Know the diseases from manure

Poultry’s manure is not only the secretion of the digestive tract, but also the excretion of urine system, normal manure is tangible but not hard, its shape is slightly fried dough twist pattern of torsion. Present grayish brown or grayish yellow color, adsorbed with white urate deposition in the surface of excrement.

When the feed formula changes cause feed nutrition changes, drinking water and water ion content changes, drug delivery, poisoning and so on, all can lead to manure shape and color changes. When the organism is attacked by pathogenic bacteria (bacteria), the normal metabolism will be disordered, and the metabolites change qualitatively.

On the other hand, the pathogen directly works on the digestive tract and urine system will cause the manure changes more apparently. If the breeder observe the manure condition of the chickens every day, we can know the health status of chicken and also do some preliminary diagnose and Prevention for chicken diseases from their manure abnormal color and texture.

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White dilute manure

1) if white manure with a small lime paste, it is urate increase, mainly composed of urate. Reasons: excessive calcium or kidney type transmission, or feeding high protein feed.

2) dysentery manure. Salmonella pullorum especially bacteria multiply in the cecum,will inhibit the useful intestinal bacteria, and the normal manure change to white color due to catalase.

3) if the manure looks like milk, may be Vibrio hepatitis, brittleness, bleeding, abdominal cavity blood.   

4) if the manure looks like white water, may be colibacillosis,it is also called Egg production decline syndrome. The egg production decline syndrome also showed a sudden less in egg production, accompanied by soft shell eggs, thin shell eggs, color fading eggs.

5) if the manure looks like albumen,may be infectious bursal. Such as pectoral muscle, leg muscle, strip bleeding, big cyst of law, can be diagnosed as IBD.

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