{"id":83590,"date":"2017-09-01T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/?p=83590"},"modified":"2025-08-24T21:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T14:27:20","slug":"ayam-kerdil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/info-medion\/dwarf-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwarf Chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Meris<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Riau<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time DOC came, physically look active and agile. But after the age of 15 days my chickens do not grow normal or stunted. This has already happened in 2 times the maintenance period. At the age of 27 days of carcass surgery, pale liver, intestines filled with watery yellow liquid and gizzard<\/em> there is an undigested ration and there are black grains like stones. What diseases attack? How to handle it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accept<\/em> Dear Mr. Meris, for your question. First we will discuss the causes of dwarfism in chickens. Dwarf-bodied chickens can actually be caused by several factors, such as:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Quality DOC. The quality of DOC can be influenced by genetic factors, small hatching eggs from young parents (less than 25 weeks), maternal antibodies against\u00a0Reovirus<\/em>\u00a0low, nor the parent of a positive DOC infected with bacteria\u00a0Salmonela enteridis<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Management factors. Time\u00a0brooding period,<\/em>\u00a0very influential on the growth of chickens because of the development of all organ cells, such as the immune system, digestion, respiration and thermoregulation. Examples of current ration availability\u00a0chick in<\/em>\u00a0and achieved\u00a0feed intake<\/em>\u00a0will affect the size and length of the intestine.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Ration factor. The quality and quantity of the ration has an effect on the growth of chickens. The quality of rations can be reduced due to the presence of fungi and mycotoxins that can reduce nutrient content. In addition, the presence of mycotoxins can irritate the digestive tract so that the process of absorption of nutrients in the chicken's body is not optimal. In addition to the quality of the ration, the lack of quantity\/amount of ration intake and drinking will cause competition between chickens. The impact is that the amount of ration that enters the chicken's body is less so that the growth of body weight is not uniform.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Stressful conditions. When chickens stress hormone production ACTH (adrenocorticotropic<\/em>\u00a0hormone<\/em>) increases, so that the process of metabolism and absorption of nutrients from the ration becomes not optimal. The lack of appetite of chickens due to stress causes their body weight to be unattainable or not uniform.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Disease attacks that can cause dwarfismOne of the viruses that are often found to cause dwarfism is <\/em>Reovirus<\/em> and the disease is called <\/em>helicopter disease <\/em>or <\/em>Runting and Stunting Syndrome<\/em> (RSS). <\/em>Reovirus<\/em> will infect villi-villi epithelial cells of the small intestine that cause intestinal function disorders such as indigestion and absorption of fat, fat-soluble vitamins and carotene, so that the target body weight is not achieved. <\/em>Helicopter disease<\/em> mainly found in chickens <\/em>broiler<\/em>it can also affect chickens <\/em>layer<\/em> and <\/em>breeder<\/em>. The disease appears from the symptoms of non-uniform growth, with an incubation period (the process of the virus entering until the appearance of clinical symptoms) for 10-14 days.<\/em>In the carcass surgery, it was found that the stomach appeared to expand and Harden (this condition is clearly seen in chickens aged 3-4 weeks). This is due to the fact that the digestive tract contains undigested rations. Enlargement of the proventriculus accompanied by tissue death and bleeding and mild intestinal inflammation. In some cases, infected chickens <\/em>Reovirus <\/em>this indicates a clear change in the color of the carcass meat that appears pale.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Seeing the picture of the condition of the father's chicken is associated with the triggering factors of dwarfism above, the events experienced by the father's chicken leads to disease <\/em>Runting and Stunting Syndrome<\/em>. This is reinforced by the presence of smallness from the age of 15 days (the possibility of chicken infection during DOC, given the long incubation period of 10-14 days) with undigested feed in the proventriculus\/<\/em>gizzard<\/em>. The presence of black grains like stones in <\/em>gizzard<\/em> comes from the form of grit or blood clots that have long been due to bleeding in the proventriculus. In addition, the pale color of the liver can be caused by a lack of supply of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and vitamins for metabolic processes through the bloodstream, due to the lack of food nutrients absorbed in the intestine.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Other specific signs found are abnormal feather growth on the primary wing feathers. In addition, the growth of feathers is also irregular, causing the feathers to appear to stand like a propeller and create the impression as if the chicken looks like a helicopter.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    This dwarfism syndrome can be divided into 2 categories, namely the category runting <\/em>(penularan ayam ke ayam) dengan kasus <5% dari populasi. Sedangkan kategori stunting <\/em>the figure can reach 50% (in the range of 5-50%) of the population. If in the case of stunting<\/em> it was found that the body weight of chickens is very far from the standard because of dwarf chickens since they hatched, so it is better to do an early harvest of whole chickens. Meanwhile, in the case of runting<\/em> syndrome <\/em>it is generally associated with maintenance management. On farms with good management, usually the percentage of cases runting<\/em> relatively small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    If the case of dwarfism is still in the category <\/em>runting<\/em>, immediately do the selection (<\/em>culling<\/em>) and reject chickens that look stunted, especially those whose weight is 40% below the standard. While dwarf chickens with a body weight that is not too far less than the standard, can be separated and then given special treatment, including:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • For example, the number of amino acids and minerals (<\/em>Mix Plus <\/strong><\/em>or <\/em>Top Mix<\/strong><\/em>) to spur optimal growth until body weight reaches 1-1 .2 kg and chickens are worth harvesting.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • The use of anti-inflammatory drugs (<\/em>Amoxitin<\/strong><\/em>, <\/em>Neo Meditril<\/strong><\/em> or <\/em>Collimezyn<\/strong><\/em>).<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • The best way to increase muscle mass is to increase muscle mass (<\/em>Neobro<\/strong><\/em>, <\/em>Broiler Vita<\/strong><\/em> or <\/em>Fortevit<\/strong><\/em>).<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Regular sanitation and disinfection of the cage<\/em> (Antisep or forms<\/strong><\/em> when the cage is empty).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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      Bapak Meris Riau Pada waktu DOC datang, secara fisik terlihat aktif dan lincah. Namun setelah umur 15 hari ayam saya tidak tumbuh normal atau kerdil. Hal ini sudah terjadi dalam 2 kali periode pemeliharaan. Pada umur 27 hari dilakukan bedah bangkai, terlihat hati pucat, usus berisi cairan kuning encer dan gizzard terdapat ransum yang belum tercerna dan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,228],"tags":[913],"class_list":["post-83590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info-medion","category-ayam-broiler","tag-konsultasi-teknis"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83590"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84231,"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83590\/revisions\/84231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.medion.co.id\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}