Diseases are a major constraint in chicken production but these can be treated naturally.
When your bird is poisoned, crush charcoal and put it into drinking water. The charcoal helps to absorb all the toxins in the poisons. To treat birds with flu like symptoms, treat them using coliflox and interflox, and you should also ensure that you provide enough warmth in your chicken house and also provide adequate ventilation to avoid suffocation. Red or bloody droppings. This is in most cases coccidiosis and can be treated using sulphur based drugs like sulphur cox. You can also crush either aloe Vera or chilli but not both into drinking water. Prevention is by ensuring that your beddings are always dry.
Other diseases treatments
Sores/ blisters around their eyes. This is mainly caused by fowl pox, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and can be treated using nemovit or sulphur cox. Control mosquitoes to minimize spread of the disease.
Worms in their droppings can be controlled naturally by putting chilli n their drinking water. Deworm your chicks at intervals of 8 weeks.
Controlling drop of eggs in laying chicken is by ensuring that the chicken feed properly because improper feeding causes weight loss and once chicken have a weight of less than 1.5 kg will not lay. Also give your chicken egg boosters.
Green diarrhoea, if sick then the chicken is not eating properly. This is treated by providing the birds with aloe Vera put in water or boosting birds‘ appetite with ginger.
Heat stress; this is manifested through panting and difficulty in breathing. This can be treated by providing chicken with enough cold water and a lot of electrolytes, also avoid over crowding of birds.
Huge livers; this is caused ascites and is caused by poor ventilation and temperature management especially during brooding. This is managed by ensuring proper stocking rate.
