Chicken vaccination

-Chicken vaccination procedure as per ages.

If you are keeping birds for egg production, consider vaccinating against Newcastle Disease (NCD) at the 1st and 3rd week of age, Gumboro  (IBD) at the 2nd and 4th week of age, fowl typhoid at 9thweek and fowl pox at 18 weeks. NCD and IBD vaccination are carried out twice to boost the first vaccination.

Administrations of the vaccines vary from drinking water, spraying, ocular-nasal drops, skin puncture to intramuscular injection. I would recommend use of vaccines administered through drinking water to avoid invasive stressing of the birds and for effective vaccination, withdraw drinking water for about four hours to make the birds thirsty such that upon provision of water mixed with the vaccine, consumption can increase.

On the other hand, broiler vaccination is only done for NCD and IBD similar to layers and should be done during the first month to avoid drug residues on the meat product.

Source: Daily Nation
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