Animals easily catch parasites from soil and grasses.
By carrying out regular deworming of your birds with chemical or herbal preparations, you will surely reduce the amount of parasites in your birds.
Deworming your birds simply means removing worms from their digestive systems, particularly from their stomach, intestine and liver. Deworming makes your chicken far more resistant to diseases. The process helps the birds grow faster, perform better and produce better meat and eggs.
You deworm your chicken by getting rid or expelling of parasitic worms within the birds' system by giving the birds anthelmintic drugs. This revamps the birds' production potential, thus, bringing the birds back to production in case of a relapse.
One thing you should understand as a poultry farmer is that all birds are susceptible to worm infestation, especially those birds kept under deep litter system of poultry farming.
Also know that younger birds are more vulnerable to worm infestation. Worms are very dangerous and great threat to birds, especially in currently laying birds; if you don’t deal with them fast, they are capable of reducing production drastically.
I have seen some that even caused death due to severe infestation. It may take some time for worm infestation to manifest; a good poultry farm manager should prepare a schedule to deworm the birds at an average of 3 - 4 times in a year. Human beings even deworm at least 4 times in a year.
When the worm infestation is becoming severe birds show some signs; most poultry farmers and farm managers look out for these signs.
You as a poultry or farm manager need to design a proper deworming program to mitigate the effects of these signs because the signs come with great drop in production potential. They render the birds unproductive and it takes extra time and other resources to recuperate the birds from this dangerous threat.
When you observe any of these signs in your birds, you should know immediately that your birds are seriously under the threat of dangerous parasitic worms.
These are:
Symptoms of worm infestation
- Your birds lack vigor.
- They have a poor appetite.
- Your birds’ body weights decrease.
- Your flock’s excreta will show diarrhea with mucus, blood or worms.
- The chicken will have rough hair coat.
- anaemia will show immediately all over the birds.
-There will be drop in egg production.
-Your birds will be sleeping all the time.
- You can have a sharp protruding knee bone from your birds
-Stretching of their necks.
-Vomiting
-Pale colour
Parasites hurt your birds by:
- Absorbing digested nutrients meant for the birds. They end up using the nutrients for themselves while the birds they are meant for starve.
- Sucking their blood. These parasites suck the blood of the birds making them lose blood regularly.
- Causing mechanical obstruction in the chicken.
- Destroying tissue. The birds’ tissues are being destroyed by the effects of the parasites.
- Secreting toxins. These dangerous parasites secrete toxins in the bodies of your systems, and thereby contaminating their bodies.
How do your birds actually pick up these worms?
Birds pick up worms from the floor and ingest or through the droppings of infected birds. Young birds pick up worms easier than the adult birds.
How to prevent worm infestation
• Keep the poultry pen dry always. Worms thrive best in wet and muddy areas.
• Change poultry litter as quick as possible.
• Use biosecurity.
Worms are great threat to poultry production. Prevention is better than cure; these preventive measures should be practiced to keep the flock free from worm.
Eliminating worms from your poultry farm increases birds’ productivity.
Common internal parasites
Roundworms/ascaris: Affect ruminants (cattle, water buffaloes, and goats), pigs and poultry.
Tapeworms: Affect ruminants, pigs and chicken.
Leaf-shaped worms (liver flukes): Affect ruminants.
Characteristics of a good deworming medicine:
- It will not cause poisoning for the birds.
- It can kill various types of worms resident in the system of the birds.
- It is easy to administer by all types of farm workers.
- It is economical and cheap to buy.
- It stays in the tissues for a short period of time, and does not cause any further damage.