In the process of raising ducks, many farmers will suddenly find that a duck is in a daze, neck retracted, crooked neck, unsteady standing, and loss of appetite. So, what exactly causes ducks to have this symptom? And how to prevent it?
The prevention and treatment of duckling serositis requires comprehensive measures:
1. Medication prevention: It is used in the opening medicine of ducklings: Jiang'an Swordsman, which can effectively reduce the occurrence of serositis.
2. Do a good job of isolation and treatment: If a duckling is found to be suffering from serositis, it should be isolated and treated immediately to prevent the spread of the disease. You can use the formula: An Swordsman + Qingjie Swordsman + Enrofloxacin, which can effectively control the continuous development of the disease and control the casualties of ducklings.
3. Provide clean drinking water and feed: Ensure that the ducklings are provided with clean and fresh drinking water and feed. Clean your drinking and feeder regularly to avoid the growth and spread of bacteria.
4. Provide a good feeding environment: keep the duck house clean and dry, ensure good ventilation, and avoid overcrowding to reduce the risk of disease transmission.
5. Vaccination: According to the local sesitis epidemic, vaccinate the ducks with appropriate vaccines in time to improve the immunity of the ducklings and reduce the risk of infection.
This symptom is most likely due to duckling's infectious seromanitis. The incubation period of serositis is 1~3 days, and some can be as long as 7 days.
Acute infection of ducklings has a short course of illness, often showing symptoms such as mental depression, neck shrinkage, lethargy, mouth arching, weak legs, reluctance to move, ataxia, no or little food, eye discharge, often feather adhesion around the eyes, nostrils discharge, yellow-green feces, abdominal distension and other symptoms. Before death, the sick duck had spasms, shook its head, had its back and neck, and its legs were stretched out and showed angular arch reflexion.
Subacute or chronic infection of ducklings, the course of the disease can reach more than a week, sick ducks are depressed, eat little or no food, lie on the ground, unwilling to move, feet are soft and weak, the skin is shriveled, arthritis. canine sitting posture, dyspnea, ataxia, torticollis, circulating, regression, emaciation.
To sum up, ducklings have crooked necks, paralysis, unable to stand up symptoms are likely to be caused by serositis, serositis in the duckling brooding stage incidence is very high, the harm is relatively large, once it occurs often causes huge harm, we farmers must strengthen the prevention and control of the disease, to learn to diagnose and identify the disease, once the onset of timely measures to control, reduce the harm of the disease to the duck breeding industry.