When new chicks are entered, they should use opening medicine, which has almost become the consensus of farmers. However, in reality, some small-scale farmers may not pay much attention to the use of opening drugs, resulting in frequent diarrhea and other problems in chickens, which has caused certain economic losses to farmers. Today we will introduce to you the necessity of opening drugs for chickens and the specific choice of opening drugs, I hope it can help you.
1. How to choose the opening medicine for chicks?
1. Nutritional additives
Nutritional additives mainly refer to additives containing a variety of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other substances, the use of these nutritional additives as opening drugs, can enhance the body metabolism of chicks to a certain extent, and enhance the disease resistance of chicks. For example, we can use: Wei Mine Swordsman, to supplement the body with a variety of vitamins and amino acids to enhance the resistance of chickens.
2. Traditional Chinese medicine
Compared with antibiotics, traditional Chinese medicine is not resistant and resistant, so it is a good choice. For example, we can use: muscular swordsman to regulate the stomach and intestines of chicks, ensure the healthy development of the digestive system, and prevent and treat muscular gastritis and glandulitis caused by chicks coming out of the shell.
3. Aminoglycosides
The common ones are gentamicin, neomycin, etc., the advantage is that the enteritis effect of chicks is good, and the disadvantage is that the absorption rate is low when drinking water, and the concentration of intestinal drugs is high, which will cause irreversible nephrotoxicity to chickens and affect the lifelong production performance of chickens.
4. Chloramphenicol
The common one is florfenicol, which can purify Salmonella, but the disadvantage is that florfenicol will cause hematopoietic failure of chicken bone marrow and form immunosuppression.
5. Quinolones
Enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin are commonly used, which have the advantage of less damage to the organs of chicks and the disadvantage of drug resistance.
2. Why do chicks use opening medicine?
The opening drug is a drug that the chick needs to add when they start drinking water for the first time, and at first it is an antibiotic drug, and then gradually increases glucose, multi-vitamin and other nutrients. These are used as prescribing drugs mainly because the newly hatched chicks are not fully developed, have very low immunity, and are very susceptible to a wide range of germs present in the environment as well as diseases that are transmitted vertically through the mother. Therefore, we need to feed the chick with opening medicine when it opens its mouth to improve the chick's physique, reduce mortality, and prevent the infection of bacteria, mold and other germs.
The above is an introduction to the importance of using opening drugs and the choice of medication for chicks, I hope it will be helpful to you. Follow me and learn the knowledge and technology of poultry farming every day!