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Even though you take the best care and precautions for your birds, a 5% early chicken mortality rate is common in all poultry farms. To sustain this nominal rate or to reduce this 5% rate to 3%, vaccination for chicken is important on time.
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Causes of Early Chick Mortality & 14 Ways to Reduce the Mortality
As we all know chicks are very frail when they are just born and a few weeks after their birth. To keep them healthy and to ensure they are of the best quality is very important. Even though you take the best care and precautions for your birds, a 5% early chicken mortality rate is common in all poultry farms. To sustain this nominal rate or to reduce this 5% rate to 3%, vaccination for chicken is important on time. A few more reasons like low and high brooding temperature, poisoning, humidity, litter contamination, genetic, disease, management, carelessness and Nutritional etc. causes early chicken mortality. • Here are 14 ways to reduce early chick mortality: • Regular check-up of your flock from a good vet. • Follow the vet’s tips for proper medication and Vaccination for chicken. • Feed sufficient food to your birds as and when required. • Keep the poultry neat, clean, and sanitized. • Give them water to drink before and after feeding them. • Do not allow other animals or birds to enter the coop, thereby reducing the risk of cross-contamination. • Treat and prevent farm birds from infection or any other disease. • Feed fresh food to the chickens. • Do not keep the farm congested.
10. Try to keep each bird clean daily. • 11. Keep good shelter management for all seasons. • Have a good Air purifier and temperature manager machine. • Before and After transporting birds, check the health status. • Buy chicks from trusted and Authentic legal suppliers. • If the mortality rate is more than 5%, you need to look into it and take some action at the earliest. But by taking the above suggestions and implementing them in your poultry, early chicken mortality rate and the normal mortality rate is going to be 5% or below 5% for sure. These 14 ways to reduce chicken mortality also helps your business gaining profits, thereby getting a sustainable turnover. According to general research and Vet guidelines, these are causes for early chicken mortality and 14 ways to reduce the mortality.