Necrotic enteritis is one of the world’s most common and financially crippling poultry diseases affecting approximately 40% of commercial broiler flocks. Clinical outbreaks can cause mortality rates of up to 50% and has been estimated to cost the global broiler industry upwards of $5-6 billion annually. However, it is the sub-clinical form that often goes undetected and thus, untreated.
Necrotic enteritis can lead to a significant effect on performance through its ability to impair nutrient absorption, growth rate, and feed conversion as well as animal welfare, and likely causes a far greater impact on profitability than the clinical disease.
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS
Necrotic enteritis is a result of a Gram-positive bacteria that is considered a member of the normal intestinal microbiota. Several factors can have a considerable impact on the proliferation of C. perfringens, including management practices, nutritional factors, coccidiosis, and mycotoxin contamination
It’s a disease caused by several factors;
❇Coccidiosis disease, that leads to reduced intestinal integrity, leading to protein leakage.
❇Mycotoxins
❇Low quality proteins in feeds, that leads to low or poor amino acid digestibilty, thus reduced nutrient absorption, leading to increased protein availability in the intestines.
Early signs of the disease are often wet litter and diarrhoea, and an increase in mortality, that may not be significant. However, the depression of growth rate and feed efficiency of birds become noticeable by day 35 in boilers and 3 months in layers due to intestinal damage and the subsequent reduction in digestion and absorption of food.
Prevention
- Giving birds a well formulated feed with the required protein levels. CONVERSION FEEDS, provides good quality feed for poultry, call 0703879264 0393224318 for more information.
- Always involve toxin binders in the in feeds to reduce on mycotoxins, for those on local mixing.
- Prevent and control coccidiosis immediately, please treat t immediately with TOLTRAZURIL or ANTICOX before it becomes chronic.
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