How to Care for Pregnant Animals
Needs of Pregnant Animals The needs of pregnant animals are different from male and non-pregnant animals. First and foremost, it’s highly necessary to keep records of your pregnant animals from …
Animal Health
12 Common Poultry Diseases and How to Deal With Them
All poultry farmers love to see their chickens doing fine every day. As a chicken farmer, how do you feel whenever you enter the pen of your chickens are you …
Vaccination Programme / Schedule for Goat, Sheep & Cattle
The vaccination schedules or programmes for goat, sheep and cattle are presented in the tables below. Administer each vaccine according to what is on the table.
Vaccination Schedule for KARI Improved Kienyeji Chicken
Vaccination is very important in livestock production, especially in poultry production. Poultry farmers should vaccinate their flock (broiler, pullets, layers, kienyeji, turkeys, duck, geese, etc.) against diseases to avoid losing …
Coccidiosis in Poultry: Signs, Control & Prevention
What is Coccidiosis? Coccidiosis or Cocci in poultry is an important protozoan disease that is capable of wiping out a large number of affected chickens overnight. Coccidiosis affecting poultry birds …
Prolapse in Layers: Causes & Prevention
Prolapse (pick out) is the turning inside out of the oviduct and rectal organs through the vent, to the extent of not retracting back. Its occurrence may result in death. …
Reasons for Vaccine Failure
Poultry farmers sometimes experience vaccine failures and their birds come down with the diseases against which they were vaccinated for. There are many factors that could prevent a vaccine from …
How to Vaccinate Chickens, Turkeys & Other Poultry Birds
Vaccines have contributed immensely to the prevention and control of major diseases of chickens and other poultry birds that were previously incurable or difficult to cure. Most commercial poultry farmers, …
Disease Vaccines – Everything You Need to Know
The implications of an outbreak of the diseases are very serious and result in a heavy economic loss. Though, vaccines give proper protection to the host, provided they are used …
Poultry Diseases that are Rampant in the Cold or Wet Season
Poultry birds and poultry production are generally affected by seasonal climatic or weather changes. For instance, in the wet or cold season, chickens eat more feed, drink less water and …
