Fowl Cholera in poultry

Dr Charles Ibe,
when the disease strikes you should go for specific type.
if my farm is healthy and want to avoid the 1st outbreak, we have to choose multistage vaccine, the best out of the available. Opinion of the farmers who are using successful will help
Successful vaccine companies consider many variants.
I will not wait for first out break also.

Although farmers are using probiotics both in feed as well in water but results are up to the desirables levels.

drkotaiah indbro
Thank you for your comment, prevention they say is better than cure, so I expect that you should adopt the probiotic approach to sustain intestinal health if your stock, Strengthening their humoral and innate immune responses
When you adopt this prophylactic approach you will the pathogens resistance level of your flock and reduce their vulnerabilities to heavy bacteria infections.
The above is the beauty of the rationale for the use of probiotics and not to wait for the flock to come down heavily bacteria infections, only to result to use probiotic as chemotherapy.
You may not get the best result if you use probiotics this way.

Yosef Huberman
True only healthy birds are to be vaccinated. The disease spreads slowly in cages with nipple drinking system. We go for feed medication of smp+tmp for a period of 10 days which holds the mortality under check. Killed Bactrim takes over after 10 days, depending on the situation we have to go for practical solutions on a flock to flock basis. Vaccination does help in first time outbreak when detected on the first incidence,
definitely for neighboring houses where the problem is yet to start.
Be sure I don't sell vaccines or probiotics.
Thank you,
Dr. Kotaiah.

Dr. Charles Ibe, thanks a lot.

Uwalaka Chinomso
Broilers are being killed in less than 40 days. There is very little chance of getting fowl cholera in broilers with all in all out rearing and with nominal biosecurity

I think that the use of probiotics is very important, but cannot stand for its own in Animal Health. This should be discussed in another forum. As far as I know, probiotics will not contribute directly to control FC, but will do improve general health.

Yosef Huberman
True. Poultry production is getting squeezed between increasing input prices with marginal increase in chicken and egg prices all over the world. welfare compliance is being forced on the animal farming. This will increase the production cost further. probiotics, acidifiers gut heath enhancers herbal products are scientifically proved to enhance the general health which is statistically significant, strict biosecurity all-in all-out housing gaps between flocks and vaccination are giving perceivable benefits. As veterinarians, the diseases should be prevented and treated with specific approach.

Folarin Fale
Hello and thank you for your question. These two diseases, Fowl Cholera and Fowl Typhoid, are very different and are caused by Pasteurella multocida or Salmonella Gallinarum, respectively.
For antibiotic treatment you should always try to, first, isolate the bacteria and ask for your lab to perform antibiotic sensitivity tests before applying any treatment.
Results may change in different countries / regions, and are highly influenced by the antibiotics that were used before and due to great differences between bacteria.
This was you can use the right antibiotic and as well, reduce the chance to create a multi resistant bacteria.

Yosef Huberman nice respond sir, but some small farmers don't have the access to lab for sensitivity they always assume or try an error by using any antibiotic.

Dr.Talapaneni.Kotaiah thank you for your comments. These two diseases are commonly associated, and a good bacterin, preferably with local strains, will work well.