Handling pale chickens and pecking feet

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What are the causes of pale chickens, and usually peck at the legs, what is the solution?

Answer:

Thank you for the submitted question. Looking at the clinical symptoms, it is likely that the chicken is experiencing a case of mineral deficiency (deficiency). Pale chicken is caused because chickens lack the mineral Fe or better known as iron. Fe plays an important role in various biochemical reactions in the body of chickens, among others, the main one is in producing red blood cells. Iron serves as an oxygen carrier, not only breathing oxygen towards tissues, but also in tissues or in cells. While the cause of chickens pecking their feet is a lack of calcium, phosphorus and other minerals. In addition to pecking their own feet, chickens usually also peck at walls or others. This happens because the chicken is trying to meet the need for minerals.

Some things that must be considered in the face of cases of mineral deficiency include:

• Check the quality and consumption of rations (feed intakeis there a way to set the default value of the company (breeder).
• Make sure the ration management is right, no technical glitches occur (such as chickens lack ration places, late rations are given).
• Trying to “fix " the level uniformity (uniformity) in order to be given special treatment. Chickens that appear to show symptoms of the disease are immediately transferred to a separate flock.
• If the quality of the ration is not good, do ration supplementation to improve the quality of the ration.

A quality ration should have nutrient levels that match the needs of chickens in each period of their development, including mineral content. If it is not of good quality, then cases of nutritional deficiency can arise. In the field itself, if chickens are found to experience symptoms of mineral deficiency cases, then one of the recommended solutions is to add feed supplement into the ration.

In general, the background of the addition feed supplement is:

1. Complements the content of essential nutrients that are often forgotten, including minerals
2. When storage, the possibility of a decrease in the quality of rations due to warehouse storage conditions and quality control it is not suitable for adding feed supplement absolutely necessary
3. When giving rations, there are some rations that are scattered so that supplementation is also needed

In the case of calcium and phosphorus deficiency, it is actually important for farmers to previously ensure that in the formulation of the ration made, the calcium and phosphorus content already meets the standard value of chicken needs, and the ratio of the two minerals is also appropriate. And to find out how many levels, farmers can do laboratory tests of the quality of rations in related institutions or MediLab (Medion Laboratory). Ration raw materials that can be used as a source of calcium and phosphorus in ration formulations include monocalcium phosphate (MCP), dicalcium phosphate (DCP) or rock flour.

However, what needs to be considered in dealing with cases of calcium and phosphorus deficiency is that farmers need to do vitamin d₂ and C supplementation which is very influential on the absorption of calcium and phosphorus in the body of chickens. Because it will be useless if the content of calcium and phosphorus is appropriate, but the auxiliary substances for their absorption, namely vitamins D₂ and C, remain in insufficient quantities.

Furthermore, to overcome and prevent cases of deficiency trace mineral, supplementation trace mineral absolutely necessary. As already explained earlier that the need trace mineral this will increase as the condition of the chicken decreases due to environmental influences. Not only that, there are rarely laboratory testing services related to detecting the content trace mineral this requires that the breeder remains alert to cases of its deficiency, so supplementation is necessary.

Basically, mineral supplementation can be done by farmers in the form of adding a single mineral or all in the form of adding premixes. In the premix, in addition to minerals, there are also other nutrients such as amino acids and various multivitamins. Some Medion mineral supplement products that can be used include Top Mix and Mineral Feed Supplement A. Mineral Feed Supplement A is one of the mineral supplements that contain macro and micro minerals that function to improve egg production and egg quality, help growth, increase egg hatchability and prevent and treat diseases due to mineral deficiency. The important thing to note when we do mineral supplementation is the technique of mixing it into the ration. In mixing such mineral supplements should ensure that all minerals are mixed homogeneously in the ration.