Chicken wheezing and difficulty breathing | Symptoms|How to prevent disease?

If not detected and treated promptly, wheezing in chickens will become more severe, causing difficulty breathing, phlegm and runny nose. More dangerously, if the best treatment is not found, it will lead to weakness, weight loss and even death in chickens. All the information shared in today's article will help you find the best way to treat wheezing in chickens.

Why do chickens wheeze?

Wheezing in chickens comes from many different causes, the most common of which is from Mycoplasma Galliseptium bacteria that develop in an environment where the weather changes suddenly and the chickens are not vaccinated or do not have the best nutrition, leading to Mycoplasma bacteria growing strongly and causing disease.

Mycoplasma bacteria are very contagious, although they can only live for 1-3 days when out of the body, they can survive in mucus for 4-5 days, especially in the egg yolk environment, they can survive for 18 days.

Is wheezing contagious in chickens?

The rate of infection in chickens with wheezing is quite high, coming from the following ways:

➻Sick chickens release bacteria into the air, thereby infecting other individuals in the flock. Especially when sharing food and tools, this is the strongest cause of infection.

➻ Chicken wheezing is also transmitted from mother to child, that is, when the mother hen is sick and lays eggs, it will be transmitted to the child.

➻ Even if the chicken with wheezing has not been cured, the bacteria still in the body, if there are favorable conditions, will break out and multiply quickly, causing the chicken to become sick.

Symptoms of severe wheezing in chickens

Chickens with severe wheezing will experience the following symptoms:

Broilers: Diarrhea with green and white stools, this is the most obvious symptom when the chicken is about 4 - 8 weeks old. During this stage, the chicken is always tired, has poor appetite, is lethargic, drools, has swollen eyes, watery eyes, etc.

Laying hens: Wheezing in laying hens often occurs during the changing seasons, when the weather is erratic, or can also occur after beak trimming. Common symptoms are thinness, weakness, picky eating, low egg production, and low hatching rate.

The best way to minimize the harmful effects of chicken wheezing is to prevent and increase their resistance. Apply the following measures:

➻Always keep the coop clean and airy, regularly use disinfectants.

➻Vaccinate chickens fully

➻Use supportive drugs to increase resistance to help pets stay healthy.

➻Make sure the coop is always warm and windproof during the changing seasons

➻When detecting chickens with wheezing, farmers need to separate the flock and take timely isolation measures to ensure that it does not spread

Hopefully, the above sharing will help farmers better understand the disease of severe wheezing and difficulty breathing in chickens as well as the best treatment and prevention methods. Wish farmers success, do not forget to come back to our website every day to update more valuable information.