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Do Immuno-Modulators Promotes Chicken Health?

Pravin

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Livestock Farmer
In large scale intensive poultry production, only fast growing and high yielding hybrid birds are reared; which are generally more prone for infections, due to lesser disease resistance power and break down of immunity. Well developed immunity is very much important to increase the general disease resistance power of the birds and thereby improve its productivity. Therefore in commercial poultry production, the farmer must pay maximum attention, to develop immunity in the flock. Hence the farmer has to take into consideration several measures, not only to prevent break down of immunity, but also to boost the immunity building process. Vaccination alone is not sufficient to boost immunity. Moreover, they are specific for a particular disease and vaccines are not available for many diseases. Vaccination failures and break down of immunity are more common, due to improper vaccination, poor nutrition, mycotoxins, stress of various kinds, overcrowding, insufficient ventilation, poor flock management, improper housing, poor quality drinking water and many more reasons. There are several immunosuppressive diseases; which will not only cause that particular disease; but also results in general breakdown of immunity. Overall general immunity will not only prevent disease outbreaks, but also results in higher rate of production. Nutritionally balanced, toxin-free feed along with use of immunomodulators in poultry feed will boost the immunity in the poultry.

Need of Immunomodulators in poultry feed under stress conditions

In poultry, homeostasis results in physiological changes of an individual causing stress reduces the overall performance. Various kinds of stress among which, heat stress is more common and badly affects bird performance if proper nutritional and managemental care is not taken into consideration. The heat stressed birds may fall short to perform with respect to the body weight, feed efficiency, laying performance and mortality. However, the heat stress susceptibility of a breed depends upon various factors such as strain, feathering pattern, nutritional plane and production system. Further, it can be considered as a factor responsible for immune suppression in birds, resulting in infectious diseases and reduced performance in the flock. This causes potential economic losses and the farmer need to face the debts in the business. So, to counteract this heat stress induced immune suppression, one should follow certain strategies including supplementation of some nutrients like vitamins, minerals, electrolytes and some additives like probiotics, prebiotics, essential oils, polyherbal preparations, aspirin, betaine, systemic enzymes and acetic acid. These substances bring about the change in the internal environment of gastrointestinal tract and enhances the immunity.
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

Farming and Countryside Programme Director, Janet Hughes will be joined by policy leads working on SFI, and colleagues from the Rural Payment Agency and Catchment Sensitive Farming.

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