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Bacterial diseases in poultry
Bacterial diseases comprise approximately half of the non–outbreak-related mortality in broiler breeders and commercial layers. During the first week of a broiler's life, approximately 50% of the mortality may be caused due to bacterial infections. Outbreaks due to bacterial infections may increase the mortality dramatically and in some cases almost eradicate flocks. E. coli and Gram-positive cocci infections are responsible for mortality and production losses in poultry of all age groups and all production systems and may be regarded as multifactorial. Subsequently, efforts in understanding and controlling these infections are highly important. Although necrotic enteritis is primarily a disease affecting young chickens, this infection is of major significance in any production system. Besides increased mortality, the production losses observed in subclinical infections may be dramatic.
Medium-chain fatty acids may be effective at controlling Salmonella bacteria in chickens say researchers from Belgium and the Czech Republic. Their findings appear in the June 2004 issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
The leading cause of food-borne infections in humans, Salmonella bacteria is most commonly associated with poultry.
Currently, short-chain fatty acids are being used to treat chickens and prevent infection. Although they have proven somewhat...
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assalam o alaikum all my friends on this forum. I want to ask one thing more that most often the birds do light yellow droppings and sometimes dark brown droppings in poultry farms but there is not any kind of mortality there. If we say poultry farms to get the birds droppings tested in laboratory,he often hesitates and says that there is no mortality then why should I go for diagnosis? I want to ask that if i should treat for enteritis or coccidiosis if birds do light yellow or dark brown...
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